The Scripture Study Project

By Zach and Krista

Religion & Spirituality Christianity

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Welcome to The Scripture Study Project, we are your hosts Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study scripture with you along with ”Come Follow Me”. Our goal each week is to help you discover new or renewed excitement for God and His word, invest your heart and personal life into your study, and connect with others as you teach and learn together.

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Malachi - Message

12.14.2022

Malachi was a messenger, and he prophesied of other messengers to come. Of course John the Baptist stands out as one primary fulfiller of prophesy; but all of us in some small way can be messengers who prepare the way ...

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12.14.2022 Malachi - Message Malachi was a messenger, and he prophesied of other messengers to come. Of course John the Baptist stands out as one primary fulfiller of prophesy; but all of us in some small way can be messengers who prepare the way ...
12.03.2022 Haggai-Zechariah - Consider My grandfather was an architect. I remember visiting him in his office and seeing the tools laid out on his basement drafting board and being captivated by the idea that someone could plan such large buildings. As I've grown older ...
11.28.2022 Nahum-Zephaniah - The Day At the end of the book of Zephaniah, the prophet expresses that in the last days, "the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee". Imagine for a moment: what if we took that verse literally ...
11.18.2022 Jonah-Micah - Flee The story of Jonah is a masterpiece of scriptural story that weaves together a very human and relatable character in Jonah with a compelling illustration of the true character of the Lord interlaced with suspense and surprise. It may be ...
11.12.2022 Amos-Obadiah - Savior(s) I remember years ago watching an episode of a hidden camera tv show where actors acted out a scene where one man, dressed as someone living on the streets, was given money by other only to have that money stolen ...
11.10.2022 Hosea-Joel - Meaning in the Minor Prophets Recently I heard a description of some of the reasons why members of the Church have struggled or are struggling with their faith. For a small group, they struggle because they no longer believe the Church is true. For a ...
10.31.2022 Daniel 1-6 - Excellent There's a story told almost 100 years ago in a Church magazine about a young man named Creed Haymond who ran track for his college. The night before a meet his coach offered the team alcohol to help them relax ...
10.21.2022 Ezekiel - Watch Hebrew prophets were valued because of their ability to foresee coming events and, then, warn people in the present. However, the true test of this foresight is, of course, whether or not these visions materialize. Today we study some of ...
10.17.2022 Jeremiah 30-Lamentations: Shepherd I used to play a game with my seminary students called "Boo Speak" where I would invite a student to leave the room and then, with the students left in the room, pick a word that we would try and ...
10.07.2022 Jeremiah 1-20: Derision I love art museums, and in recent years, I've had multiple chances to attend a few and one thing I've noticed, repeatedly, is the vast breadth of color and emotion represented in the displayed art. Incredible paintings of bright flower ...
09.29.2022 Isaiah 58-66 - Ways There are some pressing questions we must address this week: how can you make shapes and animals out of pancake batter, what's the best way to eat a strawberry, and how cay you maximize the milk-to-cookie ratio of an oreo. ...
09.23.2022 Isaiah 50-57 - Servant Years ago I studied Isaiah 53 with a group of teenagers in a seminary class. As part of our experience I gave students a small piece of cardstock with a silhouette of Jesus printed on it on which I had ...
09.18.2022 Isaiah 40-49 - Comfort I once watched as someone illustrated Isaiah's visions and prophecies by drawing him as a stick figure then drawing a telescope in front of his face which indicated that Isaiah could see, both what was really close at hand, but ...
09.10.2022 Isaiah 13-35 - Fat Things When Krista and I were first married she introduced me to the idea of "empty calories"--foods that you could eat but that would give little to no nutrition (this was how she described many of the things I had grown ...
09.02.2022 Isaiah 1-12 - Delight Some commentators have described the book of Isaiah the climactic book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Isaiah's writings were certainly important to many later writers, including Nephi, Abinadi, Mormon, and Jesus Christ himself. When describing his own passion ...
