Scripture Study Program

President Hinckley says our children should memorize at least one scripture per week. Do you accept the challenge? (Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p. 344)

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Online reports from General Conference

Teaching the "How and Why" of Prayer - inspired counsel from our leaders

Online Scripture Readers for Children
Four books of scripture stories published by the LDS Church for the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants. All pictures and hyperlinks to scriptures are included.

The Storied Scriptures
by Penny Gardner
Old Testament
New Testament
Book of Mormon

The Storied Scriptures
by Katrina Lybbert
Pearl of Great Price

Book of Mormon Discovery (study program for younger children based on BoM scripture reader, by Rochelle Keogh)

Book of Mormon Study Guide for older children, by Heather Martinson

Who's Who in the Book of Mormon

Plain Book of Mormon. With hundreds of illustrations (paintings, photos and maps), dozens of explanatory notes and color coded text, this site is written on an 8th grade level.

Mormon Converts - Discover inspirational LDS conversion stories of faith and courage.

Doctrine & Covenants locations, wonderful photos and insights.

Online Gospel Art Picture Kit
160 pictures that depict scripture or Church history stories and illustrate gospel principles in action. The texts on the back of the pictures tell the stories and give scripture references for additional study.

Online Gospel Principles Manual

Gospel Principles Study Guide for Children
by Michelle Duker

Book of Mormon Study Guide
for Age of Innocence (0-3 yrs) by Becky Riding

Book of Mormon Illustrated Timeline
Ether and 1 Nephi through Mosiah

Book of Mormon Times at a Glance
Illustrated Timeline
Alma through Mormon and Moroni

School of Abraham New Testament Study Resources
Choose between a 30- or 90-day reading plan, participate in our supplemental readings, master the New Testament scriptures.

New Testament Supplemental Readings - selected articles

Online SEMINARY Student Study Guides
New Testament, Old Testament, Book of
Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants Study Guides

Links to online seminary resources

INSTITUTE Study Guides
Book of Mormon Student Manual
Missionary Preparation Student Readings
The Gospel and the Productive Life
New Testament Student Manual
Eternal Marriage Student Manual
Introduction to Family History
Old Testament Student Manual
Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual
Pearl of Great Price Student Manual
Church History in the Fulness of Times
Presidents of the Church Student Manual
Doctrines of the Gospel Student Manual

Education for Eternity (BYU)
Collection of resources addressing the relationship between academic education and the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Book of Mormon study guide:
A Standard Unto My People.
These three volumes are available free online.

Building Faith with the Book of Mormon :
Free online guide to the Book of Mormon with
study questions

The Word and The Witness
Aid for missionary work and sharing the
Book of Mormon

Read the book Educating Zion online!
Highly recommended reading.

The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens

	Family Home Evening Resource Book Teaching, No Greater Call \| Teaching Guidebook A Parent's Guide \| True to the Faith Guidebook for Parents and Leaders of Youth \| Family Guidebook

Devotionals (text and audio)

Free BYU online courses:
Book of Mormon
Doctrine & Covenants

Additional free online courses from BYU

BYU Broadcasting. BYU Broadcasting's exclusive speeches database features complete information on the talks, speeches, addresses, devotionals and other presentations which can be seen on BYU Broadcasting's distribution networks. Results include links to audio or video archives, transcript information, purchasing information, and future broadcast times (when available).

BYU Digital Collections Library

Links for Primary Manuals Online

I Am a Child of God, Nursery and age 3
Choose the Right A, Ages 4-7
Choose the Right B, Ages 4-7
Book of Mormon, Ages 8-11
Doctrine and Covenants/Church History, Ages 8-11
Old Testament, Ages 8-11
New Testament, Ages 8-11

2004 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation: My Family Can Be Forever

2005 Outline for Sharing Time and the Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation: I Will Follow God's Plan for Me

Online Manuals for self-study for youth ages 12+
Old Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual
New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual
Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual
Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Manual

President Hinckley says our children should memorize at least one scripture per week. Do you accept the challenge?
"May I suggest that in our family night gatherings we make it a project to memorize one scripture citation a week pertinent to this work. At the conclusion of a year our children will have on their lips a fund of scripture which will remain with them throughout their lives."
(Conference Report, April 1959; Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p. 344; Gene R. Cook, Searching the Scriptures: Bringing Power to Your Personal and Family Study, p. 115).

