I have listened to every single episode of this show that has been uploaded to date. I am so grateful for the insights and context each of the scholars and guests bring to the passages of scripture. It feels like I am sitting in a religion class all over again, and FEASTING on the word of God! Thank you for sharing your thoughts, your insights, and your laughs with so many! What a joy to listen to each week. My testimony in my Savior has deepened and my joy in the gospel has strengthened.

Just wanted to know what happened to Sharon Eubank’s time with you. I so wanted to listen to it again. I’ve never seen one disappear before.

Sometimes I don’t have time to sit down and learn the gospel on my own before we have scripture study at night. Listening to Hank and Smith allows me to prepare to teach my family the week we delve into the Scriptures. It has made me better understand the context of what we are learning. I love how they have a variety of guests. Each of the guests are top notch. This is one of the greatest study tools for the gospel. I have come across in my 50 years. Also, thank you for combining each weeks episode into a single part, it works much better.

I had been looking for a podcast about the scriptures that wasn’t just going over the same thing that we always discuss in church and that made me think deeper, and this is it!

Such a great gathering of testimony. Love the insights and humor and humility. Thank you both!

This podcast has elevated my personal and family study! Thank you, John & Hank!!

As much as I love and appreciate the knowledge I learn from guest scriptorians and professors on the show, the 2 episodes with Stephen Sharp Nelson are miracles. I've seen those two episodes save and lTRANSFORM many lives. Including mine. His courage, honesty and unapologetic vulnerability, allows the Spirit to reveal truths that truly SAVES LIVES!! Please have more guests with his kind of witness, and bravery. We need it!

Dear Hank and John, Thank-you for the time you spend making such interesting, informative, and spiritual podcasts. My Mother passed away at age 100 this summer and she loved your show. In fact, she would call me, my two sisters, and brother several times a week to make sure we had watched the show and what did we learn. Then she would tell us all about what we should have learned. My siblings and I are well over seventy, with one over eighty, and Mom was still interested in our welfare, sometimes a little too much! Now I find I kind of miss her call, checking on my spiritual growth for the week. She would have so loved the last episodes with music from Psalms, hopefully she is watching from Heaven.

If you’re looking for high quality conversations about Jesus, conversion, and the scriptures, then “this is the place.” And as good as their conversations are, they always encourage their listeners to read the scriptures themselves.

A wonderful insightful Christ centered podcast. Wonderful guests as well as humorous and thoughtful Hosts. I never miss the show . Even when I don’t always get the point I leave with new directions to add to my studying.

I love Follow Him! I have been listening since the beginning and never miss an episode. It has enriched my scripture study and truly blessed my life. It helps me to stay Christ centered as I learn from the thoughts, insights, wisdom, experiences and testimonies of each of the guests. My testimony and faith in God and His plan has been strengthened as I have tried to put in practice what I’ve learned. This week’s episode with Steven Sharp Nelson was life changing. I don’t think my prayers and perspective will ever be the same again. Thank you Brother Nelson and thank you Follow Him!

I have a young adult child who is struggling and I will share particularly good episodes of the Follow Him podcast with him. When he listens we are able to have meaningful conversations that I know are having an impact in his life. Thank you Hank and John for your dedication. It IS making a difference in my son’s life.

I have been abundantly blessed by listening to and re-listening to this podcast over the last 4 years. Follow Him has brought the spirit into my home and given me the motivation to study and learn more. Thank you for making it engaging and allowing us to partake of the spirit and come unto Christ. ❤️ 😊I am waiting for The Thoughts to Keep in Mind for Psalms with Ross Baron. I was looking forward to it!

I have been learning so much about the gospel every week with their stories and explanations that really help me to understand what the gospel is really about.

I’ve been listening for years and have learned so much. I’m grateful for Hank and John providing entertainment amid the education. Listening has strengthened my testimony and improved my understanding of the scriptures. I was particularly moved by the recent episode with Heather Farrell. I loved connecting to the women of the Old Testament and being reminded of my divine role. I especially loved how she said “God comes to women”. I’m thankful for followHim!

This podcast helps me in my own study of the scriptures. I am so thankful for the hosts and their guests for helping me better understand what I am reading.

