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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November 11-17 When I was in college, my great desire was to develop an unshakeable faith, and so I tried many things. I went up the canyon hoping to be alone with God and pray for an hour, but I ...

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11.08.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 44 “An High Priest of Good Things to Come” -- Hebrews 7-13 November 11-17 When I was in college, my great desire was to develop an unshakeable faith, and so I tried many things. I went up the canyon hoping to be alone with God and pray for an hour, but I ...
11.01.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 43 “Jesus Christ, ‘the Author of Eternal Salvation’” -- Hebrews 1-6 November 4-10 Who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews—Paul or somebody else? It has been a centuries old debate that Joseph Smith had an answer for.
10.25.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 42 “Be Thou an Example of the Believers” -- 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon October 28 - November 3 What would you say to your beloved friends and followers if you knew this was the last time you would ever speak to them? Such is the case with 2 Timothy as Paul has his ...
10.18.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 41 “Be Not Soon Shaken in Mind or be Troubled” -- 1 and 2 Thessalonians October 21-27 We have many sicknesses today in our tumultuous world, but Paul aptly labels one of the most pervasive and contagious. We’ll call it the “shaken in mind” syndrome. Being “shaken in mind” is as deadly as it sounds, ...
10.11.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 40 “I Can Do All Things Through Christ Which Strengtheneth Me” - Philippians & Colossians October 14-20 Paul’s letters, or the Pauline epistles, are arranged in the New Testament in descending order of their length—with the exception of The Book of Hebrews. These 14 letters comprise 173 pages, just about 43% of the entire New ...
09.27.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 39 “For the Perfecting of the Saints” -- Ephesians September 30–October 13 What does it mean to be a “stranger in the world”? That’s a lonely idea, right up there with one of the saddest words in our language—homeless. Paul tells the Gentile converts, “Now, therefore ye are no ...
09.20.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 38 “Walk in the Spirit” -- Galatians September 23–29 The Book of Galatians is little known among us. It’s only 6 chapters, in 149 verses and a total of 3,084 words. Can we glean some eternal lessons from this brief letter of the Apostle Paul? We certainly ...
09.13.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 37 “God Loveth a Cheerful Giver” -- 2 Corinthians 8-13 September 16-22 In this book of 2 Corinthians we come nearest to the inner feelings of Paul than in any other of his writings. As one writer said, here Paul reveals his “joy and depression, anxiety and hope, trust and ...
09.06.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 36 “Be Ye Reconciled to God” -- 2 Corinthians 1-7 This mortal experience was never meant to be easy—it was meant to be a school—but a school full of joy and wonderful learning. Paul wrote to the Corinthians: We are troubled on every side (have you ever felt that way?), ...
08.30.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 35 “God is Not the Author of Confusion, but of Peace” -- 1 Corinthians 14-16 September 2-8 In 1 Corinthians, Paul is addressing early converts to the Church who brought with them baggage and false ideas from their previous beliefs. To make matters even more difficult, they were far away from any central administration of ...
08.23.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 34 “Ye Are the Body of Christ” -- 1 Corinthians 8-13 August 26-September 1 This week’s readings include some of the most important teachings in all the scriptures. You’re familiar with them: Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding ...
08.16.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 33 “Be Perfectly Joined Together” -- 1 Corinthians 1-7 August 19-25 Corinth was the powerful, bustling, and wicked trade center of the Roman province of Achaia. When Paul wrote what we call 1 Corinthians, to the members there, it wasn’t his first letter to them. That one is lost ...
08.09.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 32 “Overcome Evil With Good” -- Romans 7-16 August 12-18 The Apostle Paul begins in this week’s readings with a bulls-eye on the struggles we have in this mortal experience and then tells us how to free ourselves from this bondage.
08.01.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast #31 “The Power of God Unto Salvation” Romans 1-6 The book of Romans has some scriptures that are so familiar to us like “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ”, and at the same time, we may sometimes find it hard to understand what Paul is ...
07.26.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 30 “A Minister and a Witness” — Acts 22-28 July 29 - Aug 4 In this week’s lesson we find the prophecy of Saul bearing witness of the Lord before Kings already being fulfilled. Paul’s testimony would reverberate throughout the world.
07.19.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 29 “The Lord Had Called Us for to Preach the Gospel” -- Acts 16-21 July 22-28 Why does Joseph Smith directly compare himself to Paul? What did he see in Paul’s experience that made him feel that the two held so much in common?
07.12.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 28 “The Word of God Grew and Multiplied” -- Acts 10-15 July 15-21 Preaching the gospel had been restricted during Christ ministry, with few exceptions, to the House and children of Israel. In a series of days on the beautiful coast of the Mediterranean Sea—all that would change. It reminds us ...
07.05.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 27 “What Wilt Thou Have Me Do?” -- Acts 6-9 July 8-14 What is this surprise in the nature of Paul that he can go from “breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of Christ” one day and be a submissive disciple of Christ the next? Of course he ...
06.28.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 26 “Ye Shall Be Witnesses unto Me” -- Acts 1-5 July 1-7 For many people, one of the most enigmatic and mysterious parts of the life of Christ, comes after His resurrection when He spent forty days teaching the Apostles. What was the instruction that He gave them and is ...
06.21.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 25 “He is Risen” -- Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21 June 24-30 We’ve all been studying the life and mortal mission of Jesus Christ for the past six months. Don’t you agree that you feel closer to the Savior now than you did at the beginning of your studies? This ...
06.13.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 24 “It is Finished” -- Matthew 27; Mark 15: Luke 23; John 19 June 17-23 After his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, another kind of agony was about to begin for Jesus who was already exhausted with the weight He had borne. Before the night was finished, He would be betrayed, falsely ...