Church Music website. Download a free MP3 version of the hymns, including the children's songs, with and without words. Also multiple other music resources.

Behold Your Little Ones by Boyd K. Packer

A Teacher Come From God by Jeffrey R. Holland

Biography of Bruce R. McConkie, Gospel Scholar

Christ's Ideals for Living by O.C. Tanner

The Family: A Proclamation to the World

The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles

How Old is the Earth? How do I teach my kids about dinosaurs?

Parents can use church magazines and news articles,
maps and chronologies, topical guide, the bible
dictionary to teach their children.

Sample study articles:

How the Bible Came to Be
(series of articles, Ensign, Jan - Sept 1982)

The Great Apostasy as Seen by Eusebius
(Ensign, Nov 1972)

The Tree of Life in Ancient Cultures
(Ensign, June 1988)

Who was the Pharaoh who 'knew not Joseph?'
(Ensign, Dec 1987)

LDS Church Official Web Site

Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History

Brigham Young University Studies

Religious News at Brigham Young University

Church Educational System Official Web Site

LDS Church Educational System Schools

Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS)

The Religious Educator.
The Religious Educator is published two to three times annually.

"In the future, infrequent family scripture study may be inadequate to arm our children with the virtue necessary to withstand the moral decay of the environment in which they will live. Where in the world will the children learn chastity, integrity, honesty, and basic human decency if not at home?

"These values will, of course, be reinforced at church, but parental teaching is more constant. In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. This is especially so when moral foundations of honor and decency are eroding around us. To have successful homes, values must be taught, and there must be rules, there must be standards, and there must be absolutes...."

(James E. Faust, "The Greatest Challenge In The World- Good Parenting", General Conference, October 1990; see Ensign, Nov 1990, p. 33)

"Your commitment to teach the precious children of our Father in Heaven is not alone the long hours you spend in preparation for each class, nor the many hours of fasting and prayer that you may become a more effective teacher. It is the commitment to a life every hour of which is purposefully lived in compliance with the teachings and example of the Savior and of his servants. It is a commitment to constant striving to be evermore spiritual, evermore devoted, evermore deserving to be the conduit through which the Spirit of the Lord may touch the hearts of those you are trusted to bring to a greater understanding of his teachings".
("Four Fundamentals for Those Who Teach and Inspire Youth,"
in Old Testament Symposium Speeches, 1987, 1).

School of Abraham encourages parents to incorporate daily scripture study, not just reading, from the earliest ages with their children. Parents should give prayerful time to learning how to formulate thought-provoking questions for their children to ponder and answer.

Developing a Personal Plan for Studying the Gospel

School of Abraham recommends the use of commentaries and study guides for each of the standard works. With personal research opportunities, the children learn to ponder and apply the scriptures. They come to comprehend why the Lord instructed that "man shall not live by bread alone."

Study Guide for the Proclamation on the Family
by Shiela Lee Brandon

Extensive Online Scripture Study Aids
including maps, photos, and chronologies

Colored photographic facsimile reprint of every page of the original first edition Book of Mormon
(Palmyra, 1830)

Guide to the Life of Christ
Developed by Richard L. Anderson in his long career teaching New Testament classes at BYU, Guide to the Life of Christ, an important study resource, focuses on the Gospels, plus portions of Talmage's Jesus the Christ that discuss Jewish customs and history. Contains 26 lessons. 128 pp.

