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

By Scot Facer Proctor

Religion & Spirituality

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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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February 6-12 John’s gospel is so beautifully structured to reveal eternal truths to his audience who are Church members. One story reinforces and points back or forward to the next. For instance, both the wedding at Cana and the visit ...

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02.03.2023 “Ye Must Be Born Again” John 2-4 - Come Follow Me 2023 Podcast 7 February 6-12 John’s gospel is so beautifully structured to reveal eternal truths to his audience who are Church members. One story reinforces and points back or forward to the next. For instance, both the wedding at Cana and the visit ...
01.27.2023 “The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me” Matthew 4; Luke 4-5 - Come Follow Me 2023 Podcast 6 January 30-February 5 Sometimes we don’t look deep enough at the time Jesus was tempted of Satan. We think He went into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan. No, He went into the wilderness for 40 days to be ...
01.20.2023 "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" Matt 3; Mark 1; Luke 3 - Come Follow Me 2023 Podcast 5 January 23-29 This week's lesson is about John the Baptist. What a radiant, powerful voice that attracted crowds to leave Jerusalem and come to the wilderness to hear him. Both John the Baptist and Joseph Smith share something, and that ...
01.13.2023 "We Have Found the Messiah" John 1 - Come Follow Me 2023 Podcast 4 Two different men named John give us their testimonies of Jesus of Nazareth. How can we resist studying these eyewitness accounts from men called the Baptist and the Beloved? We’ll see one of the best missionary tools in history, an ...
01.06.2023 "We Have Come to Worship Him," Luke 2; Matthew 2 - Come Follow Me 2023 Podcast 3 January 9-15 The chapters in this week’s podcast are familiar to us because we have recited them so many times at Christmas. The surprise is that there are hidden gems and ideas in these chapters we might not have seen ...
12.30.2022 "Be It unto Me according to Thy Word," Matthew 1; Luke 1 - Come Follow Me 2023 NT Podcast 2 January 2-8 You know, it's important that you add the Joseph Smith Translation to all of your studies in the coming year because Joseph gives us so many insights into the New Testament. We'll talk about them here and there, ...
12.23.2022 "Getting Excited About the Scriptures," Come Follow Me 2023 NT Podcast 1 After four years of Come Follow Me, Meridian Magazine’s founders, Scot and Maurine Proctor, are excited to continue bringing you our 30-minute podcast on the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum for the week. This is so you can listen with your ...
12.19.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 52, “We Have Waited for Him, and He Will Save Us,” -- Christmas December 19-25 It’s never easy to comprehend that another year has flown past us and it’s Christmas again. Don’t the days seem to go quicker than they used to? With this glorious season upon us, we are blessed to be ...
12.11.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 51, “I Have Loved You, Saith the Lord,” -- Malachi December 12-18 Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers is one of the most important works in mortality. It has been the burden of the ages and is especially critical in the ...
12.09.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 50, “Holiness unto the Lord,” -- Haggai; Zechariah 1-3; 7-14 December 5-11 You remember that the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and carried away many to Babylon. Well, then Babylon got their due and in 538 B.C. they were overthrown by the Persian empire under Cyrus the Great. He ...
12.01.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 49, “His Ways Are Everlasting,” -- Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah November 28-December We’ve been studying the Old Testament all year and now we are coming upon prophets that we know little about. These three prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah, likely contemporaries with our friend Lehi, may be deemed by some ...
11.18.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 48, “He Delilghteth in Mercy,” -- Jonah, Micah November 21-27 Jonah is much more than a fish story, but the story of a man who is cast down into a boat, down into the hull of the boat, down into a big fish, and at last, covered in ...
11.11.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 47, “The Lord Reveals His Secrets to the Prophets,” -- Amos; Obadiah November 14-20 Why does it matter so much that we live in a time when a prophet is on the earth? How is it the Lord’s lovingkindness to us? Why does the Lord make known all of his secrets to ...
11.04.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 46, “I Will Love Them Freely,” -- Hosea; Joel November 7-13 Hosea may not be a book you have spent much time in, but this prophet gives us the description of the covenant relationship that perfectly reflects that a covenant with the Lord is not just a contract (You ...
10.28.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 45, “There is no other God that can Deliver,” -- Daniel October 31-November 6 King Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem in 605 BC and began his first deportation of Jews to Babylon. He chose the elect to deport first, so this group included “the king’s seed, and of the princes.” Among ...
10.21.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 44, “A New Spirit Will I Put within You,” -- Ezekiel October 24-30 The Lord promises the most remarkable thing to His children—even to those who seem to be cast away, like the Jewish captives in Babylon. “A new heart…will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within ...
