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		<title>What is the Book of Mormon, really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, there are innumerable ways to answer this. But here&#8217;s a definition that might deserve more consideration&#8211;The Word of God. That sounds almost too cute. But consider how the Word of God is depicted in 2 Nephi 29. In short, the Lord says “I command all men, both in the east and in the west, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3687&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Book of Mormon Seriously as History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we often focus on the spiritual messages of the Book of Mormon, the Book of Mormon itself is not written as a mere collection of sermons or prophetic teachings. In order to take it seriously on its own terms, we need to pay closer attention to the Book of Mormon as historiography&#8211;&#8221;an account written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3550&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are all the missing scriptures?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much scripture are we still missing or not recognizing? If we take Nephi seriously, perhaps quite a bit! Latter-day Saints are quick to quote Nephi in defending the logic behind recognizing extra-biblical scripture such as the Book of Mormon. We are even at times uncharitable, labeling as fools (2 Nephi 29:4) those who accept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3465&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and Anxiety?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/09/02/faith-and-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m puzzled by a line in Jacob 1:5, where we are told that Nephi and Jacob had received revelations &#8220;concerning our people, what things should happen unto them&#8221; and that these revelations had come &#8220;because of faith and great anxiety.&#8221; What role did anxiety play in the receipt of this revelation in particular, and what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3269&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alma the Younger as Proto-Nehorite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Alma 1 Nehor comes out of nowhere, causes a big scene with Alma the Younger, and is summarily executed. All in less than 15 verses! While this episode may seem like a flash in the pan, Nehor holds the key for understanding Alma the Younger—including his early rebellion and his entire ministry. First of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3201&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harrowing up of Souls</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Book of Mormon uses the term harrow or harrowing 10 times. Harrowing is the agricultural practice of dragging a series of spikes or disks over a field to either smooth or tear up the surface. The practice is mentioned three times in the Old Testament, but only the Book of Mormon mentions the harrowing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3168&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obedience is the first law of heaven</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/07/08/obedience-is-the-first-law-of-heaven/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/07/08/obedience-is-the-first-law-of-heaven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard this quote over and over. It is repeated several times in official class manuals (see for instance, here and here). But where does this teaching come from? Thanks to the searchable LDS General Conference Archive we can date the phrase to at least 1873, in a talk by Joseph F. Smith. Interestingly, while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3053&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alma 14</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/06/25/alma-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us working on the Alma 14 wiki project, what are some of your thoughts or insights as you work through this chapter?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3027&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mormon&#8217;s Plates</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/06/23/mormons-plates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised when I started reading Skousen&#8217;s The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text to see that his reformatting of the text provided a new perspective and raised new questions for me from the very first lines of the Title Page. Here&#8217;s how this looks, more or less, in our official LDS version [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=3020&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brought by the Hand of the Lord</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2011/03/05/brought-by-the-hand-of-the-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are other possible interpretations, perhaps the most popular LDS view of Lehi&#8217;s promised land is to see it as referring to the United States of America. If we accept that interpretation, what are we to make of Lehi&#8217;s prophecy, &#8220;according to the workings of the Spirit which is in [him], that there shall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=2768&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Smith and Abou Ben Adhem</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/05/07/joseph-smith-and-abou-ben-adhem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how I&#8217;ve never heard this poem before, but today I was struck by the similarity between Joseph Smith&#8217;s encounter with Moroni and James Henry Leigh Hunt&#8217;s poem Abou Ben Adhem (published in England in 1834): Abou Ben Adhem About en Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1701&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glory of God?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/04/09/glory-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue to ponder 2 Nephi 2, I&#8217;m wondering about this line in v.4: thou hast beheld in thy youth his glory What is it that Jacob has beheld, and what does it mean to behold it? What actually is the glory of God? Does this happen in an open vision of God? Continuing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1612&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ends of the Atonement?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/02/26/ends-of-the-atonement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2nd Nephi 2 is one of the most quoted chapters in the Book of Mormon. Seminary students can quote passages about opposition in all things, and Adam falling that men might be. I think many Latter-day Saints find it profound or beautiful or comforting. But I&#8217;ve been reading it every day for the past week, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1477&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>178th Anniversary of &#8220;The Vision&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/02/16/178th-anniversary-of-the-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/02/16/178th-anniversary-of-the-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 16th is one of my favorite days, the anniversary of &#8220;The Vision&#8221; of the three degrees of glory given to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon now recorded in Doctrine &#38; Covenants 76. We cherish this section of scripture, and teach about the three degrees of glory in our missionary discussions, though it seems