In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the twelfth lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (Mar. 13-19) covers Matthew 11-12, and Luke 11 - and is titled "I Will Give You Rest".

We invite you to worship with us on any Sunday - either at First Baptist Church of Provo or Christ Presbyterian Church in Magna. We welcome visitors!

LDS Sources:

Matthew 11:28-30; Mark 2:23-3:6 (Sunday School Manual)

Bear Up Their Burdens With Ease (David Bednar)

The New Testament Made Easier by David Ridges

A Rational Theology by John A. Widtsoe

D&C 130:20-21

Note: D&C 130 was also a source of the expectation among LDS leaders that Jesus would come back in around 1890:

• Prophet/President Wilford Woodruff, alone, predicted British LDS would remain on earth "until the coming of Christ" (Jan. 26, 1840); told the LDS in northern Arizona "There will be no United States in the year 1890" (June 28, 1879); stated (by revelation) that the second coming was "nigh at the door" (Jan. 26, 1880); promised LDS in Manti "that thousands of the children...would not die but would live to see the Saviour come" (Aug. 14, 1881); told LDS in St. George that "there were thousands living in [the] mountains at [that] time that would see the son of God come and many would not taste death" (Mar. 20, 1881) - and similar predictions on Dec. 31, 1885, and then on Feb. 16, 1886. And that is just one of the early apostles/prophets! (As a Thief in the Night by Dan Erickson, pp. 83, 187-88, 190-191, 197)

It should be noted that this is the context for the Manifesto on polygamy - esp. in light of Wilford Woodruff (then senior apostle!) even prophesying in the Manti Temple that "we are not going to stop the practice of plural marriage until the coming of the Son of man." (ibid., p.200, also here)

The Vanishing Lamanites (Jason Wallace)

The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race" by Jason Colavito

Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (esp. ch.'s 5-6,13, and 24)

Temple Made With Hands? (Jason Wallace)

Divinity School Address (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The American Religion by Harold Bloom

Resources:

Definition of Chalcedon (Sinclair Ferguson)

• The Defense of the Faith (esp. pp.37-39); or Christian Apologetics (esp. pp. 46-51) by Cornelius Van Til
• The Incarnation of God by John Clark and Marcus Johnson (ch. 1)

Saved By Grace Through Faith (White Horse Inn; also here)

What is the Gospel? (Voddie Baucham)

Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen

Christless Christianity by Michael Horton (also here and here)

Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers (also here and here)

The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity by Michael Kruger

Matthew (The Expositor's Bible Commentary) by D.A. Carson (also here)

Cultish: Debunking the Cosmic Christ of the New Age (Part 1, Part 2)

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

The Gospel of Matthew (NICNT) by R.T. France

Kenneth Bailey on Luke 15.11-24