Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

By Scot Facer Proctor

Religion & Spirituality

What's Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast about?

Each week Meridian Magazine’s founders, Scot and Maurine Proctor, will be giving a 30-minute podcast on the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum for the week. This is so you can listen with your scriptures in hand, or while you are about life’s many other duties. If you want some thoughts about teaching your family or in Church lessons, this can be a place to turn. If you live alone, let us study with you.

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12.06.2021

Dec 6-12 We know that the Prophet Joseph Smith wrote the Articles of Faith as part of a larger request from Mr. John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat, a brand-new newspaper in the young, bustling city of ...

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12.06.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 50, “We Believe” -- Articles of Faith and Official Declaration 1 & 2 Dec 6-12 We know that the Prophet Joseph Smith wrote the Articles of Faith as part of a larger request from Mr. John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat, a brand-new newspaper in the young, bustling city of ...
11.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 49, “The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead” -- D&C 137-138 November 29–December 5 Something surprised Joseph in his vision of the celestial kingdom, and we’ll tell you what that is in this episode.
11.22.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 48, “He Has Sealed His Mission and His Works with His Own Blood” -- D&C 135-136 November 22-28 Maurine and I lead a church history tour every year. We've done this for 30 years. We take our many participants through two days of Revolutionary War and the foundations of freedom. Then we go to Sharon, Vermont ...
11.13.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 47, “Prepare Ye for the Coming of the Bridegroom” -- D&C 133-134 November 15-21 The Book of Mormon is indeed a special witness for our times. It is the story of a people who centered their lives on the prophecies of the coming of a Messiah, who is Jesus Christ the Lord. ...
11.06.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 46, “When We Obtain Any Blessing it is from God” -- D&C 129-132 November 8-14 The lesson we study today has some of the most transcendent and astonishing teachings that Joseph Smith gave us, opening our ideas to what really is in the eternities and how we can obtain the blessings, we desire. ...
10.29.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 45, “A Voice of Gladness for the Living and the Dead” -- D&C 125-128 November 1-7 As the Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel continued to unfold in the early 1840’s, one revealed doctrine thrilled the Latter-day Saints beyond imagination. Yes, there were some references to this doctrine in the Holy Bible, but ...
10.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 44, “A House unto My Name” -- Doctrine & Covenants 124 October 25-31 What happened during the nearly two years that elapsed between the reception of Section 123 and Section 124 of the Doctrine and Covenants? As it turns out, plenty. We’ll talk about that in this episode.
10.15.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 43, “O God, Where Art Thou?” -- Doctrine & Covenants 121-123 October 18-24 So, here’s a question: In the midst of all the challenges, trials, privations and difficulties the Saints experienced in Missouri, how is it that when the Church really needed the leadership of the Prophet Joseph, God allowed him ...
10.08.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 42, “His Sacrifice Shall Be More Sacred unto Me Than His Increase” -- D&C 115-120 October 11-17 I stand in Far West, a rather obscure place in northern Missouri, and as far as I can see, where once there was a bustling community of Latter-day Saints with homes, shops and a school, there are only ...
10.04.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 41, “I Will Order All Things for Your Good” -- Doctrine & Covenants 111-114 October 4-10 As you begin this week’s reading assignment, and you don’t skip over the headnotes in Section 111, you realize this revelation was given in Salem, Massachusetts. Isn’t the central leadership of the Church in Kirtland, Ohio? What is ...
09.24.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 40, “The Spiritual Manifestations in a Holy House” -- D&C 109-110 September 27-October 3 The building of the Kirtland temple marked a pivotal moment in the history of the earth, a time yearned for for centuries, when this key part of the covenant would be restored to the earth. The Lord ...
09.18.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 39, “To Have the Heavens Opened” -- Doctrine & Covenants 106-108 September 20-26 If you do a cursory reading of Section 107 of the Doctrine and Covenants, you might think this is just a revelation of priesthood quorums and councils, more like a manual or a handbook. Don’t be deceived! Yes, ...
09.10.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 38, “After Much Tribulation…Cometh the Blessings” -- D&C 102-105 September 13–19 The material we talk about today gives us specifics about a dramatic, heart-rending series of events from the 19th century, but is also so relevant for our times, as if the story was written just for us. It ...
09.05.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 37, “Be Still and Know That I am God” -- Doctrine & Covenants 98-101 September 6-12 How would it feel to move a thousand miles by foot and wagon, taking all your belongings you could carry—with a mission to gather to a specific place and build a community and society called Zion. You’ve barely ...
08.27.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 36, “For the Salvation of Zion” -- Doctrine & Covenants 94-97 August 30-September 5 How important are temples to the Lord? When Joseph Smith was on his first mission to Missouri in the summer of 1831, only 17 months after the Church was organized, on August 3, 1831, he received a ...
