Gospel Doctrine Lesson 22 Activity and Supplement Ideas

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David and Goliath cartoon

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This Week’s Lesson: The Lord Looketh on The Heart

Supplemental Audiovisual Resources

These resources can be downloaded or streamed and played directly in your classes.

“Trust in the Lord,” Elder Richard G. Scott—October 1995 General Conference

Mormon Messages

These videos, produced by the church, can help provide a powerful punch to your lesson.

“Easily Guided”

“Men’s Hearts Shall Fail Them”

“The Will of God”

“Trusting in the Lord”

Quotable and Inspired Text

Here’s some resources from other talks and manuals about similar subjects that you can peruse.

“The Tragic Dimensions of Saul,” Richard G. Ellsworth

“A King for Israel”

Old Testament Seminary Student Study Guide—1 Samuel 15

Alternate Activity Ideas

Since every class has different needs, we brainstormed a few extra ideas for class activities that might prove useful to you.

CHOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Analyze Saul’s decision-making process as you read the account in 1 Samuel with the class. Divide the board into “The Lord’s Understanding” and “Saul’s Understanding” and explore in a discussion the consequences of following each.

SMALL AND SIMPLE THINGS

While discussing the Lord’s selection of the boy David as the next King, draw parallels between that calling and others the Lord has extended to those considered by the world’s standard to be “weak” (Moses, Enoch, Joseph Smith). Study Alma 37:6, and prepare questions as guided by the Spirit that can initiate a thought-provoking discussion.

Seth has been an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since the age of eight. In his youth he tried to kill his poor parents by deliberately involving himself in more extracurricular activities than either of them had time or mortal energy to drive him to. Luckily for him, his parents are superhuman. Seth played soccer, hockey and any other team sport that involved arms, legs and fast-moving rubber spheroids, wrote short stories, poetry and music, and was far too involved in his High School's drama and mock trial programs for his social life's own good. Ice hockey stuck. So did writing. Seth doesn't know everything--but he knows that God and Jesus Christ live, that They love us, and that They always keep Their promises.