Our oldest son is married to a man. My husband and I have been so thankful for the increased understanding of hesed. As we hold fast to our covenants with the Lord, we can extend hesed to our children. In this way we can become their connection to Christ. What we don't do is promote our son's choices. We've found that there is a difference between loving and supporting our son, and promoting our son's choices. We keep our eyes on Christ and our arms around our child.

When you talked about how Nephi grew into having conversations with God, it reminded me about what President Nelson said in General Conference. "Our prayers can be--and should be--living discussions with our Heavenly Father."

Yes, it does not matter wherever we start from... or where hundreds of other's gossip says we are at... The gossipers and shamers want us to become stuck and fear without their approvals... ! They wish to appear by their own powers to have popular support... do not take the bait ! BE CUATIOUS ! ONLY AND HUMBLY LISTEN TO CHRIST !!!

I really enjoyed this episode today. Thank you for sharing this beautiful discussion about Nephi’s dream.❤

The best rodeo riders get thrown. That is a phrase to remember. Thank you for this podcast!

Thanks so much for a wonderful hour of enlightenment! It was indeed time well spent!

You had two incredibly 1:02:09 great guests today. Thank you

I feel the Spirit is teaching me, and I do wonder how many of us in the church would point the finger at the Lord from the great and spacious building if He were here today. I did appreciate the comments about shame, and how believing Christ may not take the challenge away, still the Lord walks with us. When He was here on earth He was with Mary and associated with those considered in society as unclean, or not understood. We have so many examples of His compassion on those who so called did not fit in. Maybe we are just all required to be with the Lord and know He loves us as we are, where we can move forward He is there but some of us may just have to sit a little longer but we are at the tree because if He is with us guiding us forward at the pace He knows we can move. My insight from my read was the first group that moved forward towards the tree were as you were talking about distracted into sin and away from Christ, Telestial understanding? The next group got all the way to the tree Christ but were distracted by shame, from the mockers over the way in the great and spacious building. Terrestrial understanding? While the third group believed and knew Christ was for them and they trust in Him and follow as best they can. It may take time but they trust, not only are they enough but Christ is enough for them. Celestial understanding? What do you think?

All I can say is that this podcast was amazing!!! Thank you for those powerful insights!

Even Nephi’s belief is a gift from God! That’s a new insight for me to think on. I also appreciated the insights on 10:6. Thank you!

Thank you both for this conversation. As you were talking about the “Wise purpose in Him” and the lost pages, as I looked back at the introduction and at the testimonies of Nephi, Mormon and Moroni… WOW… what if the wise purpose was-even more than foreseeing a setback-the power of three firsthand witnesses? Am I right in thinking the lost pages were translated from Mormon’s abridgment? I think so… so there would have only been two actual writers (yes, directly quoting at times from other writers, of course), but wow. Wow. Wow. Reading in 1 Nephi 12 where Nephi sees what is going to happen at the end of the book, and thinking of Mormon and Moroni writing as it all “came to pass” as Nephi had written… it used to bother me that Nephi had to see the destruction of his people, but suddenly that feels so significant, that Nephi bear a testimony in his own hand as the one who begins the testimony, to witness the end (and the restoration) as an echo from the past. 43:04

Would you please put a link in one of your podcasts to the Patreon site you mentioned with all of the resources you have for us to access. I cannot seem to pull it up with the info you gave. This was wonderful - thank you so much!

Love the deep dive! Thank you.

I believe Laman and Lemuel were typical of most Jews at the time, they were strict adherents to the Law of Moses and were routinely “looking beyond the mark”. They were also adherents to the laws implemented by Josiah. Which is to say they rejected the revelations given to their father and Nephi of the divine birth of the Savior, the Tree of Life, etc.