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 Ephesians. Find helps for children, youth, and adults!
Everyone
Activity – United We Stand – Use this activity to demonstrate the strength that comes when family members work together.
Article – God Speaks to Us through Prophets – This article from ComeuntoChrist.org explains why we have prophets, who they are, and how they impact society.
Article – The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Chart – Putting on the Whole Armour of God – Fill this chart out together as a family to learn more about each piece of armor.
Video – Ye Are No More Strangers – Bible video
Video – The Armour of God – Saints should put on the whole armor of God.
Video – We Don’t Need to Be the Same to Be One – We are different by design.
Video – Why Do We Have Prophets? – Watch this illustrated video with your family to learn about how the Lord provides us with guidance and direction through His prophets.
Video – We Need Living Prophets – Members of the Church across the world bear testimony of living prophets and apostles and speak of the blessings of peace and hope that arise from that knowledge.
Video – Going to Grandma’s – A grandmother plans to spend the day with her granddaughter, but can’t get her to stay buckled in her car seat so they can leave.
Children
Members of the Church should be friends and “fellowcitizens.” We are “fellowcitizens” in the household of God.
Activity – Elder Renlund Visits Children – Print out this coloring page from the “Apostles around the World” series in the Friend to help your children understand what Apostles do.
Heavenly Father wants me to obey and honor my parents.
Activity – 15 Ways to Strengthen Your Family – Have your children do the word puzzles on this activity page from the Friend to learn how they can strengthen their family relationships.
Video – Mothers and Daughters – M. Russell Ballard teaches about the blessings and importance of the special relationship between mothers and daughters.
Video – Fathers and Sons – A young man in Nevada applied the counsel given by M. Russell Ballard and changed his relationship with his father forever.
The armor of God can protect me from evil.
Activity – The Armor of God Can Protect Me From Evil – Paper dolls to color
Activity – “The Armor of Righteousness” – A matching activity about putting on the armor of righteousness.
Activity – “A Shield of Faith” – Print and color an illustrated shield.
Activity – “Sharing Time: Be a Good Example” – Two visual aids compare physical and spiritual armor.
Activity – “The Whole Armor of God” – Includes instructions for making your own armor of God out of simple materials.
Article – “To Be a Knight” – A detailed description of medieval knights and armor.
Poster – The Whole Armor of God – Explains what each piece of armor stands for.
Poster – Awake, my Sons; Put on the Armor of Righteousness
Youth
How Can the Gospel of Jesus Christ Help Me Strengthen My Family?
Article – Recipe for a Happy Family – This New Era article offers nine ways we can strengthen our families, based on principles from the family proclamation.
Article – Gathering the Family of God – God the Father wants His children home again, in families and in glory.
Video – Strengthen Our Families – If the youth learn and teach the gospel with their families the way they do with their leaders, they’ll have powerful experiences that they couldn’t have any other way.
Youth & Adults
God chose, or foreordained, me to fulfill certain responsibilities on earth.
Article – Meeting the Challenges of Today – “The combined doctrine of God’s foreknowledge and of foreordination is one of the doctrinal roads least traveled by, yet these clearly underline how very long and how perfectly God has loved us and known us with our individual needs and capacities.”
Article – Beautiful Babies Blessing the World – God doesn’t use big battalions of soldiers to accomplish His purposes; He sends beautiful babies who go on to bless the world.
Article – You Were Born to Lead, You Were Born for Glory – You simply must understand this, because you were born to lead by virtue of who you are, the covenants you have made, and the fact that you are here now in the 11th hour.
Article – Knowing Who You Are—and Who You Have Always Been – There is nothing more vital to our success and our happiness here than learning to hear the voice of the Spirit. It is the Spirit who reveals to us our identity—which isn’t just who we are but who we have always been. And that when we know, our lives take on a sense of purpose so stunning that we can never be the same again.
God will “gather together in one all things in Christ.”
Article – Gather Together in One All Things in Christ – The power of the Savior’s gospel to transform and bless us flows from discerning and applying the interrelatedness of its doctrine, principles, and practices.
Article – Preparing for the Lord’s Return – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is uniquely empowered and commissioned to accomplish the necessary preparations for the Lord’s Second Coming.
Article – The Restoration of All Things – We believe The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a restoration of the original Church established by Jesus Christ.
The Church is founded on apostles and prophets, and Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone.
Article – We Believe in Following the Prophet – This Ensign article explains our fundamental beliefs regarding living prophets and describes some of the blessings that have come to us through these servants of the Lord.
Article – Prophets, Seers, and Revelators – In this general conference address, Jeffrey R. Holland affirms that the heavens are open and that prophets, seers, and revelators today work under the guidance of the Savior.
Article – The Chief Cornerstone of Our Faith – Gordon B. Hinckley testifies that Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone of our faith. He also teaches that there are other basic cornerstones that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is built upon. Includes a poster.
Article – The Sure Witness of Modern Prophets – Priesthood authority comes only by ordination authorized by the Lord Jesus Christ, who directs His restored Church today.
Article – To Guide Us in These Latter Days – Following the prophets will always lead to promised blessings and personal growth.
Following the Savior’s example can strengthen my family relationships.
Article – 6 Ways to Strengthen Family Love – What are the most important things you could do to strengthen the love in your family? These six are among the best.
Article – Improving Family Relationship – Greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships and to improve the relationships it is very essential to have a proper communication between the family members.
The armor of God will help protect me from evil.
Article – The Armor of God – This Ensign article lists several lessons we can learn from Paul’s military metaphor.
Article – Safe from Satan’s Sting – Learn how keeping the commandments forges a “breastplate of righteousness” that can protect us from Satan’s influence.
Poster – Put on the Armor of God –
Adults
Article – Resilience – Spiritual Armor for Today’s Youth – A great article for parents on how to help their children be more resilient in today’s world. Our children are capable of thriving in the face of today’s challenges. Our charge as parents is to help prepare them to meet those challenges head-on.
Article – Saved and Enabled by the Grace of Jesus Christ – BYU Religious Studies Center
Article – Ephesians: Unfolding the Mysteries through Revelation – BYU Religious Studies Center
Article – Unity and Atonement in Ephesians – BYU Religious Studies Center
Article – The “Same” Organization That Existed in the Primitive Church – BYU Religious Studies Center
Article – Internal Divisions: Ephesians in Historical Context – BYU Religious Studies Center
Chart – Overview of the Epistles: Ephesians – BYU Studies
Chart – Teachings of Peter and Paul About Marriage – BYU Studies
Video – The Acts to Revelation: The Whole Armor of God – Religious scholars discuss Paul’s epistles to the Ephesians which prophecy of the restoration of the gospel in the latter days and the importance of baptism and families. BYUtv
I’m Montserrat. I’m a farmer’s wife, mother of eleven children, and mega chocoholic. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A Gospel Centered Home was created to help parents unleash the power of families by transforming their homes into a sanctuary of faith.
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