Front Matter,
2024
Brigham Young University
Front Matter
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
No abstract provided.
“Be Not Faithless, But Believing”,
2024
Brigham Young University
“Be Not Faithless, But Believing”, Brad Wilcox
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
esus Christ taught Thomas, and through him, all of us, “Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believed” (John 20:29). In the Americas, the Savior taught that those who have not seen and still believe are “more blessed” (3 Nephi 12:2). How are we more blessed not to see Him? By not compelling us to believe, the Lord leaves space for choice and for faith. Choosing faith is the act that welcomes God and Christ into our lives, and their involvement and influence bring the miracle of change. The goal is not just to see God and Christ—one …
Joseph Of Egypt As A Model Of Gospel Living,
2024
Brigham Young University
Joseph Of Egypt As A Model Of Gospel Living, Khumbulani D. Mdletshe
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
In Genesis 37–50, the narrative of Joseph of Egypt offers instructive lessons on the blessings that flow from persevering through trials while honoring covenant commitments with God. Joseph’s capacity to consistently and courageously apply eternal principles when facing abuse, temptation, injustice, and other challenges not only led to his personal success but also proved critical for those whom he served as a slave and prisoner and, once he was elevated to great power in Egypt, for the numerous subjects of Pharaoh’s kingdom during times of famine. This essay identifies and discusses the primary principles that guided Joseph’s efforts to accomplish …
Declared Guiltless Justification By Faith In The Latter-Day Saint Classroom,
2024
Brigham Young University
Declared Guiltless Justification By Faith In The Latter-Day Saint Classroom, Stephan Taeger
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Religious educators can face unique challenges when teaching the doctrine of grace. Some students struggle with excessive guilt and do not think they are doing enough to live the gospel. Others think that grace somehow excuses their sins. Helping students better grasp the doctrine of justification by faith can help them feel peace with God while inspiring them to be more faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. This article uses the words of scripture, modern prophets, and trusted scholars to clarify this doctrine and discusses how understanding it removes guilt and inspires obedience to God’s commandments. The concluding section provides practical …
“An House Of Prayer For All People” A Guide To Christ’S Cleansing Of The Temple,
2024
Brigham Young University
“An House Of Prayer For All People” A Guide To Christ’S Cleansing Of The Temple, Joe Cochran
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
This article explores the contextual background of Christ’s cleansing of the temple as recorded in the four Gospels. An analysis of scriptural and historical evidence can help teachers and learners better understand what Christ cleansed and for whom his actions were undertaken. Discovering specific meaning and purpose behind the Savior’s words and actions in the temple helps establish this event as yet another witness of the loving, compassionate, and justice-seeking Savior we all know well.
Relational Grace The Reciprocal And Binding Covenant Of Charis,
2024
Brigham Young University
Relational Grace The Reciprocal And Binding Covenant Of Charis, Brent J. Schmidt
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
In New Testament times, the concept of grace (Greek charis) was operative in relationships in which a person giving something of value to another could expect the recipient to provide service, thanks, or something else of much lesser value in return. When the Apostle Paul described Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice as a gift (charis), his ancient audiences understood that redemptive act as initiating a covenantal bond with expectations of devoted discipleship. Bible translators have never properly conveyed Paul’s message of active, obliging grace, an oversight that some scholars of the New Pauline Perspective are now demonstrating. During the Great Apostasy, …
Front Matter,
2024
Brigham Young University
Front Matter
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
No abstract provided.
Vital Gospel Nutrients,
2024
Brigham Young University
Vital Gospel Nutrients, Dale G. Renlund
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Instead of sharing “spiritual Twinkies,” or shallow teachings, teachers can provide deep spiritual nourishment to students. Four spiritual principles, or “staples,” are essential to help students grow strong in faith: (1) nurturing students’ testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel, (2) fostering students’ personal relationships with teachers, (3) facilitating students’ confidence in addressing gospel questions, and (4) preparing students’ hearts to feel the Spirit.
Full Issue,
2024
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
No abstract provided.
