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 2-8 As we start our studies today on Mormon 7-9, Moroni has taken over the record from his father and is in a tragic position. He has seen his culture decimated and he is the last survivor of what ...

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10.30.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 43, “I Speak unto You as if Ye were Present” -- Mormon 7-9 November 2-8 As we start our studies today on Mormon 7-9, Moroni has taken over the record from his father and is in a tragic position. He has seen his culture decimated and he is the last survivor of what ...
10.23.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 42, “I Would That I Could Persuade All … to Repent” -- Mormon 1-6 October 26-November 1 Every time I read the Book of Mormon and get to these chapters, I always hope that the Nephites will repent and that their civilization and people will be spared—and then it happens every time! They are ...
10.16.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 41, “There Couldn’t have been a Happier People” -- 3 Nephi 27-4 Nephi October 19-25 When President Russell M. Nelson taught us that we needed to use the true name of the Church going forward, he was teaching us something deeper than we might have understood at the time. Something, in fact that ...
10.09.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 40, “Ye Are the Children of the Covenant” -- 3 Nephi 20-26 October 12-18 If you knew that the Lord Jesus Christ would spend the day with you and all who would come to the occasion from your home stake, what do you think He would teach you? What do you think ...
09.25.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 39, “Behold, My Joy is Full” -- 3 Nephi 17-19 September 28-October 11 Can you imagine the joy that would fill your souls if you were witnesses to the visitation of the Lord Jesus Christ? How could you possibly describe your feelings? How could you even handle the happiness that ...
09.18.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 38, “I Am the Law, and the Light” -- 3 Nephi 12-16 September 21-27 If you were to do a survey to determine the most influential talk or sermon in history, surely the results would point to the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. Here are contained the eternal “beatitudes;” here is contained ...
09.11.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 37, “Arise and Come Forth Unto Me” -- 3 Nephi 8-11 September 14-20 How can you not be just thrilled with this week’s readings? The entire Book of Mormon has been centered on one Person—Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer—and His coming to the earth and the promised visit to this ...
09.04.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 36, “Lift Up Your Head and Be of Good Cheer” -- 3 Nephi 1-7 September 7-13 I was just pondering very early this morning as I looked out the window: “What if at 4:00 in the morning on a fall day I looked out the window and it was as bright as day? Would ...
08.28.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 35, “Glad Tidings of Great Joy” -- Helaman 13-16 August 31-September 6 In the Book of Mormon, the Nephites always think of themselves as the good guys. In a movie, they’d ride in wearing the white hat or the gold star, signifying their goodness. Yet, the Book of Mormon ...
08.21.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 34, “Remember the Lord” -- Helaman 7-12 August 24-30 As Helaman chapter 7 opens, we see a prophet pleading with God for his people in great agony and heaviness of Spirit. The Gadianton robbers had usurped legitimate authority and taken over much of the government, the people ...
08.14.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 33, “The Rock of our Redeemer” -- Helaman 1-6 August 17-23 In Helaman chapters 1-6, the Lamanites become the righteous and the Nephites the wicked. How does this switch come about? And the new enemy are the Gadianton robbers, who capture the allegiance of many of the Nephites. Things ...
08.07.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 32, “Preserved by His Marvelous Power” -- Alma 53-63 August 10-16 The ten chapters that we look at today are about both the low and high points of the Nephite nation. This is a time of continual war, brought on in large part by the “contentions, and dissensions, and ...
07.31.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 31, “Stand Fast in the Faith of Christ” -- Alma 43-52 August 3-9 You may get to the so-called war chapters in the Book of Mormon and wonder why Mormon bothered to include so many of them. Yet, he was a prophet who’d seen our day and if ever there were ...
07.24.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 30, “The Great Plan of Happiness" -- Alma 39-42 July 27-August 2 With only 239 chapters in the Book of Mormon and only 531 pages, would you take four of those chapters and 8 pages just to talk about one wayward missionary’s story who committed a grievous sexual sin? ...
07.17.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 29, “Look to God and Live” -- Alma 36-38 July 20-26 We see many conversations in the Book of Mormon where fathers teach their sons and their impact changes not only their son’s life, but the generations that follow. The lessons are profound. The impact overwhelming. If there was ...
07.13.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 28, “Plant This Word in Your Hearts” -- Alma 32-35 July 13-19 Alma has a hidden message in this week’s readings. You all are familiar with the concept he teaches of having a particle of faith and planting a seed and nurturing it that it may grow. But what is ...
