What Lack I Yet? – Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18

Free resources from church websites to help you teach the doctrine and principles found in this week’s Come, Follow Me New Testament reading for Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18. Find helps for children, youth, and adults!

Everyone

Video – Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me – Bible video

Video – Christ and the Rich Young Ruler – Bible Video

Video – Laborers in the Vineyard – Bible video

Children

Podcast – Jesus Blesses the Children – A Primary teacher and children talk about the Savior’s love for little children. We also learn of His commandment that all of us should be like little children so that we may live with Heavenly Father again. Little children find happiness by spending time with family and friends, and not by seeking after riches and other things of the world. It is through our willingness to sacrifice worldly things that we come to find what really is important—following the Savior.

Heavenly Father wants us to marry in the temple and have eternal families.

Activity/Article – The Greatest Gift – A retelling of the story of Isaac and Rebekah and an explanation of why it is important to marry in the covenant. Includes a puzzle activity.

Article – Temple Blessings – Dieter F. Uchtdorf describes going to the temple with his parents and siblings to be sealed together as a family.

Story – A Wedding Dress and a Plan – A girl decides that she wants to follow her older sister’s example by going to the temple.

Story – Alonso’s Forever Family – Alonso has the opportunity to be sealed to his parents and sister who have died.

Jesus wants little children to come to Him so He can bless them.

Activity – Jesus Wants Little Children to Come to Him – Coloring page

Activity – Jesus Blesses the Little Children – coloring page

Activity – Jesus Christ Blesses the Little Children – coloring page

Article – Heavenly Father, Are You Really There? – a lesson with an activity about prayer

Poster – Jesus Christ with the Children – print and hang in your home

Video – Jesus Blesses the Children – New Testament scripture reader

If I obey the commandments, I can receive eternal life.

Activity/Article – Decide Right Now – Thomas S. Monson teaches that it is easier to obey commandments 100 percent of the time than 98 percent of the time. Also includes two simple activities.

Activity6/Article – Sharing Time: Keep the Commandments – Includes an activity where children can envision themselves getting closer to the Savior as they keep the commandments.

Article – Friend to Friend: Life Lessons – Lynn A. Mickelsen tells a story to illustrate if we keep commandments when we are young, we will train ourselves to stay close to our Heavenly Father.

Video – The Rich Young Man – New Testament scripture reader

Jesus can help me know what I need to do to progress.

Activity – Jesus Loves Me – coloring page

Activity – I Can Follow Jesus Christ’s Example – A scripture journal activity for older children

Video – The Pharisee and the Publican – New Testament scripture reader

Youth and Adults

Teaching Resources – Come Follow Up: Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18 – Artwork, quotes, and video clips to aid teachers in leading the discussion for this lesson.

Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God.

Article – Celestial Marriage – [The] proclamation on the family helps us realize that celestial marriage brings greater possibilities for happiness than does any other relationship.

Article – In Partnership with the Lord – The restored gospel of Jesus Christ proclaims the principle of full partnership between woman and man, both in mortal life and in the eternities.

Article – Eternal Families – Our priesthood obligation is to put our families and the families of those around us at the center of our concern.

Article – Why Marriage? Why Family? – A family built on the marriage of a man and woman supplies the best setting for God’s plan to thrive.

Article – We’ll Ascend Together – As covenant-keeping women and men, we need to lift each other and help each other become the people the Lord would have us become.

Article – Defenders of the Family Proclamation – Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home.

Did Jesus teach that divorce is never acceptable or that divorced people should not remarry?

Article – Divorce – A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

Article – Marriage and Divorce – Divorce can never really be final. How can mothers and fathers really divorce themselves from their own flesh and blood children, or from the memories of days and years of shared experiences which have become part of their very lives.

If I ask the Lord, He will teach me what I need to do to inherit eternal life.

Article – Meeting the Challenges of Today’s World – The choices you make—mission, education, marriage, career, and service in the Church—will shape your eternal destiny.

Article – What Lack I Yet? – If we are humble and teachable, the Holy Ghost will prompt us to improve and lead us home, but we need to ask the Lord for directions along the way.

Everyone can receive the blessing of eternal life, no matter when they accept the gospel.

Article – Parables of Jesus: The Laborers – The Lord invites each of us to examine our motives for serving in His kingdom.

Article – The Laborers in the Vineyard – Please listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit telling you right now, this very moment, that you should accept the atoning gift of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Savior will guide us closer to Him as we ask for His help.

Article – Yes, Lord, I Will Follow Thee – The Lord invites us using various verbs: “Come unto me,” “Follow me,” “Walk with me.” In each case it is an invitation to act.

Article – The Peaceable Followers of Christ – An address given by Boyd K. Packer at the Church Educational System fireside at BYU on 1 February 1998

Article – Then Jesus Beholding Him, Loved Him – Anytime you feel you are being asked to do something hard, think of the Lord beholding you, loving you, and inviting you to follow Him.

Article – Like a Flame Unquenchable – One thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. … Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness.

Video – Convenience versus Covenants – (Matthew 19:27–29) An excerpt from “Like a Flame Unquenchable,” Ensign, May 1999

I should trust God’s mercy, not my own righteousness.

Article – The Pharisee and the Publican – To know the background of these two men who came from the opposite extremes of Jewish society helps us to understand this parable of the Pharisee and tax collector and why they prayed as they did in the temple.

Article – The Seasons of His Mercy – I believe that it is important to see God’s mercies each day, each hour, each breath, a whole life long. If we can learn to see them more clearly, it will surely make spring term better, and—we hope—it will affect eternity.

Article – Remember How Merciful the Lord Hath Been– There are clusters of memories embedded in each of your lives. And these can help us to “remember how merciful the Lord hath been.”

Video – The Pharisee and the Publican – (Luke 18:9–14) An excerpt from “The Pharisee and the Publican,” Ensign, May 1984

Adults

Article  –The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican – New Testament Institute Study Manual

Article – “What Therefore God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder” – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – The Influence of Faith on Marital Commitment – BYU Religious Studies Center

Video – Come Follow Up: Matthew 19-20; Mark 10; Luke 18 – Come Follow Up host Ben Lomu leads the discussion with gospel scholar Melissa Inouye and special guest Jason Whiting on the following topics: If I Ask the Lord, He Will Teach Me What I Need to Do to Inherit Eternal Life and What Does God Want for Our Family Relationships?  BYUtv (55:01 minutes)