Stumbling as I Follow-a Come Follow Me podcast

Hey there! Have you been wondering what the heck happened to me? Here's an explanation and an experience I've recently had that strengthened my testimony. Check out stumblingasIfollow.com for pictures.

He is not here: for he is risen. “These are the most reassuring words in all of human history. Death--universal and final--had now been conquered… “Never had this occured before. There had been only death without hope. Now there was life eternal.” -Gordon B. Hinckley

With my two biggest helpers away at scout camp this week, this episode was hard for me to find the time to complete. It was worth the struggle. I got completely caught up in wanting to understand and feeling compassion for Pilate. Listen as I share what I thought and felt as we studied about Jesus time spent in captivity and on the cross.

The episode is short and sweet, but I learned so much this week. Please combine this with the Easter episode "O Grave, Where is Thy Victory?" They are like peanut butter and chocolate, good on their own, but phenomenal when together.

Somehow in this episode I start off talking about dirty feet and end up talking about eternal life. :)

Our journey through gospel progression can be boiled down to know, do, be. I discuss how this week's Come Follow Me lesson got me thinking about that and how I can be better at living a Christlike life.

In this lesson we’ll look at parables and other ways that Jesus taught how we can progress and become better disciples. We’ll talk about the rich young ruler, Peter’s question about the reward he will receive, the Importunate Widow and more.

When things of value become lost, we search until we find them. What are we doing to build up our spiritual wealth to ensure riches throughout eternity?

A look at the meaning behind the stories of the woman taken in adultery and the man born blind.

There is great joy and love for you whether you are a lost sheep returning or a steady ninety-niner never straying. We are a family, when the shepherd left to find the one, that one was somebody’s child, somebody’s brother or sister, somebody’s dear friend. Just like I couldn’t rest until all my little sheep were safely in our home corral we should not be content with the ninety and nine. We need to reach out to the one.

If you only ever listen to one episode of this podcast, let it be this one. My testimony of the atonement and resurrection. (PS if you are like me and cry when other people do, I'm sorry.)

The second of two episodes covering the Thou Art the Christ lesson in the Come Follow Me curriculum, including the Mount of Transfiguration and the healing of a boy sore vexed.

The first of two episodes covering this lesson in the Come Follow Me manual. I share my insights on the leaven of the Pharisees and Peter's declaration that Jesus is The Christ.

My thoughts as I studied the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus and Peter walking on the water and more.

My thoughts on the parables of the sower, the leaven, the net and the barren fig tree.

A look at the Come Follow Me lesson on the chapters Matthew 10-12; Mark 2; Luke 7;11 with a focus on prophets and apostles.

A look at the Come Follow Me lesson on Matthew 8-9 and Mark 2-5

This week on Stumbling as I Follow we’ll continue our study of The Sermon on the Mount. We’ll talk about prayer, the choices we make, sailing the Straits of Magellan and we might even sing a song about a Wise and a Foolish man.

My take on the Beatitudes.

This week we will study when Jesus turns water into wine, the cleansing of the temple, Nicodemus and what it means to be born again, and the woman at the well.