08.27.2022 Proverbs - Wisdom One of my favorite things about learning from the Lord is that He teaches with images, stories, and symbols. I learned this week that the Hebrew word "māšāl" translated in verse 1 as "proverb" is translated in many other places ...
08.08.2022 Psalms - Blessed I searched for the word "Psalms" on the Church homepage this week and found that almost every General Conference return going on for multiple pages was a talk with a title taken from a psalm. From Pres. Nelson's famous, "Joy ...
08.01.2022 Job - Perfect One thing that took getting used to as I prepared for a mission to Germany was the Germany fairy tale. Contrary to many romantic tales where heroes prevail against evil and receive rewards for their efforts, Germany fairy tales contain ...
07.23.2022 Esther - Scepter Years ago in a seminary class where we were studying a scriptural account of a woman, one of the young men blurted out that he felt the lesson didn't apply to the boys in the class because it was about ...
07.16.2022 Ezra, Nehemiah - Work I've spent the last month getting to know and serve with the newly-called seminary teachers in my local stakes. As I talk with these amazing people it's obvious that they feel the weight of undertaking one of the most demanding ...
07.08.2022 2 Kings 17-25 - Turn In the Book of Mormon the prophet Nephi writes, prophetically, that people in a coming day will "trample under their feet…even the very God of Israel." In our bible study this week we see a fulfillment of that as wicked ...
07.03.2022 2 Kings 2-7 - Unprecedented This week on the Scripture Study Project we start a new month, a new book of scripture (2 Kings), and a new podcast format. We dive into the miracles of Elisha, look at the unprecedented ways in which individuals are ...
06.27.2022 1 Kings 17-19 - Heard Years ago, Peggy Worthen, wife of newly installed BYU president Kevin Worthen, spoke to the gathered student body. In her talk she referenced highway 6, a Utah road that leads from Provo to the eastern side of the state, including ...
06.18.2022 2 Samuel, 1 Kings - Fallen Then Elder Hinckley told a story in general conference about a time when he worked at a trainyard and heard that a passenger train had arrived without the baggage car. He explained, “We discovered that the train had been properly ...
06.10.2022 1 Samuel - Ebenezer I just started a summer institute class in my area (hello to any of my students that are listening) focused on improving our scripture study skills. This week we kicked off class by identifying the two most important questions asked ...
06.05.2022 Ruth - kindness John 3:16 is one of, if note the most, oft-quoted verses of the Bible: "For God so loved the that He gave his only begotten Son". One of the reasons that verse has become so popular is that it represents ...
05.27.2022 Judges - Deliver There's a chilling story President Kimball relates in his book "Miracle of Forgiveness" about a man who pulls himself from alcoholism, practices sobriety for years and readies himself to be sealed in the temple with his wife, and then, on ...
05.20.2022 Joshua - Courage I had a favorite object lessons from my seminary teaching days that introduced the idea of courage. I would take a rat trap, demonstrate how it could snap a pencil in half, then I would reset the trap and ask ...
05.12.2022 Deut - Remember Have you ever taken a "penny quiz"? If not, without looking, see how much you can remember about the penny. And when you realize you can only remember the barest details, ask yourself this: why is that something as common ...
05.08.2022 Num 11-14, 20-24 - Spirit Years ago, before even an apostle, President Eyring gave a powerful insight about spiritual sight. He taught that the repeated phrase, "thus we see" is often a scriptural writer pointing out what someone with spiritual sight will see when looking ...
04.30.2022 Ex 35-40, Lev 1, 16, 19 - Holy Our temples, benefiting from centuries, even millennia of experience, are structured in such a way to help us have powerful revelatory experiences as we come closer to God. This week as we study the end of Exodus and selections from ...
04.22.2022 Ex 24, 31-34 - Goodness This week we study a moment for Israel that taught them powerful truths about themselves and the Lord. Although they were not wrongly imprisoned like Joseph Smith, they had a "miserable experience" because of their own actions that brought them ...
