Lesson Helps
Activity Days idea: You Are Special
This blog has been neglected! Holy cow! I took a break from doing activities to take care of my now 6 week old baby but now summer is winding down, I'm feeling great and we are back at it! We started off the new school year with a spiritual activity, ending with a lot of laughter. I guess you...
Sept. Visiting Teaching help: Nurturing the rising generation
Each month, the Church News publishes a message to complement the Relief Society visiting teaching message found in the Ensign magazine. The article on this page is based on the Sept. 2010 theme, "Our Responsibility to Nurture the Rising Generation." When leaders of the Springville Utah Hobble...
Sunday School Lesson 33: Jonah 1-4: Micah 2, 4-7
This is another long set of study notes. I have adapted parts of them from a set of notes that Arthur Bassett made several years ago—but don’t hold Art responsible for any mistakes you see here. They are probably mine. I will provide study notes for both sets of readings, that from Jonah and that...
OT Testament Lesson 33 notes: Jonah
Gospel Doctrine Lesson: Jonah Reading: Jonah, Micah 2,4-7 1 Approach These represent the notes I made during my reading of the scriptural text for this lesson. It is not a lesson outline or a lesson plan but really notes about issues and questions that struck me as interesting during my reading....
YW Lesson 2-32 "The Importance of Life"
We've been around long enough to know that this unit, the "Living a Virtuous Life" unit each year, poses some of the greatest teaching challenges to you and usually includes lessons that many of you find to be poorly written, or which contain troubling weird stories, or which need so much...
September 2010 LDS Primary Sharing Time Helps and Ideas
Monthly Theme: I Obey Jesus Christ Because I Love Him Monthly Scripture: "If ye love me, keep my commandments." John 14:15 Weeks 1 and 2: I show love for Jesus Christ when I keep the commandments. * Have a child hold GAK picture 303. Ask the primary children to share what they know about Nephi....
All Colors of the Rainbow!! FHE
Isn't it nice to know that God loves color!! All we have to do is look in the world around us, whether it be nature or our fellow brothers and sisters!! Show a picture of Christ with children of all different colors. Scripture: 4 Nephi 1: 15-18 "And it came to pass that there was no contention...
Old Testament Lesson 31: ''Happy Is the Man That Findeth Wisdom''
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclesiastes 12:13). AUTHOR'S NOTE: I feel a need to say once again that it is not my intent to show you a better or even a different way to teach these lessons. The manual...
OT Lesson 31: Happy Is the Man That Findeth Wisdom
The Wisdom Literature The books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes provide an intriguing variation in our Old Testament study. Not the grand hymnal praises of the preceding Psalms, not the general prose of the Books of Moses, not the historical tomes of the Chronicles, not the highly structured...
RS / MP Lesson 16: “The Church of Jesus Christ in Former Times”
Lesson 16 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth. (Articles of Faith 6) The question is, what does this claim mean? It doesn’t mean that were we somehow to return to 1st-century Jerusalem...
KD Old Testament Lesson 31: Proverbs
1 A Note on approach These represent the notes I made during my reading of the scriptural text for this lesson. It is not a lesson outline or a lesson plan but really notes about issues and questions that struck me as interesting during my reading. Consequently, the notes do not have a conclusion...
Gospel Essentials Lesson 16: The Church of Jesus Christ in Former Times
This is the outline that I would follow if I were teaching the lesson. I have a personal theory that every lesson is, at root, about at least one member of the Godhead. Some focus more on Christ, some focus more on Heavenly Father, and some focus more on the Holy Ghost. By my interpretation the...
RS/MP Lesson 15: “The Lord’s Covenant People” (Gospel Principles Manual)
A brief word about changes to this lesson with the newer edition of the manual, then on to more important matters. There is a number of subtle changes in this lesson, but most of them can be summarized under the heading of “getting rid of exclusivist language.” I think that is a good move....
OT Lesson 31: Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
I laughed when I saw what this lesson covers, “only” slightly less than 16,000 words in Proverbs and slightly more than 23,000 words in Ecclesiastes. If we have the full 40 minutes, that means we should try to cover the content of about 1,000 words per minute (assuming that we don’t have opening...
KD Old Testament Lesson 30: Hezekiah
1 A Note on approach These represent the notes I made during my reading of the scriptural text for this lesson. It is not a lesson outline or a lesson plan but really notes about issues and questions that struck me as interesting during my reading. Consequently, the notes do not have a conclusion...
