→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) The historical background of Section 6.
(04:11) Two types of doubts.
(05:38) How God speaks to our heart.
(24:20) How God speaks to our mind.
(38:53) How we can tell the difference between our own thoughts and revelation from heaven.
(43:48) President Russell M. Nelson’s revelation during surgery and a caution regarding presentism.
(54:00) What can we do to receive more revelation? Revelation has to be sought.
(1:03:41) Trifle not with sacred things.
(1:11:05) Oliver Cowdery may have participated in the translation of Section 7.
(1:14:54) Section 7 and Christian traditions of the Apostle John.
(1:19:21) Comparing our stories.
(1:21:30) Just as the Book of Mormon was abridged and edited by Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants has also been edited.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 306 | D&C 6-9, Come Follow Me 2025 (February 3-9) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) The background of Section 3.
(07:03) The size and contents of the lost manuscript.
(14:09) Joseph reluctantly allows Martin Harris to take the manuscript.
(16:53) God is merciful and gives us second chances.
(26:44) Pleasing someone else at the expense of doing what is right.
(37:41) Neal A. Maxwell said: “God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability”.
(44:04) The background of Section 5.
(48:26) To their death, the Three Witnesses remain true to their testimony of the Book of Mormon.
(58:37) This generation will receive the Lord’s word through Joseph Smith.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 305 | D&C 3-5, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 27-February 2) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) Joseph describes spiritual sight.
(04:59) The weakness of youth is explained as a lack of experience.
(20:06) A definition of a true friend.
(25:49) Interpretations of Malachi 4.
(42:42) The significance of temple ordinances.
(51:09) Joseph Smith’s name is had for good and evil among all nations.
(55:18) Joseph is forbidden to get the plates until four years later. He and Emma get them together.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 304 | D&C 2; JSH 1:27-65, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 20-26) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) The First Vision ends the apostasy.
(09:28) A brief historical overview of Joseph’s family.
(20:18) The First Vision teaches a pattern of prayer and revelation.
(38:55) The reformation was a precursor to the restoration.
(41:21) Persecution may be part of choosing to be a member of the church.
(46:55) Multiple accounts of the First Vision are discussed.
(1:00:09) The First Vision as an esoteric endowment.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 303 | Joseph Smith-History 1:1-26, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 13-19) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) A brief overview of the Doctrine and Covenants.
(06:48) The D&C contains the words of Christ in our day.
(08:30) Anyone in similar circumstances can apply these instructions.
(15:51) The setting and background of Section 1.
(23:54) Defending our beliefs with courtesy and compassion.
(28:14) The Lord’s preface is a voice of warning.
(34:35) Why the language of The King James Bible?
(40:07) Idumea represents the world.
(42:59) The cosmic covenant in Isaiah 24 and 34.
(53:44) Search these commandments for they shall all be fulfilled.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 302 | D&C 1, Come Follow Me 2025 (January 6-12) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) A brief overview of this lesson.
(07:12) The significance of the timetable of the restoration.
(21:29) The understanding of an embodied God was lost in the Apostasy.
(42:20) Our divine inheritance as children of God the Father was also lost in the Apostasy.

→ For more of Bryce Dunford’s podcast classes, click here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 301 | The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Come Follow Me 2025 (Dec 30-Jan 5) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) Applying Moroni’s promise.
(10:06) Why does Moroni say we should ask if these things are not true?
(11:53) Moroni teaches about the gifts of the Spirit.
(21:37) Is it the pleasing or pleading bar of of the Great Jehovah? A discussion about what judgement might be like.
(27:28) We will get to see Moroni at the bar of God and will know his words are true.
(29:57) Let go of the terrestrial and telestial things that take us away from Christ.
(34:18) Zion will awake, arise from the dust, and shake off the chains. Babylon will sit on the ground and lie in the dust.
(46:20) What if the provenance of the Book of Mormon had been different?

→ Bryce Dunford’s Institute classes are now available online, sign up here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 300 | Moroni 10, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 16-22) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) The Nephites are without order and have lost civilization.
(01:43) Faith: Laying hold on every good thing.
(05:44) Hope: An emphasis on God’s power to save me. The participatory nature of hope.
(18:44) Jesus Christ answered the ends of the law.
(22:15) Mormon speaks to the “peaceable followers of Christ.” They are covenant keepers who have been initiated into sacred things.
(28:55) Charity: The pure love of Christ. This type of love is a gift given by the Savior to those who ask. .
(35:33) Brief historical context on infant baptism, Augustine and Pelagius.
(41:09) The dangers of the traditions of men.

→ Bryce Dunford’s Institute classes are now available online, sign up here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 299 | Moroni 7-9, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 9-15) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) The difference between authority and power in the priesthood.
(18:51) We covenant to always remember Christ. Elder Lund’s rock climbing story.
(25:24) In the Church we must remember Jesus and help each other.
(30:22) President Spencer W. Kimball admonished the Saints to teach with power.
(32:40) The early Christian document called the Didache is similar to Moroni 4-6.
(35:16) A possible description of Moroni’s formulation of the title page to the Book of Mormon.

→ Bryce Dunford’s Institute classes are now available online, sign up here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 298 | Moroni 1-6, Come Follow Me 2024 (December 2-8) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.

→ Watch on YouTube

→ Detailed Show Notes

→ Timestamps:
(00:00) Faith during doubt, darkness, and fear. There will be light in the darkness.
(18:54) God can turn our weaknesses into strengths.
(29:56) Moroni’s invitation to see scripture as inspired, though not infallible.
(36:12) Moroni commends us to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written.
(39:23) The building of New Jerusalem and the gathering of scattered Israel is a favored story of Book of Mormon prophets.
(42:31) Christopher Columbus sought a new land for the building of a New Jerusalem in preparation of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
(46:03) Ether hides in the cavity of a rock, a powerful symbol of Christ and the Holy of Holies.
(47:49) The book of Ether ends with Corinantumr seeing the entire destruction of his people. Why is Gilead called the Brother of Shared?
(49:40) Inverted temple symbols in the disintegration of the Jaredite nation.

→ Bryce Dunford’s Institute classes are now available online, sign up here.

→ Enroll in Institute

→ YouTube → Apple Podcasts → Spotify → Amazon Music → Facebook

The post Ep 297 | Ether 12-15, Come Follow Me 2024 (November 25-December 1) appeared first on LDS Scripture Teachings.