Lesson 22: Alma 5

[All-American]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Maybe I missed something, but are we suddenly trying to debunk Alma 5? Bringing up the 30-150 year old topics is almost invariably with the purpose of trying to show how wrong/uninspired/racist/stupid/unlearned/evil/naive/ignorant past church leaders were.

I believe he's being sarcastic.

[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by All-American

I believe he's being sarcastic.

Yes.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I always enjoy reading your lesson outlines. thanks for posting them.

Truthfully, i find your lesson outlines to be some of the most valuable stuff on this site. Too bad there is not a fast and simple way to access all of them in an organized manner. They are nice resources as a companion to study or lesson prep.

EDIT: actually, i linked to your blog. i guess they are all organized there? nice.

Sorry, I was away this morning. I will try to catch up on the comments.

Thanks, DDD. Yep, all my New Testament lessons (45 of them) are still available on the blog. I do have a whole bunch of OT lessons that I never posted that maybe I should add but they are rougher because they were never intended to be public notes.

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

His lesson above is particular powerful and inspiring.

Especially Sec II-(B).

For some reason I thought of you when I wrote that section.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

I hope you keep your blog online for a long time. This is a great resource.

Ya, I thought about taking it down a couple of weeks ago because I am not doing anything with it but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

[pelagius]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Alma 5 is easiliy one of the greatest chapters in scripture.

I've come around in terms of Alma 5. It was never a particularly meaningful chapter to me. I kind of associated it with (in my view) kitschy or overly sentimental music. But preparing the lesson notes changed my view quite a bit. It really is a great sermon. I think my basic problem was I had a hard time seeing the big picture. I would get a little lost in the rapid far onslaught of the questions. Taking time to understand the structure and different parts was very rewarding for me.

I small plug. I prepped my lesson using Grant Hardy's Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition. I really like it (http://books.google.com/books?id=Nj6...xWGF3LBlaAQZGk ). I struggled coming up with stuff in my first read through using the standard edition. I might be alone, but I really like paragraphs and modern typographic conventions. Anyways, probably not everyone will find it helpful but I find it quite useful.