Comments on: In Our Ward: Lesson 30: “Come to the House of the Lord” http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/15/in-our-ward-lesson-30-come-to-the-house-of-the-lord/ Where our past is never very long ago Sun, 19 May 2013 03:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/15/in-our-ward-lesson-30-come-to-the-house-of-the-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-25137 Ardis E. Parshall Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:17:25 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7867#comment-25137 Aargh! I know my geography better than that. Thanks, Allison, I’ll fix it.

]]> By: Allison in Atlanta http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/15/in-our-ward-lesson-30-come-to-the-house-of-the-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-25118 Allison in Atlanta Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:22:53 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7867#comment-25118 Iraq is the main home of ancient Babylon although some of it is in modern Iran. Assyria covered most of Syria and some of the area modern Iraq now covers. Saddam Hussein ruined the archealogical site believed to be the city of Babylon by building a monument to himself on it.

I do appreciate all your narrative as I don’t get as much in my own class. My class does cover the more spiritual aspects of the message which I appreciate. Since we have our temple in Atlanta closed and being remodeled, we all felt the “hole” in our lives more today as we discussed this lesson. But we can look forward to the dedication early next year!

Allison

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2010/08/15/in-our-ward-lesson-30-come-to-the-house-of-the-lord/comment-page-1/#comment-25112 Ardis E. Parshall Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:35:45 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=7867#comment-25112 Probably 90% of my lessons are heavy on class participation with me acting mostly as a discussion leader; once in a while, though, a lesson is dependent on a factual narrative rather than on personal experience. Even with all the narrative here (all right, even with all the lecturing), we still had some periods of great discussion, particularly following the question about how turning away from the gospel can affect your posterity (they put a positive spin on the hope that children sometimes deliberately choose to turn from a parent’s sins back to a better life) and about how the Lord heals those who return, even when people make their first awkward steps to come back to church, as when the people had forgotten the proper rituals associated with the Passover in Hezekiah’s day. We had to move fast with a lesson as detailed as this one, but I think it worked.

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