Spencer McBride: The Farm Boy’s Prayer Heard ’round the World

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

What has Spencer McBride, host of "The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast," learned from devoting years of his life to studying the Prophet's personal letters and journals? On today’s episode, McBride shares what led Joseph to the grove, how studying the First Vision can teach us about personal revelation, and how the farm boy's life has forever changed his own.

“When you look back on Church history and you see what God can do with ordinary people back then, it reminds you of what He can do with ordinary people in our own time.”

Show Notes

3:25- A Once in a Lifetime Project
5:39- The Context of the Vision
8:05- “To Him, It Was About Salvation”
10:45- Shining Moments and Mistakes
13:50- An Ordinary Man Doing Something Incredible
17:46- An Intellectual and Emotional Pursuit
19:56- What the Restoration Is
21:38- Everyone Is At Some Point A Convert
25:40- How Teenage Worries and Anxieties Led To The Grove
27:25- “For good and evil among all nations”
29:27- Maintaining Faith While Exploring History
35:38- A Prolonged Process Vs. A Miraculous Moment
40:24- What Does It Mean To Be “All In” the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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0:00.0	Before we get into this week's episode, I want to remind you that I'm recording just the
0:05.2	intros and extras from home. After the intro, your sound quality will be totally back to normal,
0:11.8	so hang in there folks. Speaking of hanging in there, man, what a weird time to be alive.
0:19.1	I wanted to invite you though to join me this week and praying not only for the decision makers
0:24.7	in our countries and communities to be guided as they make some of the most important decisions
0:30.0	of their lives, but also for doctors, researchers, and scientists who are working hard to combat
0:36.9	COVID-19. Today's episode is all about a young voice prayer that brought about miracles,
0:44.1	and I believe that exercising our faith at this time can also bring about miracles. We believe
0:51.4	in a God who hears and answers prayers. In the 2019 General Conference, President Nelson said
1:00.0	the year 2020 will be designated as a bicentennial year. General Conference next April will be
1:07.0	different from any previous conference. In the next six months, I hope that every member and every
1:13.2	family will prepare for a unique conference that will commemorate the very foundations of the
1:19.5	restored gospel. He went on to say, immerse yourself in the glorious light of the restoration.
1:26.4	As you do, General Conference next April will be not only memorable, it will be unforgettable.
1:33.5	Knowing what we know now, we know it will absolutely be different than any previous conference,
1:39.7	but will it be because you're watching the Prophet speak from a different room on Temple Square,
1:45.5	or because you have prepared like never before? We wanted to offer our listeners a special
1:51.2	opportunity to hear from someone who has truly immersed himself in the restoration of the gospel.
1:57.5	In fact, that is Spencer McBride's full-time job. Spencer W. McBride earned a PhD in history
2:05.6	at Louisiana State University. He is a historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith
2:12.3	Papers and the host of the first vision podcast. He is also the author of Pulpit and Nation,
2:19.4	clergyman and the politics of revolutionary America, a specialist in the history of the American
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