04.17.2022 Ex 18-20 - Peculiar In this episode we study Exodus 18-20 but look, not just at the 10 commandments, but why they are worth thinking about in the first place. Show Notes: Connect with us on Instagram or Facebook Music: by Steve Oxen
04.01.2022 Ex 14-17 - Murmur In our episode this week we study Exodus 14-17 and examine our relationship with our prophetic leaders. We'll examine miracles, murmuring, and mediation through rods and logs. Most importantly, we'll ask ourselves the question, "How can I draw more power ...
03.25.2022 Ex 7-13 - Plagues Perhaps the most common question asked about God is, "Why does God allow bad things to happen?" One recent survey found that this question, in some form or another, is at the heart of almost every faith question or struggle ...
03.20.2022 Ex 1-6 - I Am There were over 2,000 gods in the Egyptian pantheon. These ranged from Amun-Ra who was the god of sun and air, to Sopdu who was a god over a specific border and the forts on that border. In our episode ...
03.11.2022 Gen 42-50 - Forgive Corrie Ten Boom survived the horrors of a WWII concentration camp. Years later she spoke widely of her experience of the power of forgiveness teaching, "Forgiveness is not an emotion. Forgiveness is an act of the will." After one such ...
03.05.2022 Gen 37-41 - Prosper Elder Holland once taught, "Every one of us has times when we need to know things will get better… For emotional health and spiritual stamina, everyone needs to be able to look forward to some respite, to something pleasant and ...
02.27.2022 Gen 28-33 - Prevail As with others before him, Jacob, son of Rebekah and Isaac, receives a new name from the Lord that indicates something the Lord desires or foresees he can become. Jacob's name change is an interesting one: from Jacob, which means ...
02.18.2022 Gen 24-27 - Way BYU professor and artist Anthony Sweat wrote in his recent book, Repicturing the Restoration, about the [in]famous conflict between founding father John Adams and painter John Trumbull. Adams criticized Trumbull for painting the signing of the Declaration of Independence without ...
02.11.2022 Gen 18-23 - Altar When once asked why Abraham was required by the Lord to offer up son Isaac as a sacrifice, Elder Hugh B. Brown answered, "Abraham needed to learn something about Abraham." Of course we know the Lord doesn't test or try ...
02.04.2022 Gen 12-17 - Blessing This week we begin our study of the patriarch Abraham, and that word "patriarch" is an interesting one. In Gen 17:5 the Lord changes Abraham's name from Abram meaning "God is the exalted father" to Abraham meaning "father of multitudes". ...
01.28.2022 Genesis 6-11 - Protect We all have memories as kids of trying to lie our way out of consequences. I remember scrambling through lies as a 10-year-old to try and prevent a grounding and, now as a parent, I can see my actions in ...
01.23.2022 Moses 7 - Zion I recently asked a class how they would finish the prompt, "In a perfect world…" The answers were fun: in a perfect world stickers would always peel off clean, in a perfect world ketchup squeezes out perfectly, in a perfect ...
01.14.2022 Genesis 5, Moses 6 - Walk In C. S. Lewis's Screwtape letters where a fictional devil gives instruction to his apprentice on how to tempt humans, the devil counsels, "Let him do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm ...
01.07.2022 Genesis 3-4 - Sacrifice There's a story in John Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress about a man who rakes muck and dirt. When an angel appears and offers him a celestial crown the man cannot give up what he has grown so accustomed to doing even ...
01.01.2022 Genesis 1-2 - Creation We're posting this episode, our study of Gen 1-2 and the accompanying chapters in the Pearl of Great Price, on January 1, 2022. It's a new year and, at least for me, new years bring a sense of possibility at ...
01.01.2022 Moses 1, Abr 3 - Who? Welcome to our fifth season of The Scripture Study Project. We are brimming with excitement to study the Old Testament with you, and this week we begin that study by diving into two great visions by two great prophets where ...
11.29.2021 Sections 137-138 - Behold In our final episode of 2021 we look through the feast of revelations at the end of the Doctrine & Covenants and look, not at what was revealed, but at how it was revealed and how we can receive more ...
11.22.2021 Sections 135-136 - Gems Joseph and Hyrum Smith were martyred. The Saints had to leave Nauvoo. Pioneers trekked and toiled to find a home. So many difficult experiences packed into such a short window of time, not unlike our own last few years. When ...

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