10.14.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 43, “I Will Turn Their Mourning into Joy,” -- Jer. 30-36; Lam. 1, 3 October 17-23 In earlier Jeremiah chapters, the prophet lists the woes that will befall apostate covenant Israel, but he doesn’t leave it there. Only the Lord knows how to turn this level of desolation and mourning to joy.
10.07.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 42, “The Uncomfortable and Necessary Warnings of Jeremiah,” -- Jeremiah 1-20 October 10-16 Jeremiah was foreordained for the tough prophetic job he was called to do. The Lord said, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee ...
09.30.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 41, “The Redeemer Shall Come to Zion,” -- Isaiah 58-66 October 3-9 Isn’t it amazing that Isaiah’s prophecies date back more than 2,700 years and they are so completely applicable today! No wonder the Lord Jesus Christ commanded the Nephites and the Lamanites: "And now, behold, I say unto you, ...
09.23.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 40, “He Hath Borne Our Griefs, and Carried Our Sorrows,” -- Isaiah 50-57 September 26-October 2 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined by scripture scholar Jeffrey Bradshaw to share why Isaiah 53 is the crown jewel of the New Testament. It is not only unforgettable in its beauty, but stunning in increasing our ...
09.16.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 39, “Comfort Ye My People,” -- Isaiah 40-49 September 19-25 Isaiah’s very name means The Lord is Salvation. In this week’s chapters (40-49) we get a clear message that there is no other God but Jehovah, who is Jesus Christ. We cannot turn to the world, we cannot ...
09.11.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 38, “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder,” -- Isaiah 13-14; 24-30; 35 September 12-18 I love that we get to study parts of Isaiah 29 this week where the Lord speaks with this language: "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and ...
09.02.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 37, “God Is My Salvation,” -- Isaiah 1-12 September 5-11 We are spending the next five weeks studying Isaiah. The prophet asking us to focus on Isaiah for this long is a message to us. We need to know Isaiah and his prophecies! Join us with guest Dr. ...
08.26.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 36, “The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Wisdom,” -- Proverbs August 29-September 4 We used to pass around Chinese proverbs like, "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." My parents used to say that when I was faced with a semester paper I had to write ...
08.19.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 35, “He is Plenteous in Mercy,” -- Psalms 102-150 August 22-28 We know that faith is a power stronger than electricity or lightning or the flooding of many waters. It is the first great governing principle which has power, dominion, and authority over all things. So, of course we ...
08.12.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 34, “The Psalms and Hymns Lead Us to Jesus Christ,” -- Psalms 49-86 August 15-21 There is nothing so joyful as seeing the Saints gather to see the beautiful Houses of the Lord dedicated and made available for the work of the dead and the living. No matter where we are or what ...
08.05.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 33, “God is For Me,” -- Psalms 1-2; 8; 19-33; 40; 46 August 8-14 Today we begin study of the largest book in the Old Testament. Surprisingly, it is Psalms with 97 pages of moving poetry that particularly explores our inner journey in seeking to find God. These are prayers, prophecy, wisdom, ...
07.29.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 32, “Job Reaches Through the Ages to Teach Us,” -- Job August 1-7 When we lead our tours to the Holy Land, we will inevitably pull out some humor from the Biblical sources, attempting to create memories of laughter in remote parts of the tour. Our Bible jokes are many and ...
07.22.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 31, “A Biblical Story with Enormous and Often Unseen Consequences,” -- Esther July 25-31 As a scholar said, “Once it happened that the crafty was taken in his own trap, the falsely condemned were saved, and the worthy were rewarded. It is not always so.” Perhaps [the] story [in Esther which we ...
07.15.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 30, “The Joy of the Temple and the Power of the Word,” -- Ezra 1; 3-7; Nehemiah 2; 4-6; 8 July 18-24 I’ve tried to contemplate the feelings of our ancient brothers and sisters in Jerusalem, who, after 371 years of having a glorious temple, watched as the temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and his forces, and those who survived ...
07.11.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 29, “The Tipping Point that Utterly Changed the World,” -- 2 Kings 17-25 July 11-17 Some events from the past are tipping points, that is, if they had had a different outcome than they did, our world would be utterly and completely different, maybe unrecognizable to us. The events in the scriptures we ...
07.01.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 28, “There is a Prophet in Israel,” -- 2 Kings 2-7 July 4-10 Join us with McKay Christensen who has served as Managing Director of External Relations at BYU and management strategy instructor at the BYU Marriott School of Business as we explore the mantle being passed from Elijah to Elisha. ...
06.24.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 27, “When a New Prophet Arises in Israel,” -- 1 Kings 17-19 June 27-July 3 Join us with guest Patrick Degn who has been an instructor in the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion for more than 25 years. In this episode we will explore the story of King Ahab and Jezebel and ...
06.17.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 26, “Weeping for David,” -- 2 Sam. 5-7; 11-12; 1 Kings 3; 8; 11 June 20-26 We are amazed as we go through the Old Testament how applicable these lessons are today. You'd think that a book that is thousands of years old would not have that kind of application, but we have been ...