like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1451&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>_The Ignorant Schoolmaster_, Chapter 3: &#8220;Reason Between Equals&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/01/23/_the-ignorant-schoolmaster_-chapter-3-reason-between-equals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the discussion leader for this chapter, I suppose I should stand ignorantly at the door, pushing you through to enter and explore with no escape from exercising your liberty, all the while asking each of you what do you see? What do you think about it? What do you make of it? I&#8217;ll try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1344&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creation and Science for Mormons</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2010/01/14/creation-and-science-for-mormons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to make of the creation accounts given to us in Genesis and Latter-day scripture? Do they call us to reject scientific findings about our 4.54 billion year old planet and 3.8 billion year evolutionary history of life on earth? I was raised in a conservative LDS home and was taught that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1314&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy to the World</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/23/joy-to-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is the time of year we sing about angels coming to proclaim joy to the world, maybe it&#8217;s a good time to ask what we really know about joy? We can all probably quote a few scriptures about joy&#8211;&#8221;men are that they might have joy&#8221; and something about morning stars singing and Sons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1173&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Angels&#8211;or RS/MP Lesson 47: “‘Praise to the Man’ (Joseph Smith Manual) redux</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/12/18/on-angels-or-redux-rsmp-lesson-47-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%98praise-to-the-man%e2%80%99-joseph-smith-manual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our quorum discussion on this one only made it through two quotes. Most of our time was taken by a discussion of the Wilford Woodruff quote that states &#8220;&#8230;the Prophet of God was administered to by the angels of heaven. They were his teachers, they were his instructors, and all that he did, and all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Satan&#8217;s Priesthood?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/10/13/satans-priesthood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We read a bit about the sealing power of the priesthood in scriptures such as Hel. 10: 7 Behold, I give unto you apower, that whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven; and thus shall ye have power among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1061&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Posterity</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/09/21/our-posterity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my current read through of the Book of Mormon, I&#8217;m increasingly struck by how &#8220;posterity focused&#8221; the Nephite patriarchs and prophets are. The whole enterprise of writing on the plates, of course, only makes sense in light of the huge pains they take to preserve the gospel covenants for their posterity. Nephi agonizes about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1052&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where (or what) is Wisdom?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/08/13/where-or-what-is-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/08/13/where-or-what-is-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reading the garden account in Genesis this morning, I was struck by Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Doctrine D&amp;C Lesson 17: Tithing and Fasting</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/05/31/gospel-doctrine-dc-lesson-17-tithing-and-fasting/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/05/31/gospel-doctrine-dc-lesson-17-tithing-and-fasting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I covered this lesson in our ward. We&#8217;ve all had dozens of lessons about tithing and fasting. But I think we soon found out that maybe we still have a lot more to learn! I started out with asking for what we talked about last week (Sabbath observance) and writing that on the board. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=981&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mighty Nation Among the Gentiles</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/01/29/a-mighty-nation-among-the-gentiles/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2009/01/29/a-mighty-nation-among-the-gentiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading to his brothers from the words of Isaiah, Nephi prophesies about &#8220;a mighty nation among the Gentiles&#8221; (1 Nephi 22:7) that will scatter their descendants. I think many of us traditionally interpret this &#8220;mighty nation&#8221; as the United States of America. Maybe we&#8217;ve been wrong. Key to identifying this &#8220;mighty nation&#8221; seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=818&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LDS Institute Class: Rel 121 (Book of Mormon)</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/11/13/lds-institute-class-rel-121-book-of-mormon/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/11/13/lds-institute-class-rel-121-book-of-mormon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past month I started teaching an LDS Institute class in inner-city Philadelphia. Now that local institute programs are under the direction of Stake Presidencies, there may be more opportunities for volunteer teachers to get involved in teaching these classes. This is turning out to be a great blessing in my life, and my weekly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=660&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Member Missionary Sunday School Lessons</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/11/13/member-missionary-sunday-school-lessons/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/11/13/member-missionary-sunday-school-lessons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our ward we&#8217;ve started a Member Missionary Sunday School class, based on the lessons found online at Elder Clayton M. Christensen&#8217;s Missionary Leaders website. This series of three lessons covers seven major principles of member missionary work, and our bishop wants everyone in our ward to rotate through the class over the next year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=658&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of Mormon Lesson 29 (Alma 36-39)</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/08/03/book-of-mormon-lesson-39-alma-36-39/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/08/03/book-of-mormon-lesson-39-alma-36-39/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ended up subbing at the last minute on this one. I had read the first couple chapters this week (and worked on them on the FUTW wiki), so yesterday and today I re-read those chapters and read the last two. I had a couple verses I was interested in talking about, but otherwise didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=568&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A lone man on