Points to Ponder in the Doctrine and Covenants

To accompany your Come, Follow Me study for January 6-12 In addition to reading this section, you would enjoy looking at the following related commentary: Chapter 2: Doctrine and Covenants 1 (churchofjesuschrist.org) Joseph Smith’s Revelations, Doctrine and Covenants 1 (churchofjesuschrist.org) You may also enjoy the following videos: For a Kahoot game related to this material, click here:    https://create.kahoot.it/share/doctrine-and-covenants-1/766d73ce-a0ae-4142-8f78-cdb53aa91e71 . MY FIRST LOVE Of all the four standard works, the Doctrine and Covenants is the first one with which I fell in love.  As a twelve-year-old boy, I had dutifully tried to read the Book of Mormon.  It wasn’t long before I got bogged down and lost interest—quite possibly in the Isaiah chapters at the end of 2 Nephi.  I didn’t make a serious effort to read any scripture again until sometime in my mid-teens, when I was in seminary.  Our teacher had divided the class into teams and...

To accompany your Come, Follow Me study for January 13-19 In addition to reading JS-H 1:1-26 and the Voices of the Restoration material this week, you will enjoy watching the following videos: To see a Kahoot game related to this material, click here:  https://create.kahoot.it/share/joseph-smith-history-1-1-26-first-vision/5b026e98-0e80-4fc3-b4a0-865cebc14913 . Points to Ponder in “Voices of the Restoration: Joseph Smith’s Family” What did you consider the three most impressive points made in this section about Joseph Smith’s parents? Points to Ponder in Joseph Smith—History 1:1- 26 1. How many errors, stated or implied, can you find in the following simplified but intentionally garbled version of Joseph Smith’s First Vision?   I think there are seven, though it may not be easy to find the seventh unless you read the fifth in the series of Lectures on Faith that Joseph Smith and his associates prepared for presentation to the School of the Prophets in Kirtland, Ohio....