06.09.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast #25, “The Battle Is the Lord’s,” -- 1 Samuel 8–10; 13; 15–18 We have with us today a special guest, Mark Matthews. Together we discuss Israel’s desire for a king and Saul’s rise to the position, and how he loses his way. We also discuss the story of David facing Goliath and ...
06.03.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 24, “My Heart Rejoiceth in the Lord,” -- Ruth, 1 Sam. 1-3 June 6–12 Ruth is a happy interlude in these chapters. It’s not a story of a prophet, a war, or a dramatic intervention by the Lord. It’s a family story, a private story in some ways, but it’s the family ...
05.27.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 23, “For The Lord Raised Up a Deliverer," -- Judges 2-4; 6-8; 13-16 May 30-June 5 We’ve just spent 35 days in the Middle East leading three tours in the Holy Land, Egypt and Jordan. Of course, you cannot go to these places and lead a spiritual tour without constantly referring to the ...
05.20.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 22, “How We Learn to be Strong and of Good Courage," -- Joshua 1-8, 23, 24 May 23-29 The story of the Abrahamic covenant is your family story. Kerry Muhlestein says, “We don’t often think of it in that manner.” But our grandfather Abraham grew up in a turbulent time, where “his own father was steeped ...
05.13.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 21, “These Words Shall be in Thine Heart," -- Deut. 6-8; 15; 18; 20-30; 34 May 16-22 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined by Kerry Muhlestein, an Egyptologist, professor at Brigham Young University and author of many books including most recently God Will Prevail, and Let’s Talk about the Book of Abraham. Readers often skip ...
05.06.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 20, “You Can Have What You Want or You Can Have Something Better," -- Num. 11-14, 20-24 May 9-15 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined today by John Hilton lll, who is a professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, an author and humanitarian. In our lesson today, the Children of Israel are in the thick ...
04.29.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 19, “All Things Point us to the Savior’s Atonement," -- Exod 35-40; Lev 1; 16; 19 May 2-8 Elder Tad R. Callister joins Scot and Maurine Proctor today. He was in the Presidency of the First Quorum of Seventy and is the author of a number of books including The Blueprint of Christ’s Church; A Case ...
04.22.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 18, “What is Required to See the Face of God?," -- Exodus 24; 31-34 April 25-May 1 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined in the podcast today by Kerry Muhlestein, BYU professor, Egyptologist, author of God Will Prevail and many other books. He is passionate about teaching people to understand the Old Testament and ...
04.15.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 17, “Why The Lord Wants Us To Be a 'Peculiar Treasure,'" -- Exodus 18-20 April 18-24 Egyptologist, BYU professor, and author Kerry Muhlestein joins Scot and Maurine Proctor today to talk about the Children of Israel at Mount Sinai, and the remarkable visions, thunderings and lightenings that happen on that holy mountain. The Lord ...
04.08.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 16, “God Sent His Son into the World Not to Condemn the World," -- Easter April 11-17 Elder Bruce C. Hafen, former member of the Seventy and an author, joins Scot and Maurine Proctor today to look more deeply and understand with greater clarity the magnificence and personal nature of the Savior’s atonement. He helps ...
04.01.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 15, “When We are Up against a Red Sea," -- Exodus 14-17 April 4-10 Why are the Children of Israel continually complaining and murmuring against Moses? Though they’ve seen the miracles that brought them out of Egypt, and then watched the Red Sea part so they could cross on dry ground, they ...
03.25.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 14, “How the Plagues Defied the False Gods of Egypt," -- Exodus 7-13 March 28-April 3 Scot and Maurine Proctor are joined today by Daniel C. Peterson, retired professor of Islamic Studies and leader of the Middle Eastern texts project at Brigham Young University. In Egypt, there are more gods than you can ...
03.18.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 13, “God Remembers His Covenant to a Thousand Generations," -- Exodus 1-6 March 21-27 Daniel C. Peterson, retired professor of Islamic Studies and founder and editor-in-chief of the Interpreter Foundation, and producer of the film Witnesses, joins Scot and Maurine to explore Moses’s profound encounter with the burning bush and the charge ...
03.11.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 12, “We See How the Lord Works in Joseph of Egypt’s Life," Gen 42-50 March 14-20 When Joseph became vizier of Egypt, second only to Pharoah and wearing his ring of authority, he also got a new name that doesn’t exactly roll off our English-speaking tongues. It is Zaphnath-paaneah and what it lacks in ...
03.04.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 11, “Joseph: The Story You Know Well and May have Never Seen," Gen 37-41 March 7-13 Children can tell the story of Joseph being sold into Egypt. We know it well, with nasty brothers, slave dealers, false accusations, pits of despair and drama galore. What’s most important about this story, however, may not be ...
02.25.2022 Come Follow Me OT Podcast 10, “Surely the Lord is in This Place”, Gen 28-33 February 28-March 6 The story of Jacob in the Bible has all the elements of high drama. True love thwarted, family division, a deceiving father-in-law, a tight escape. If it was a movie you’d want to watch it, but it’s ...

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