the Wiki</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/07/17/a-lone-man-on-the-wiki/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/07/17/a-lone-man-on-the-wiki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been pretty lonely over on the Feast Upon the Word wiki lately, but my sojourn there the past month or so has really helped me appreciate the value of the wiki as a scripture study tool. Mostly, I&#8217;ve been trying to read along with the Gospel Doctrine lesson schedule and focusing my efforts on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=542&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BoM Lesson 15 (Mosiah 1-3) Redux</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/27/bom-lesson-15-mosiah-1-3-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/27/bom-lesson-15-mosiah-1-3-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I taught this Gospel Doctrine lesson this week and we barely got out of the first two verses of Chapter 1! I started by asking the class if anyone had any insights from reading these chapters this past week. After a couple short responses, we launched in to the readings. We started by reading Mosiah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=505&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s an Ark?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/25/whats-an-ark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the classic Bill Cosby sketch, after the LORD tells Noah to build an Ark, Noah responds with &#8220;Right. What&#8217;s an ark?&#8221; Recently, University of London professor Tudor Parfitt is challenging our own perceptions of another ark by claiming to have found the Ark of the Covenant in Africa. Unlike the gold-plated weapon of mass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=503&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers: Called or Chosen?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/21/teachers-called-or-chosen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, one of my Gospel Doctrine teachers was released unexpectedly, and as I sat in Sacrament Meeting pondering who might best replace her, I wondered if instead of calling a new teacher, I might take D&#38;C 50 to heart and, considering everyone a potential teacher, ask ward members to take turns leading the weekly Gospel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=501&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BoM Lesson 14: Enos, Jarom, Omni, Words of Mormon</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/11/bom-lesson-14-enos-jarom-omni-words-of-mormon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gospel Doctrine lesson this week features, as usual, an embarrassment of riches. There is more text here than can be covered in one class, and more than enough commentary available online to supply any teacher looking for topics to cover. So why add more here now? Read on and see! I&#8217;ve already posted Primary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=497&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brokenhearted?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/04/01/brokenhearted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering about my own status with the Lord lately, and have been asking myself the questions found in Alma 5. Have I been sufficiently humble? Do I have a broken heart and a contrite spirit? In researching these phrases, I just read an interesting article about the term brokenhearted: Boyle, Marjorie O&#8217;Rourke (2005), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=493&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching with Questions</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/03/26/teaching-with-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in the MTC almost 20 years ago (ouch!), our large group meeting trainer was a guy named Elder Slaughter who had served his mission in Mexico. Rumor was that he had baptized thousands of people like some latter day Ammon or something. One evening, we went to visit him (he was also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=491&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Primary 4: Book of Mormon 10 (King Benjamin Teaches His People)</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/03/16/primary-4-book-of-mormon-10-king-benjamin-teaches-his-people/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/03/16/primary-4-book-of-mormon-10-king-benjamin-teaches-his-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the official lesson materials, the purpose of this lesson is: To strengthen the children’s commitment to keep their baptismal covenants and follow Jesus Christ. After reading King Benjamin&#8217;s address several times this week, and reading some of Joe&#8217;s comments on the Feast Wiki, I had no idea how to work through this lesson [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=484&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Primary 4: Book of Mormon Lesson 9 (Enos Prays)</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/03/09/primary-4-book-of-mormon-lesson-9-enos-prays/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/03/09/primary-4-book-of-mormon-lesson-9-enos-prays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the official lesson materials, the purpose of this lesson is: To encourage the children to seek the blessings that come through sincere prayer to Heavenly Father. I substitute taught this lesson to 10 and 11 year old primary class today. I started with a game of hangman, with the first part of Enos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=482&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nephi Slays Beasts on the Mount</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2008/02/03/nephi-slays-beasts-on-the-mount/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in Gospel Doctrine I was struck by a couple verses that we usually don&#8217;t linger over when we read the story of Nephi&#8217;s broken bow. 30 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, did go forth up into the top of the mountain, according to the directions which were given upon the ball. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=446&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>D&amp;C 98 Fighting Words for Saints</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/11/28/dc-98-fighting-words-for-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the recent discussion of the Strippling Warriors keeps referring us back to Doctrine &#38; Covenants 98, perhaps its worth taking a closer look at that section. There has already been some good commentary on it posted at the feast wiki. This section seems to consist of fighting words for Saints, as some take it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=373&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building Zion</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/11/27/building-zion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We read that &#8220;Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom&#8221; (D&#38;C 105:5). On the other hand, according to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, after Zion is established during the Millennium &#8220;the earth will be changed to a terrestrial state&#8221;. How is it that Zion can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=372&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Control Our Tongues, Primary 7, Lesson 41</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/11/26/control-our-tongues-primary-7-lesson-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was called in to substitute in Primary yesterday and ended up with two classes, the 10 and 11 year olds. This lesson focuses on scriptures in James and elsewhere &#8220;to help the children learn to control the things they say and think.