07.04.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 27, “The Virtue of the Word of God” -- Alma 30, 31 July 6-12 It is surprising that an idea can at once be so popular, attracting people to give it passionate devotion, and at the same time be completely false. Why are people so often crazy enough to jump on a ...
06.26.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 26, “They Never Did Fall Away” -- Alma 23-29 June 29-July 5 It’s intriguing to me to ponder about why the great abridger of the ancient records, the Prophet Mormon, included some stories and not others in the text. No one in ancient times had the Book of Mormon. ...
06.19.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 25, “I Will Make an Instrument of Thee” -- Alma 17-22 June 22-28 Can you imagine if today you opened a mission call and it was for a 14-year mission to a violent people whose aim was to destroy you? You might think twice about that kind of call. Yet, the ...
06.14.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 24, “Enter into the Rest of the Lord” -- Alma 13-16 June 15-21 Have you ever thought about Alma and Amulek watching the believers in Ammonihah burn? It is not just the pain that these are their tender converts. Could it be that Amulek’s own family was among that group because ...
06.05.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 23, “Jesus Christ will Come to Redeem His People” -- Alma 8-12 June 8-14 Here’s an irony. In our day, when someone wants to change everything that is wrong with the world, they run for president. In the Book of Mormon, Alma hoping to pull down the pride and craftiness and contentions ...
05.29.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 22, “Have Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?” -- Alma 5-7 June 1-7 I’ve always loved Alma chapter 5. It could be taken as the most introspective chapter in all of holy writ. Alma asks more than 40 questions of his listeners and really wants them to probe their spirituality in ...
05.22.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 21, “They were Steadfast and Immovable” -- Mosiah 29-Alma 4 May 25-31 Hugh Nibley calls Mosiah 29 one of the most important treatises on political power ever written. In fact, the Book of Mormon has plenty to say about good and bad political leaders. Why does a spiritual book have ...
05.15.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 20, “They Were Called the People of God” -- Mosiah 25-28 May 18-24 When I was growing up and first learning about the story of Alma the Younger’s conversion in the Book of Mormon, I always pictured him as a rebellious teenager who hung out with the four sons of Mosiah ...
05.08.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 19, “We Have Entered into a Covenant with Him” -- Mosiah 18-24 May 11-17 I have often wondered what was on Abinadi’s mind as the fire that would engulf and kill him burned hotter and hotter. Did he wonder if he’d been a good missionary, because after all, there wasn’t a rush ...
04.30.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 18, “A Light … That Can Never Be Darkened” -- Mosiah 11-17 May 4-10 There are many times in our lives when we just have to stand up for the truth and, sometimes we stand alone. Has that ever happened in your life? Has it happened in the lives of your ancestors ...
04.24.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 17, “In the Strength of the Lord” -- Mosiah 7-10 April 27-May 3 Elder Richard G. Scott said, “Help from the Lord always follows eternal law. The better you understand that law, the easier it is to receive His help.” The chapters that we are studying in this podcast demonstrate ...
04.17.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 16, “A Mighty Change” -- Mosiah 4-6 April 20-26 Over our years of studies of the first 6 chapters of Mosiah we have all come to love King Benjamin and his marvelous teachings. We have the whole thing in our minds, don’t we? The aged King Benjamin; ...
04.10.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 15, “Filled with Love Towards God and All Men” -- Mosiah 1-3 April 13-19 Elder Neal A. Maxwell called the chapters we are studying in this episode the “Manual of Discipleship”. Since Mormon could include only the hundredth part of the records he had available to him, this may be the reason ...
04.03.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 14, “He Shall Rise with Healing in His Wings” -- Easter March 30-April 12 I love the season of spring. I love the newness of life. I love the crocus, daffodils and tulips just popping through the winter-hardened earth. I love the buds that magically appear on all the trees. I ...
03.21.2020 A Message of Faith and Hope from the Proctors This has been an unprecedented time in the history of our nation, our world and the Church. With news of the Corona Virus dominating the headlines and our mind space, we wanted to take a few minutes just to just ...
03.20.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 13, “He Works in Me to do His Will” -- Enos-Words of Mormon March 23-29 I remember, following Enos’s example, of going to the woods to pray in my life, in fact, more than once. Then, I recently was talking about Enos with a friend, and he said he, too, had gone to ...
03.13.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 12, “The Lord Labors with Us” -- Jacob 5-7 March 16-22 One of my favorite olive trees in the entire world is inside the walls of the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies in Jerusalem. I remember Truman Madsen telling us all about how it was long-lined from ...
