Posted on July 12, 2008. Filed under: Mormon Life | Tags: Joseph Smith, obedience, Relief Society Lessons |
by EmilyCC
Sadly, our scheduled lesson provider is moving across the country this week and isn’t able to get tomorrow’s lesson up. So, we thought we’d offer an open-thread of thoughts and suggestions for how to teach this lesson. Here are some ideas we thought of (just off the top of our heads).
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Posted on June 10, 2008. Filed under: Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Relief Society Lessons |
From the Life of Joseph Smith
This section emphasizes Joseph Smith’s enthusiasm for proclaiming the gospel, and recounts an instance in which he “arose like a lion about to roar; and being full of the Holy Ghost, spoke in great power, bearing testimony of the visions he had seen, the ministering of angels which he [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2008. Filed under: Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Relief Society Lessons |
By Eve
As always, there are many more questions here than could be covered in one lesson, but I hope that teachers can find something useful to their particular wards, branches, and circumstances.
Section 1: From the Life of Joseph Smith
This section describes the translation and printing of the Book of Mormon and the organization of the [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008. Filed under: Mormon Life, Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Relief Society Lessons, spiritual gifts |
By Deborah
Oh, I want to teach this lesson! I love this topic – love the idea that, by love and grace, we each have gifts that can benefit humanity. I believe that authentic self-worth has its roots in identifying what we have to offer, what we have to give – in seeing ourselves [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2008. Filed under: Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Relief Society Lessons |
The lesson begins with a description of the Joseph Smith’s vision of John the Baptist on the banks of the Susquehanna River. I’d start there. I’m sure this story is told frequently in YM’s and Elder’s quorum, but I don’t know that I’ve heard it mentioned in YW or Relief Society more than [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2008. Filed under: Jesus, Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Jesus, Relief Society Lessons |
by Caroline
This lesson is often focused on J.S.’s testimony of Christ’s reality and his existence as our redeemer. There is not as much here about Jesus’ earthly ministry or about him as our examplar, so I made a conscious effort to play up that angle in this lesson plan.
First section: Joseph (and Oliver) saw Jesus“the [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2008. Filed under: Relief Society Lessons | Tags: Gender roles, feminism, Relief Society Lessons, Heavenly Mother, Relief Society Lesson, Heavenly Father, God |
Did you guess that X2 couldn’t do a post on a RS lesson on Heavenly Father without mentioning Heavenly Mother?
I’ve confined the Heavenly Mother part to one section of the lesson since not all of us want to go there. And, I have 2 versions: “Making a few ladies squirm” and “Going to the bishop’s [...]
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