Episode 16
Friday, October 2
35 min · 12 videos · Church News, RISE ZION, Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones, Standard of Truth, followHIM Podcast, Scripture Central, Unshaken
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In this episode
Why one institute student says inviting friends is 'the easiest invite ever'
4:50Church News · 4 min
Returned missionary Kaleb Jones has invited roughly 40 young adults to the Utah Valley Institute of Religion, an example of the Church's "Invite a Friend" push in institute's 100th year.
How thousands strengthened their faith during a Texas women's conference
7:19Church News · 3 min
The 2026 Faithful & Loved Women's Conference drew thousands from the United States Southwest Area to Denton, Texas, on September 19 for devotionals, workshops and service projects.
How young adults from Italy and Malta are sharing Christ's light through service
9:18Church News · 2 min
Two August service projects by young single adults from Malta and Sicily: one at a Rome refugee organization during a temple trip, and one with homeless families at YMCA Malta.
New Area Seventy sustained at October 2026 general conference leadership meeting
10:49Church News · 1 min
One new Area Seventy, Elder David Kannar of Australia, was sustained at the October 2026 general conference leadership meeting on October 1, and one was released.
Thousands attend 'Walk With Me' youth concert in the Philippines
12:05Church News · 2 min
More than 4,100 youth and young single adults gathered in Cagayan de Oro on September 19 for a Church concert built on the 2026 youth theme, "Walk with me."
Nauvoo Temple
13:36Church News · 8 min
The Church News almanac entry for the original Nauvoo Temple, from the 1841 revelation to its destruction, its 2002 rebuilding and the visitors' center Elder Gong dedicated in June 2026.
Outdoor Boys' Luke Nichols says he heard a voice
16:31RISE ZION · 26 min
A walkthrough of Luke Nichols's September 29 BYU–Hawaii devotional, where the Outdoor Boys creator and former defense attorney argues that saying "I know God lives" is witness testimony, backed by his mission story of a voice that led him to a lost member.
Joseph Grenny on how people actually change
19:38Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones · 75 min
Joseph Grenny, of *Crucial Conversations* and The Other Side Academy, draws on his son's heroin addiction and 11 years living alongside former criminals to explain how people actually change, mapped onto scripture.
Did Brigham revise Joseph's journal?
24:15Standard of Truth · 67 min
A mailbag episode where historian Garrett Dirkmaat answers a listener whose sister, newly baptized into the Bickertonite Church of Jesus Christ, says Brigham Young rewrote Joseph Smith's journal to plant polygamy.
Come Follow Me: Isaiah 44 through 46, and a first look at Isaiah 50 through 57
28:02followHIM Podcast · 6 min
A single story for Isaiah 55's "my ways are not your ways": the Saints buried the Salt Lake Temple foundation ahead of Johnston's Army in 1857, and uncovering it years later revealed cracks that led to the granite foundation.
Scripture Central · 37 min
John Hilton III teaches Isaiah 50–54 and 56 as four messages of hope (in exile, in the courtroom, in our day, and for the excluded), with a class sharing responses along the way.
Unshaken · 40 min
A verse-by-verse reading of Isaiah 44–46 built on its central contrast: idols that must be carved, nailed down and carried, against a God who names Cyrus in advance and carries his people like a mother.
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