Guide to Acts and the Apostles' Letters
Developed by Richard L. Anderson in his long career teaching New Testament classes at BYU, Guide to Acts and the Apostles' Letters gives attention to the Mediterranean world and the travels of the apostles in it. Contains 26 lessons. 142 pp

Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions
by James E. Faulconer, 1999, 157 pp., softbound, FARMS.

A Review by Marji Meyer

Highly recommended!

I cannot begin to tell the impact this book has had on my ability to deeply study and analyze the scriptures. Trying to learn the concepts presented in this book have been as challenging as trying to drink water from a barrel. This book is so full of spiritual insight and "tools" with which to further our study of the scriptures that when you read it, and apply what it teaches, your study of the scriptures will raise to a new and exciting level. I highly recommend "Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions" to everyone. This is an excellent text for parents, teachers, and students to learn how to truly feast upon the word of God. Come, read and learn at the feet of a righteous scholar.

This book is so full of insights that you may have to take it in little bites and spend time to think about what he is saying. But I can promise you that the effort to digest and ponder what Brother Faulconer shares in this book is well worth the effort, and that by applying what is taught in "Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions," your study of the scriptures will move beyond the superficial level to a deeper pondering and analysis of the Word of God.

"A profound love for the scriptures has led James E. Faulconer to put together the scripture study plan contained in Scripture Study: Tools and Suggestions. He has spent many years teaching the truths contained in the scriptures to students at Brigham Young University, and in this book he shares the techniques he has refined through personal study and through his work with students." (FARMS review)

From the book: "Rich scripture study is facilitated by tools and techniques that help us focus on what the scriptures can teach us. Faulconer discusses a helpful method and the purpose of outlining, an in-depth method of cross-referencing, how to ask cogent and thought-provoking questions about the scriptures, the benefits of using dictionaries and concordances, the relation between words and ideas apparent through rhetorical studies, and using the valuable reference tools in the LDS edition of the scriptures. He then provides sample notes developed using the study tools he describes to show how research and pondering can make scripture study even more meaningful."

Brother Faulconer describes a personal turning point in his study of the scriptures as a graduate student of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He studied with a Jewish professor the Old Testament for eight weeks. He began by wanting to read just the book of Genesis. His professor was amazed. The professor suggested that they study only chapter one. They made it through three chapters in their eight weeks together.

The author states: "My experience with this kind of scripture study came as a surprise to me, but its effect was profound." The ideas presented in this book will have a profound effect on you as a student of the scriptures, too.

The chapters include:

* Studying the Scriptures
* Outlining
* Asking Questions
* The LDS Edition of the Scriptures
* English Historical Dictionaries
* Cross-referencing
* Doing Bible Research without knowing Hebrew or Greek
* Finding connections through parsing (diagramming
* Rhetoric
* Context
* Sample study notes for Moroni 4
* Writing a Talk from Scripture
Appendix 1: Scripture and History
Appendix 2: Hebrew versus Greek Thinking

The author is dean of General Education and Honors at Brigham Young University, where he is professor of philosophy. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. James E. Faulconer, 1999, 157 pp., softbound, FARMS.

You can order this book today from the BYU bookstore by clicking here . If you are a member of FARMS, don't forget to request your 20% discount.

Cross-referenced family home evening topics (includes magazine articles, music, and gospel art or video suggestions)

Gospel Doctrine Online Class. Complete lecture notes on all four years of scripture study. Extensive use of supplemental resources. This is great for students or parents who serve in auxiliaries and cannot attend class. See also the Gospel Doctrine Forum at the same site.

Scripture Mastery Verses. All 100 verses for your students to memorize. To go with your great list of seminary scriptures,

Scripture Memory Games to enlighten and entertain.

Sing the Scriptures. You guessed it -- scripture mastery put to music. The website has audio links so you can preview the toe-tappin' sound. Great for those audio-visual learners!
Neumann Institute Sunday School Lessons. Catch up on your scripture studies.
Gospel Doctrine Supplement. Increase your understanding of the scriptures with weekly Gospel Doctrine Supplements from renowned Hebrew scholar and literary analyst Avraham Gileadi.

