Wednesday, September 16

Church News · 19 min

Elizabeth and Giovanni Guanuna, the first couple sealed in the San Diego California Temple in May 1993, walk the grounds during the August 2026 rededication weekend and talk about what 33 years of covenant keeping produced in their family.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 12 min

Tammy Hall and Dr. Donald W. Parry walk selected verses of Isaiah 40 to make one point for a 20-minute Sunday class: Jehovah is omnipotent, and the reason Isaiah says so is to comfort covenant people rather than to overawe them.

Unshaken · 25 min

Jared Halverson walks Isaiah 5 straight through, from the song of the vineyard and its six woes to the swift messengers passage at the end, reading the chapter as a prophecy of the scattering that closes with a picture of the gathering.

RISE ZION · 30 min

Seth walks through Elder David A. Bednar's September 13 Utah Area young single adult devotional, where Bednar ran the meeting as an open scripture discussion instead of an address and told teachers not to rush to fill silence in the new 25-minute Sunday classes.

followHIM Podcast · 7 min

Hank Smith and John Bytheway trade two temple stories for the Isaiah 2 week of Come Follow Me, one about a Thailand mission jumping on their beds at midnight over a temple announcement and one about a Tongan family who spent six years saving to reach the Hamilton New Zealand temple.

Thoughtful Faith · 23 min

A clipped segment from Brian Davilla's show The Way, in which Jacob Hansen presses a group of Catholic apologists with the "creation dilemma" argued in Hayden Carroll's book: if God creates from nothing with full foreknowledge, how is creating a person he knows will be damned an act that wills that person's good?

The Stick of Joseph · 84 min

Will Bretey, a 24-year-old premed student who submitted himself as a guest, argues that glory in scripture is a substance with weight rather than an abstraction, and builds from the Hebrew *kavod* to an answer for how Moses and Joseph Smith stood in God's presence without being consumed.