Helping Students To Take Charge Of Their Own Testimonies,
2024
Brigham Young University
Helping Students To Take Charge Of Their Own Testimonies, Clark G. Gilbert
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
This message focuses on President Russell M. Nelson’s invitation to “take charge of your testimony,” given in a worldwide devotional to young adults. It is meant to be a resource to religious educators to help their students deepen faith. Elder Gilbert shares his own personal faith journey as an example of what it means to work for, own, nurture, and take care of a testimony. Religious educators are given five suggestions to help students take charge of their testimonies: (1) exercise agency, (2) be a light to others, (3) ask questions in faith, (4) look to truth-filled sources, and (5) …
Seminaries And Institutes Reach And Impact Update,
2024
Brigham Young University
Seminaries And Institutes Reach And Impact Update, Chad H. Webb
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
This article highlights efforts of Seminaries and Institutes instructors to support youth and young adults worldwide. It addresses concerns about previously declining institute enrollments, sharing strategies implemented to mitigate and reverse the trend. Feedback from focus groups emphasized the need for relevance, belonging, accessibility, and deepened conversion to Jesus Christ. As a result, initiatives such as workshops, new classes, and online options have been implemented. Notably, institute enrollments have increased by 20 percent, and seminary enrollment has also grown, with the programs adding over 126,000 students in the last three years. It emphasized the need for continual innovation, grounded in …
Addressing The Crisis In Meaning And Identity Through Covenant Relationship,
2024
Brigham Young University
Addressing The Crisis In Meaning And Identity Through Covenant Relationship, Jenet Jacob Erickson
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Our youth are experiencing a profound hunger for connection, evidenced by an epidemic of loneliness and increasing mental health challenges despite the seeming connectivity of a world swimming in social media. The deepest loneliness stems from disruption and disorder in family life, including ruptured or never formed family relationships. In answer to this relational fracturing, the gospel of Jesus Christ offers covenant belonging and connection. The revealed understanding of the nature of our covenant relationship with Jesus Christ and his work in enabling eternal bonds within the family and across the entire eternal family is at the heart of helping …
Institutional Efforts To Amplify Prophetic Messages,
2024
Brigham Young University
Institutional Efforts To Amplify Prophetic Messages, R. Kelly Haws, C. Shane Reese, Chad H. Webb, Brian K. Ashton, Bruce C. Kusch, John S. K. Kauwe Iii, Alvin F. Meredith Iii
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
In this panel, presidents from Church Educational System universities, Ensign College, and the administration of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion consider prophetic priorities, increasing one’s ability to recognize and amplify those teachings, and the blessings that come to young adults and others from understanding prophetic priorities.
Department And Individual Efforts To Amplify Prophetic Messages,
2024
Brigham Young University
Department And Individual Efforts To Amplify Prophetic Messages, Scott C. Esplin, Brad Streeter, Rory Bigelow, Aaron Shumway, David Peck
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
This panel focuses on Church Educational System efforts to follow Elder Clark G. Gilbert’s counsel to amplify prophetic messages. An amplifier takes an input source such as a microphone and increases its amplitude or size and sends it through an output source such as a speaker. Instructors can help students reduce background noise, or contradictory information from sources other than the Savior or prophets.
Expecting More,
2024
Brigham Young University
Expecting More, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Olivia Osguthorpe, Eastin M. Hartzell
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Trying to amplify the words of the prophets while helping religious educators throughout the world understand the hearts and heads of young adult students as they become lifelong disciples of Christ, Barbara Morgan Gardner, professor of Church history and doctrine at BYU; Matthew O. Richardson, professor of Church history and doctrine at BYU; and Sean Dixon, area director in the Utah South Area of Seminaries and Institutes, led a panel of young adult students. The young adult panelists included Matt Conway (Utah Valley University), Zoe Gomez Paz (UVU), Eastin Hartzell (BYU), Abigail Haven (BYU), Micah Johnson (BYU), and Olivia Osguthorpe …
Broken Shelves Or Continuing Revelation? Extending The Shelf Life Of Faith,
2024
Brigham Young University
Broken Shelves Or Continuing Revelation? Extending The Shelf Life Of Faith, Jared M. Halverson
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
Many former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explain their loss of faith with the phrase “My shelf broke.” This is in reference to a well-known analogy by Camilla Kimball in which her shelf was where she kept the questions she could not yet answer, not as a way to avoid those questions but with faith that God would eventually answer them. Based on Sister Kimball’s analogy and the ninth article of faith, this paper suggests that there are actually three shelves rather than one, with a constant interplay between revelation past (shelf 1), revelation present …
End Matter,
2024
Brigham Young University
Perfectionism Across Adolescence,
2024
Brigham Young University
Perfectionism Across Adolescence, W. Justin Dyer
BYU Studies
As a sixteen-year- old on my first date, I had such a nervous tightness in my stomach that, at one point, I ran to the bathroom to throw up. I’d always been somewhat nervous, but it had never bothered me much before. Yet from that time on through my teenage years, any time there was something new happening, I would inevitably have to throw up.
The Pathophysiology Of The Death Of Jesus The Christ,
2024
Brigham Young University
The Pathophysiology Of The Death Of Jesus The Christ, C. Thomas Black
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Centuries-long speculation continues regarding the circumstances surrounding the death of the Savior. Over the past century, the Savior’s tribulations between the Last Supper and his death on the cross have been scrupulously examined from a medical viewpoint. In this article I review many of these studies and, using current medical acumen, propose additional inferences and explanations based on scriptural, medical, and historical accounts. The evidence suggests that at some point between Gethsemane and his last moments on the cross, the Lord’s body was pushed beyond the limit that a normal mortal could endure. The Lord did, however, endure and completed …
Full Issue,
2024
Brigham Young University
Full Issue
Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel
No abstract provided.