Faith in God for Girls
This guidebook outlines the Faith in God program, which will help girls ages 8 through 11 prepare to become righteous young women and to participate in the Young Women Personal Progress program.

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Faith in God for Boys
This guidebook outlines
the Faith in God program, which will help boys ages 8 through 11 prepare to receive the Aaronic Priesthood and become righteous young men.

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For the Strength of Youth
Young Women Personal Progress
Fulfilling Our Duty to God (Deacon)
Fulfilling Our Duty to God (Teacher)
Fulfilling Our Duty to God (Priest)

From the book:

Educating Zion

Edited by John W. Welch
Don E. Norton

Foreword

History of the Academy
     Karl G. Maeser

Inaugural Address
     Franklin S. Harris

The Church University
     David O. McKay

The Charted Course of the Church in Education
     J. Reuben Clark Jr.

The Calling of BYU
     Ernest L. Wilkinson

Climbing the Hills Just Ahead: Three Addresses
     I   Education for Eternity
     II  Second-Century Address
     III  Installation of and Charge to the President
     Spencer W. Kimball

An Eternal Quest--Freedom of the Mind
     Hugh B. Brown

Installation of and Charge to the President
     Harold B. Lee

Academic Responsibility
     Robert K. Thomas

A House of Faith
     Dallin H. Oaks

By Study and Also by Faith
     Rex E. Lee

A School in Zion
     Jeffrey R. Holland

Spiritual Orientation: Three Addresses
     I    The Edge of the Light
     II   "I Say unto You, Be One"
     III  The Snow-White Birds
     Boyd K. Packer

Discipleship and Scholarship
     Neal A. Maxwell

Our Sacred Trust: Two Addresses
     I  Trust and Accountability
     II  What the Church Expects of Each of Us
     Gordon B. Hinckley

The Dream Is Ours to Fulfill
     Bruce C. Hafen

Learning in Zion: Two Addresses
     I   Secular Learning in a Spiritual Environment
     II  A Zion University
     Merrill J. Bateman

Educating Zion can be purchased online from BYU Studies

Articles in Church Magazines

"Enriching Our Lives through Family Home Evening"
Ensign, June 2003

"Successful Family Home Evenings"
Ensign, June 2003

"Family Home Evening: Counsel and a Promise"
Ensign, June 2003

"Family Home Evening"
Ensign, March 2003

"Teaching Children Principles of Happiness"
Ensign, February 2003

"Family Home Evenings That Work"
Ensign, February 2002

"Family Home Evening: Any Size, Any Situation"
Ensign, December 2001

To be valiant in the testimony of Jesus is to believe in Christ and his gospel with unshakable conviction. It is to know of the verity and divinity of the Lord's work on earth.

But this is not all. It is more than believing and knowing. We must be doers of the word and not hearers only. It is more than lip service; it is not simply confessing with the mouth the divine Sonship of the Savior. It is obedience and conformity and personal righteousness.
(Bruce R. McConkie, Ensign, Nov. 1974, 35)
The Scriptures: Internet Edition
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Basic Beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

During this stressful sojourn on this earth we should make no mistake about who we and others really are. Amid our budding possibilities, in the words of C. S. Lewis we are "In a society of possible Gods and Goddesses,. . . [in which] there are no ordinary people. [We] have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit."

"We are so wound up in programs and statistics and trends, in properties, lands and mammon, and in achieving goals that will highlight the excellence of our work, that we have omitted the weightier matters of the law. However talented men may be in administrative matters; however eloquent they may be in expressing their views; however learned they may be in the worldly things -- they will be denied the sweet whisperings of the Spirit that might have been theirs unless they pay the price of studying, pondering, and praying about the scriptures." (Bruce R. McConkie, Ensign May 1986, 81)