03.06.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 11, “Be Reconciled unto God through the Atonement of Christ” -- Jacob 1-4 March 9-15 When Jacob speaks at the temple in the book named after him, it is with both anxiety and boldness, setting an example for all us who have to teach the people we love in this difficult world. It ...
02.28.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 10, “This is the Way” -- 2 Nephi 31-33 March 2-8 Any returned missionary will recognize the chapters we are studying this week. We used many of these verses when it came time to challenge a serious investigator to make the commitment to be baptized. In all our readings ...
02.21.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 9, “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder” -- 2 Nephi 26-30 February 24-March 2 Nephi, of course is heartbroken because he has seen in revelation the destruction of his people. He says, “O the pain, and the anguish of my soul for the loss of the slain of my people” (2 ...
02.14.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 8, “We Rejoice in Christ” -- 2 Nephi 11-25 February 17-23 There was a story told of a man in war and in the heat of the battle he was shot in the chest. By a miracle he was spared being killed. As he was taken back to the ...
02.07.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 7, “O How Great the Plan of Our God” -- 2 Nephi 6-10 February 10-16 Do you know how many times the word “plan” shows up in the Book of Mormon? 66 times! How about in the Old Testament—only three times, and none of these is talking about the plan of salvation. The ...
01.31.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 6, “We Lived after the Manner of Happiness” -- 2 Nephi 1-5 February 3-9 How can Lehi who has suffered so much in the wilderness journey, including the murderous rejection of his own sons, Laman and Lemuel, possibly write that man is that he might have joy? Does he know something that ...
01.24.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 5, “I Will Prepare the Way Before You” -- 1 Nephi 16-22 January 27-February 2 A theme is so prevalent throughout scripture, and especially in the Book of Mormon, that you would think we would never miss it, and yet we do. What is that elusive theme? We’ll tell you in this ...
01.17.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 4, “Armed with Righteousness and the Power of God” -- 1 Nephi 11-15 January 20-26 After Lehi had his dream of the tree of life, his sons had some choices, and, based on those, in the next few hours had radically different experiences. Laman and Lemuel went to their tent and fought about ...
01.10.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 3, “Come and Partake of the Fruit” -- 1 Nephi 8-10 January 13-19 I remember once being so tired as we made our way out of a remote area of the Sinai Desert in Egypt. It was night and we wanted to drive all the way back to Cairo but we ...
01.03.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 2, “I Will Go and Do” -- 1 Nephi 1-7 January 6-12 We all know the 1st book of Nephi so well, you may wonder if there is still more to learn. Welcome to the inexhaustible Book of Mormon that always surprises us with its spiritual richness and historical authenticity. ...
12.27.2019 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 1, “Another Testament of Jesus Christ” -- Introductory Pages December 30-January 5 I was reading a very short notice this past week in a local newspaper that was just over 300 words long. This is not a well-known national periodical, in fact, it’s quite obscure—but the notice I read ...
12.20.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 50 “He That Overcometh Shall Inherit All Things” -- Revelation 12-22 December 23-29 Here’s the latest breaking news: The major war that was going on in the pre-mortal world between the forces of Lucifer and the forces of Michael has continued—but it has changed locations. All of Lucifer’s forces have been ...
12.13.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 49 “Good Tidings of Great Joy” -- Christmas December 16-22 For a few minutes you can leave the hustle of the season behind, while we take you to Bethlehem, a place we’ve spent much time. Come on an armchair journey.
12.10.2019 Come Follow Me Podcast 48 “Glory, and Power, Be unto … the Lamb for Ever” -- Revelation 1-11 December 9-15 There is often a certain dread that comes over us as we approach a thorough study of John’s Book of Revelation. “How will I ever understand this book? How can I figure out all the symbols and mysterious ...
11.29.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 47 “God is Love” -- 1-3 John; Jude December 2-8 John is described as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”, and it may be no surprise that he gives us a deeper look into what it means to love and how it is done. Of all the things I ...
11.22.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 46 “Rejoice with Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory” -- 1 & 2 Peter November 25-December 1 We know so much about the apostle Peter. He is a hero to many of us. He is the one who stepped so quickly forward to action. He is the one who boldly testified that Jesus is ...
11.15.2019 Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast 45 “Be Ye Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only” -- James November 18-24 Of the three men named James in the New Testament, which one wrote the Book of James? And another question: Is James actually a Hebrew name anyway?

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