&#8221; I started the class with one of my favorite attention getters&#8211;I scrambled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=370&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scripture Cartoons?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/11/05/scripture-cartoons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep down in Joe&#8217;s Akedah podcast, he has a throwaway line about the inadequacy of cartoons to convey gospel truths. This is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about for awhile. On my mission in Ecuador, we showed the Living Scripture cartoons of the Nativity and the Resurrection in the chapel every night during the Christmas and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=357&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Much Prayer and Fasting</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/07/18/much-prayer-and-fasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that strikes me is the idea that we should be engaged in &#8220;much prayer and fasting&#8221; like the Sons of Mosiah (Alma 17:3)&#8211;especially if we want to be able to teach &#8220;with power and authority of God&#8221;. So here&#8217;s my question&#8211;how much prayer and fasting is enough? Many of us pray several times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=265&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feast upon The Vision</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/07/02/feast-upon-the-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctrine and Covenants 76 has to be one of the most well known if understudied latter day revelations. Missionaries teach about the three degrees of glory, and many of us are motivated to seek the Celestial Kingdom described in the revelation. For a long time its message has seemed pretty obvious to me: people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=246&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fulness of time/times</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/06/18/fulness-of-timetimes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lehi talks about &#8220;the fulness of time&#8221; when Christ would come to redeem his people (2 Nephi 2: 3, 26). In the KJV Bible, we find slightly different phrases including &#8220;fulness of the time&#8221; (Gal 4:4) and &#8220;dispensation of the fulness of times&#8221; (Eph 1:10). This latter phrase is used several times in the Doctrine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=225&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the mouth of a Jew</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/06/06/out-of-the-mouth-of-a-jew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are we to make of the history of the Bible as described in 1 Nephi 13:22-29? According to these verses, we seem to have the following timeline: 1&#8211;the &#8220;record of the Jews, which contains the covenants fo the Lord&#8221; as well as &#8220;many of the prophecies of the holy prophets&#8221; &#8220;proceeded forth from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=211&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday School Lesson #18&#8211;Servants of the LORD</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/05/26/sunday-school-lesson-18-servants-of-the-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 12:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been puzzling over some of the parables in Luke 15 and 17, especially the story found in Luke 17:7-10. To what extent are we to consider ourselves servants of the LORD? And what might that mean? I think to some extent we are more comfortable thinking of ourselves as children of the LORD, perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=187&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feasting</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/04/03/feasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On studying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m preparing a talk for sacrament meeting in a couple weeks, and I&#8217;m the ward sunday school president, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about feasting upon the word. How does the metaphor of feasting influence your own scripture study? One of the things that strikes me about feasting is that it isn&#8217;t a private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=141&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nephi and the Jews?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/04/03/nephi-and-the-jews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m one of those Book of Mormon readers who has a hard time getting past 1 Nephi. Not because I run out of steam there, but because the last few years I&#8217;ve found so much to think about there that I just seem to keep turning back there again and again. For the last few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=140&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of the Lord=Holy Ghost?</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/03/10/spirit-of-the-lordholy-ghost/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/03/10/spirit-of-the-lordholy-ghost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to continue thinking about the Spirit, I&#8217;d like to think a little bit more about the relationship between the Old Testament Spirit (Hebrew:Ruwach&#8211;wind, breath, mind, spirit) of the Lord (Hebrew:YHWY&#8211;&#8221;Jehovah&#8221;) and the New Testament Holy (Greek:Hagios&#8211;holy) Ghost (Greek: Pneuma&#8211;animating spirit, soul, mind). Are these two phrases strictly equivalent? If so, what does that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=124&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Violent Scriptures</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/02/28/violent-scriptures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[On studying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent study (read highlights here), reading violent scriptures can lead BYU students (and presumably others) to become more aggressive. One of the researchers explained the results, &#8220;If one reads the scriptures with an understanding of context, both historical as well as with a (desire) to hear what God is trying to teach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=114&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Anniversary&#8211;D&amp;C 76</title>
		<link>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/02/16/happy-anniversary-dc-76/</link>
		<comments>http://feastuponthewordblog.org/2007/02/16/happy-anniversary-dc-76/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Scripture topics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 175th Anniversary of the vision of the three degrees of glory given to Joseph Smih and Sidney Rigdon at Hiram, Ohio. I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the restoration without this vision, and the resulting D&#38;C 76. Perhaps it is an appropriate time to explore how this vision informs our understanding of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=feastuponthewordblog.org&amp;blog=608683&amp;post=94&amp;subd=feastuponthewordblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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