06.07.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 23 “Not as I Will, but as Thou Wilt” -- Matthew 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 18 June 10-16 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 demonstrated ...
05.31.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 22 “Continue Ye in My Love” -- John 13-17 June 3-9 Did you know that the preparation for the Last Supper began with a miracle? It’s subtle, and most readers of the account will not see it—but when you understand the culture and the setting of the time, it’s ...
05.28.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 21 “The Son of Man Shall Come” -- Joseph Smith-Matthew 1, Matthew 25; Mark 12-13; Luke 21 May 27-June 2 We have two questions for you: 1) Which chapter in the New Testament did Joseph Smith make the most changes to? It’s Matthew 24 where Christ during his last week on earth told his apostles just what ...
05.16.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 20 “Behold, thy King Cometh” -- Matthew 21-23, Mark 11, Luke 19, 20; John 12 May 20-26 Jesus once told Mary at Cana that “Mine hour hath not yet come,” but now as we start this lesson that has changed as we take you to the beginning of the last week of His mortal life. ...
05.10.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 19 “What Lack I Yet?” -- Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18 May 13-19 Many questions were posed to the Savior during His mortal ministry. If you had the chance to ask Him one question, in person, what would that question be? In this week’s lesson we have a very powerful question ...
05.03.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 18 “Rejoice with Me; for I Have Found My Sheep Which Was Lost” May 6-12 Have you ever given a party, invited many people, and no one came? In this week’s chapters, we’ll explore a parable about a great feast and how, when invited, many people found shoddy excuses not to attend. As ...
04.25.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 17 “I Am The Good Shepherd” -- John 7-10 April 29-May 5 Have you ever wondered why John the Beloved included the story of the woman taken in adultery in his record? Surely he had hundreds of stories he could have chosen to complete his testimony—why this particular story? ...
04.19.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 16 “What Shall I Do to Inherit Eternal Life?" -- Matthew 18; Luke 10 April 22-28 The Lord often requires us to do things that we think sound impossible. Forgive seventy times seven? This does not mean 490 times, but boundless forgiveness, that we travel with forgiveness for those who have wronged us. Forgiveness ...
04.12.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 15 “O Grave, Where is Thy Victory?” -- Easter April 15-21 We love Easter as the most important celebration of the year because it is Jesus Christ’s atonement and resurrection that answers every uncertainty, loosens every bond and supplies every hope for our mortal experience. More people saw the ...
03.29.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 14 “Thou Art The Christ” -- Matthew 16-17; Mark 8-9; Luke 9 April 1-14 In Jesus’s teachings, the land of Israel itself becomes his visual aid. That is nowhere more evident than in the teachings he gives in Caesarea Philippi about the rock on which His Church will be built. Learn about ...
03.21.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 13 “Be Not Afraid” -- Matthew 14-15; Mark 6-7; John 5-6 March 25-31 Not all of the moments and sayings in the life of Jesus can we read as a sequence of events. We have stories and sayings that we can’t always connect. But in today’s study we can see things ...
03.15.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 12 “Who Hath Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear” -- Matthew 13; Luke 8; 13 March 18-24 Jesus taught in parables both to reveal and conceal truths. There is more in even apparently simple statements than immediately meets the eye in what Jesus taught. What for instance does it mean, “Then shall the righteous shine ...
03.08.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 11 “These Twelve Jesus Sent Forth” -- Matthew 10-12; Mark 2; Luke 7; 11 March 11-17 This episode of the Come Follow Me podcast relates many stories that you probably haven’t heard into the calling of an apostle and what today’s apostles say about their own special witness of Jesus Christ. You will also ...
03.01.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 10 “Thy Faith Hath Made Me Whole” -- Matthew 8-9; Mark 2-5 March 4-10 As mortals we are on a journey to move from being broken to healed, and it is the Lord who is our attending physician. The stories in the New Testament are not only about the halt, the blind, ...
02.22.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 9 “He Taught Them as One Having Authority” -- Matthew 6-7 How can we become better at praying? It is a question that most of us ask ourselves as serious disciples of Jesus Christ. In these chapters from the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Himself teaches us how to pray. ...
02.15.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 8 “Blessed Are Ye” -- Matthew 5; Luke 6 The Sermon on the Mount was called by President Joseph Fielding Smith, “The greatest sermon that was ever preached, so far as we know,” and President Harold B. Lee called it “the constitution for a perfect life”. It tells us ...
02.08.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 7 “Ye Must Be Born Again” -- John 2-4 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 to Nicodemus ...
02.01.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 6 "The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me" -- Matthew 4; Luke 4-5 Jesus goes into the wilderness, fasting for 40 days, to commune with his Father, and then when he is famished, Satan comes upon him with temptation. As the arch liar who has eons of practice, he uses types of temptations ...
01.24.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 5 "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" -- Matt 3; Mark 1; Luke 3 There is a stir in the Judean wilderness, a voice of authority and vibrancy that hasn’t been heard amongst the Jews for at least four hundred years. John the Baptist is preaching his hopeful and important message. He is a ...
01.21.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 4 "We Have Found the Messiah" -- John 1 Joseph Smith calls this book The Testimony of John. Think of this as his testimony to us as an eyewitness of the life of the Savior. The scenes from Jesus’ life that [John] describes are carefully selected and arranged with ...
01.10.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 3 "We Have Come to Worship Him" -- Luke 2; Matthew 2 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 before. The ...
01.04.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 2 "Be It unto Me according to Thy Word" -- Matthew 1; Luke 1 This is the second week's lesson in the new Come Follow Me curriculum. We are Scot & Maurine Proctor, publishers and editors of Meridian Magazine. The podcast gives you 25-30 minutes of lively discussion on the week's lesson. The topic ...
12.28.2018 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 1 "We are Responsible for our Own Learning" Beginning today, December 28, 2018, 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, ...