08.20.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 35, “Receive of His Fulness” -- Doctrine & Covenants 93 August 23-29 In this marvelous book of scripture, the Doctrine and Covenants, we learn things that we can know from no other source, including in rich measure the doctrine of pre-mortality, that we lived with Heavenly Parents, before this world ...
08.13.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 34, “A Principle with a Promise” -- Doctrine & Covenants 89-92 August 16-22 In Section 89, the Lord gave Joseph Smith the Word of Wisdom, which we often take to be a list of do’s and don’ts about how to care for our bodies, but there is more deep doctrine there ...
08.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 33, “Establish a House of God” -- Doctrine & Covenants 88 August 9-15 Maurine, I used to look forward to the tail end of our Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts in Missouri because my Dad, a brilliant and world-renowned geologist and geological engineer, and Darrell Ownby, part of our family and a ...
07.30.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 32, “Stand Ye in Holy Places” -- Doctrine & Covenants 85-87 August 2-8 How distressingly human it is that some people want to build Zion and want an inheritance in Zion, but don’t want to keep the very laws that create Zion. That’s like saying, I want to live in the ...
07.23.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 31, “The Power of Godliness” -- Doctrine & Covenants 84 July 26-August 1 We were just in Nauvoo a few days ago leading a tour. On Sunday morning we attended Church with all the missionaries serving there. It was a beautiful sight to see! They were full of joy, enthusiasm, ...
07.16.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 30, "Where ‘Much is Required’” -- Doctrine & Covenants 81-83 July 19-25 “Peter may have given the best description of the Savior’s mortal ministry in five words when he referred to Jesus, “who went about doing good” (M. Russell Ballard, Precious Gifts). You want to know what to do with ...
07.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 29, “I Will Lead You Along” -- Doctrine & Covenants 77-80 July 12-18 In the last two podcasts we have talked about the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible and the tremendous blessings that came to the Prophet Joseph and to Sidney Rigdon as they carefully studied, pondered and meticulously prayed ...
07.02.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 28, “Great Shall Be Their Reward and Eternal Shall Be Their Glory” -- D&C 76 July 5-11 Though Joseph Smith received many visions and revelations, one of these was so sweeping, so mind-expanding, so glorious that the early Saints simply called it “the Vision.” It not only clarifies who we are and why we’re here ...
06.25.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 27, “No Weapon That Is Formed against You Shall Prosper” -- D&C 71-75 June 28-July 4 Joseph Smith was tasked by the Lord to do something rather unique for a backwoods, upstate New York farmer now living in Northern Ohio. The Prophet Nephi had seen a vision some two thousand four hundred years ...
06.20.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 26, “Scriptures are Worth…the Riches of the Whole Earth” -- D&C 67-70 June 21-27 It was November 1831, and Joseph Smith and others have convened a conference where the major task was to publish the revelations that had come to Joseph Smith in a new book of scripture that they would call ...
06.11.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 25, “The Lord Requireth the Heart and a Willing Mind” -- D&C 64-66 June 14-20 Many years ago, I read Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo: the unabridged version which is 1,463 pages long. Next to the scriptures, it was the greatest reading experience of any book I have ever had. I became so ...
06.04.2021 Come, Follow Me D&C Podcast 24, “That Which Cometh from Above is Sacred” D&C 63 June 7-13 Why is it that a sign from the Lord does not necessarily convince people to join the Church? In fact, could it be true that a sign may not even bolster faith that much? Could it actually be, ...
05.28.2021 Come, Follow Me D&C Podcast 23, “All Flesh is in Mine Hand," D&C 60-62 May 31-June 6 Sometimes we project our modern-day experiences on those early days in the Church and we can’t figure out why somebody did something the way they did it, or why didn’t so-and-so talk to the Prophet Joseph about ...
05.21.2021 Come, Follow Me D&C Podcast 22, “Anxiously Engaged in a Good Cause”, D&C 58-59 May 24-30 Can you imagine living in a world where people did not hurt each other or become angry or divided ? Can you imagine families with total harmony and marriages with no contention? Can you imagine a world where ...
05.14.2021 Come, Follow Me Podcast #21: “A Faithful, a Just, and a Wise Servant”, Doctrine and Covenants 51-57 In these sections we’ve read this week, it’s clear that the Lord entrusts individuals with specific stewardships and it’s not always just land. It can be a mission to perform, books to write, places to go, people to teach, an ...
05.07.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 20, “That Which is of God is Light” -- Doctrine and Covenants 49-50 May 10-16 When you read Doctrine and Covenants Sections 49 and 50, it helps to have the rest of the story. Why should you care about Leman Copley or the Shakers and what’s this talk about false spirits? We will ...
04.30.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 19, “Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts” -- Doctrine and Covenants 46-48 May 3-9 “We must remember that to every man [or woman] is given a gift by the Spirit of God. It is our right and responsibility to accept our gifts and to share them. God’s gifts and powers are available ...
04.23.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 18, “The Promises...Shall Be Fulfilled” -- Doctrine and Covenants 45 April 26-May2 The Second Coming is a topic of endless interest to us, especially in light of the worldwide pandemic we are still battling and the social unrest that is truly troubling. You probably feel as I do, that you ...
