In this episode, Brendon and Skyler discuss the fifty-second lesson in the LDS Come, Follow Me sunday school manual. This week (December 18-24) is titled “Good Tidings of Great Joy” and covers Christmas.
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Pastor Brendon's Colossians series can be found here and/or here.
Gospel Principles ; here and here
Statements of the LDS First Presidency compiled by Gary Bergera
Joseph Smith told Alexander Neibaur that he saw Jesus with a light complexion (white skin) and blue eyes (A.N. Journal, May 24,1844) - thus, looking a lot like...Joseph Smith. Whiteness is also true of Mary in 1 Nephi 11.13-15, who is even claimed by some LDS to be from England, based on legend.
Brigham Young: JD 7.289; 10.324-325
“Remembering Christmas Past” by Larry Porter
“Nephi and His Asherah” by Daniel Peterson (also here, here, and here)
“For Mormons, Christmastime Is For Honoring Jesus – and Joseph Smith” by Sharon Lindbloom
Christmas Books (MRM) by Eric Johnson
The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation by Andreas Kostenberger and Alexander Stewart
Why God Became Manby Anselm
On the Incarnation of Our Lordby Athanasius
Nativity Sermons I-VIII by Pope Leo the Great
Sermons to the People: Advent, Christmas, New Year, Epiphany by Augustine
Christianity and Liberalism; The Virgin Birth of Christ by J. Gresham Machen
Miracles by C.S. Lewis
The Incarnation of God by John Clark and Marcus Johnson
The Birth of Christ by J.V. Fesko
