Links to free resources for children, youth, and adults to enhance the Come, Follow Me reading of Doctrine and Covenants 133-134. Choose one thing a day to do with your children or choose a couple to do for family home evening. All links are to church websites or websites approved for further gospel study.
Everyone
Music – Savior, Redeemer of My Soul – Beautiful rendition of this hymn text written Orson F. Whitney, melody by Rob Gardner.
Music – When He Comes Again – Listen to the Tabernacle Choir sing this Primary song.
Saints, Volume 1 – Incline Them to Gather – Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations
Sing Along – When He Comes Again – Gather the family to sing this Primary song together.
Sing Along – When I Return to Him – Gather the family to sing this Primary song together.
Video – What is Religious Freedom? – Cartoon drawing about religious freedom. (4:06 minutes)
Children
Activity – The Lord Wants Me to Obey the Law – Map and coloring
Activity – Religious Freedom – Maze
Activity – Article of Faith 12 – Circle the title of your country’s leader, write your address and country, draw your country’s flag.
Activity – What Laws Mean – A matching activity about different laws.
Activity – Jesus Christ Will Come Again – Color the flannel-board figures and use them to tell about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Activity/Article – Article of Faith 12 – Learn more about this article of faith and do the challenges.
Activity/Article – Sharing Time: Obey the Law – Includes instructions for making a coat of arms.
Activity/Article – Article of Faith 10 – An explanation of the Article of Faith and how it declares our faith in the Second Coming. Incudes a simple activity.
Activity/Article – Sharing Time: I Believe That Jesus Will Come Again – Includes an explanation of the parable of the ten virgins and a coloring activity about preparing for the Second Coming.
Activity/Article – Sharing Time: What a Joyful Day – Includes an activity to color various pictures of activities that can prepare children for the Second Coming.
Article – The Latter Days – M. Russell Ballard teaches about having courage in the days before the Savior’s Second Coming.
Video – More Trouble with the Saints – Doctrine and Covenants Scripture Reader
Youth
Article – Preparing for the Second Coming – from a CES fireside by Jeffrey R. Holland
Article – What Joseph Taught: The Second Coming – Joseph Smith learned much about the Savior’s Second Coming and millennial reign.
Article – How to Prepare for the Second Coming – From a General Conference address by Dallin H. Oaks
Article – To the Point: How do you know if you’re ready for the Second Coming? – from the New Era
Article – Articles of Faith: What Abraham’s Covenant Means to You – Delve deeper into the Tenth Article of Faith
Article – Articles of Faith: Riot! – Delve deeper into the Twelve Article of Faith. I learned how inspired the Prophet Joseph Smith was when he wrote the twelfth article of faith and how important it is that we live by its principles. Without laws and obedience to those laws, anarchy would reign. We would live in fear instead of freedom.
Article – Questions and Answers – How Do I Prepare for the Second Coming?
Article – To the Point: How can we honor and sustain the law if our government makes unrighteous choices? – from the New Era
Article – Why Obey? – As great as He was, the Savior was still obedient to His Father. As we seek to follow His example, we too must become obedient children.
Youth & Adults
Article – Come to Zion – To come to Zion, it is not enough for you or me to be somewhat less wicked than others. We are to become not only good but holy men and women. Recalling Elder Neal A. Maxwell’s phrase, let us once and for all establish our residence in Zion and give up the summer cottage in Babylon.
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 – Terror Triumph, and a Wedding Feast – We should watch for the signs and read the meaning of the seasons, we should live as faithfully as we possibly can, and we should share the gospel with everyone so that blessings and protections will be available to all. But we cannot and must not be paralyzed just because that event and the events surrounding it are out there ahead of us somewhere. We cannot stop living life. Indeed, we should live life more fully than we have ever lived it before. After all, this is the dispensation of the fulness of times.
Article – William McLellin’s Five Questions – Revelations in Context
Article – Of Governments and Laws – Revelations in Context
Article – American Legal and Political Institutions – Church History Topics
Article – Council of Fifty – Church History Topics
Article – Endowment of Power – Church History Topics
Article – Solemn Assemblies – Church History Topics
Video – Preserving Religious Freedom – Why should we preserve religious freedom? (8:44 minutes)
Video – Everyday Example: Religion in the Workplace – A new series of dramatized videos produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows members how to navigate the landmine-laced terrain of the sensitive social and religious issues of the day. (6:10 minutes)
Video – Everyday Example: When Beliefs are Questioned – A new series of dramatized videos produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows members how to navigate the landmine-laced terrain of the sensitive social and religious issues of the day. (12:47 minutes)
Video – Everyday Example: Prayer in School – A new series of dramatized videos produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows members how to navigate the landmine-laced terrain of the sensitive social and religious issues of the day. (4:48 minutes)
Adults
Article – Preserving Agency, Protecting Religious Freedom – The faithful use of our agency depends upon our having religious freedom.
Article – Section 133, The Lord’s Appendix to the Doctrine and Covenants – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual
Article – Chapter 53: Doctrine and Covenants 133 – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual
Article – Section 134, Earthly Governments and Laws – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual
Article – Chapter 54: Doctrine and Covenants 134–36 – Doctrine and Covenants Institute Student Manual
Article – The Restoration of All Things – BYU Religious Studies Center
Article – By All Means – BYU Religious Studies Center
Podcast – Saints, Volume 1: Round Up Your Shoulders – Joseph Smith announces his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States under a platform of religious liberty for all. The Council of Fifty is organized and proposes future gathering places for the Saints. Joseph gives all priesthood keys to The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Church Historian Matt Grow weighs in on these events in Church history.
Video – Discussions on the Doctrine and Covenants: D&C 134 Governments Were Instituted of God – Religious Scholars discuss these sections. 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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