04.16.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 17, “My Law to Govern My Church” -- Doctrine and Covenants 41-44 April 19-25 We live in a time when the Church of Jesus Christ has been well established and we are used to talking in terms of large numbers, general conferences translated into scores of languages simultaneously, missionaries serving in diverse ...
04.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 16, “If Ye are not One Ye are Not Mine” -- Doctrine and Covenants 37-40 April 12-18 Robert Matthews said, “Many have supposed that the translation of the Bible [what we call the JST] was only a sideline, a matter of personal, but passing interest to the Prophet Joseph.” We agree that too many misunderstand ...
04.02.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 15, “You Are Called to Preach My Gospel” -- Doctrine and Covenants 30-36 April 5-11 Parley Parker Pratt was 16 months younger than the Prophet Joseph and he was born about 140 miles east of Palmyra, New York. Parley was born curious about religion. He said to his father one day when he ...
03.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 14, “I am He Who Lives. I am He Who was Slain” -- Easter March 29-April 4 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said, “That first Easter sequence of Atonement and Resurrection constitutes the most consequential moment, the most generous gift, the most excruciating pain, and the most majestic manifestation of pure love ever to be ...
03.21.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 13, “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People” -- Doctrine and Covenants 29 By the time Section 29 of the Doctrine and Covenants was given, the fledgling Church was just over five months old. Rumors and false claims were circulating faster than convert numbers. What a strategic time for the adversary of all ...
03.13.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 12, “All Things Must be Done in Order” -- D&C 27-28 In August of 1830, Newel Knight and his wife Sally visited Joseph and Emma in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Since neither woman had yet been confirmed, they agreed to perform the ordinance and have the sacrament together. Joseph set out to buy ...
03.05.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 11, “Strengthen the Church” -- D&C 23-26 March 8-14 After the sacred gathering of nearly four dozen Saints in the Whitmer Home in Fayette, New York on Tuesday, April 6, 1830, this little, no, tiny band was given the commission to take the restored gospel of Jesus ...
02.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 10, “The Rise of the Church of Christ” -- D&C 20-22 March 1-7 When that group of 40 or more gathered in the 20 by 30-foot Whitmer cabin that April 6, 1830 to organize the “only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (Doctrine and Covenants 1:30), ...
02.20.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 9, “The Worth of Souls is Great" -- D&C 18-19 February 22-28 The Doctrine and Covenants is a book full of affirmations that individuals count—that each of us is important in the sight of God. Message after message is to individuals, some we have heard of like Oliver Cowdery or ...
02.12.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 8, “Stand as a Witness” -- D&C 14-17 February 15-21 How do we know about the reality of things we cannot see? How do we know about God whose face we can’t remember? How do we develop faith in spiritual things that are real, but invisible to our ...
02.05.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 7, “Upon You My Fellow Servants” -- D&C 12-13; JSH 1:66-75 February 8-14 The more carefully you study the translation and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, the more you are amazed at the gift and power of God that was given to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery as ...
01.31.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 6, “That You May Come off Conqueror” -- D&C 10-11 February 1-7 As you read the Doctrine and Covenants, section 10 seems out of place chronologically. Since it talks about Martin Harris and the translation of the 116 pages, shouldn’t it come after Section 3? What happened? We’ll tell you ...
01.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 5, “This is the Spirit of Revelation” -- D&C 6-9 January 25-31 Just a few months after the 116 manuscript pages of the Book of Lehi were lost, a young man arrived in Manchester, New York. He was five feet five inches tall, with dark brown eyes, a slight build, ...
01.15.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 4, “My Work Shall Go Forth” -- D & C 3-5 January 18-24 Joseph does not shy away from humbly including Section 3 in the Doctrine and Covenants, where he is severely chastened by the Lord for a failing. He could have hid it or polished it up to preserve his ...
01.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 3, “The Hearts of Their Children Shall Turn...” -- JSH 1: 27-65 January 11-17 Do we know every scripture that Moroni told Joseph Smith on his September 21 visit in 1823? Our first answer is, “They are listed right here in Joseph Smith’s history.” Yet Oliver Cowdery told us there are many ...
01.03.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 2, “I Saw a Pillar of Light” -- Joseph Smith History 1: 1-26 January 4-10 In every dispensation of the world a witness is called to testify to the people of that day and age that he has seen God and has talked with Him and has received instructions and guidance from Him. ...
12.27.2020 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 1, “Hearken, O Ye People” -- D&C 1 December 28-January 3 Hasn’t this been a glorious year in carefully studying the Book of Mormon as individuals and families? Did you notice time and time again that the lesson for that week was just the answer you needed for ...

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