Good stuff

I love listening to this podcast each week to go along with my Come Follow Me lesson! It gives me great insights and I love the humor as well as all the scholars that explain things to me that make it easier to understand the customs and times of the Old Testament.

“Thoughts to Keep in Mind” is fascinating! However, I wish you would introduce Ross Baron and give us his background with each episode, for those of us who are just discovering it. Inspiring work all around!

Good podcast

Love this podcast! Thank you so much.

I am dishearted when I am not able to follow the text as with this session. Several weeks ago there was a way to see the speech text as spoken. I need to pause for various reasons and that process is enhanced when the voice and place in text is preserved connected. Any effort in that end goal is appreciated. Second thought it doesn’t make sense to have the short intro after listening to both hour sessions.

This podcast fires up my scripture study! There is so much to discover in the scriptures. I’ve learned so much listening to this podcast. It inspires me each week to search for the Lord myself in scripture study. His responses, His love, His promises, warnings, and His tailored message to me to help me become a little better each day.

I listen to this faithfully. Even sometimes twice. I get sad when there isn’t a new show for me to listen to because I have listened to them all. This show has changed my life. Made studying the scriptures so much more understandable with all of the experts. John and Hank are of course wonderful cohosts too they have made it more fun to study the scriptures! I am so grateful for all of you who make this happen. You do an excellent job! Thank you!!!!!!!

We all love the boy David who killed Goliath. We admire the young adult David who refused to kill Saul. Yet the man David who abducted Bathsheba and then plotted the murder of her husband is harder to love. This is especially true for women who have been mistreated by men in positions of authority. The Lord said “I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive but of you it is required to forgive all men. So we choose to show compassion for David’s weaknesses, remind ourselves of good he has done in the past, etc. Yet, in our desire to show mercy to David we must take care not to condone or soften the sin in our mind. Neither can we afford to forget Bathsheba. We usually focus so much on David that she becomes an afterthought. Often she is barely mentioned at all unless we speak of her as the temptation face by David. That seems unfair. She was not a temptation. She was a person. Why do we forget to give her the mercy we are careful to show to David? Can we not take a moment to discuss her plight? Perhaps we avoid her story because it is so painful to consider her trauma and abuse. Yet we dishonor her by refusing to acknowledge what she has lost. She lost everything! First she lost the privacy that every human deserves. She should be allowed private moments that are not a show for someone’s else’s lust. Second, she lost the right to remain at home when her husband was not home to protect her. She lost the right to her own reputation. When she became pregnant with David’s child her life was in danger . David could hide from his act if adultry but she carried a child which everyone knew was not her husband’s. She had no hiding place. A woman who commuted adultery would be put away at the least (divorced) but it was perfectly legal and common for her to be stoned to death. The next loss was that of her husband. First he was sent home but he refused to come to her. How she must have wanted and needed him! She needed to know he did not blame her. She would have wanted him to make her feel safe and loved after her trauma. Yet, he did not come to her. Even though his reasons were honorable she experienced another deep loss. Yet, that was nothing compared to what followed. David had her husband murdered. Now he could never come to her. David finally came to his senses after the prophet Daniel revealed David’s sin. After the mourning period Bathsheba became David’s wife. Why do we never talk about that trauma. I would not want to marry the man who took me from my husband and then took my husband from me. Yet, Bathsheba had little choice. She needed protection (aka a husband.). With her baggage who would dare take her. David had an obligation to protect and provide for her after his treatment of her. After she became queen in David’s house she lost her child. She was still Queen but it was not like she was “The queen.” She was wife number 8 and there were concubines. In Uriah’s house she was a beloved original. Now she was part of a household of wives (queens) who must have been struggling with how to include her. These women must have felt betrayed that they were not enough to please David. He resorted to taking another man’s wife and then having him murdered. Did the other wives empathize with Bathsheba or were they so hurt and betrayed by David that they had little room left for sympathy? In their love for David did they rationalize that it could not have really been his fault? Did they assume he must have been seduced. Did they Blame Bathsheba? Did she blame herself? Then what of the mess left in David’s house? When David’s own daughter was raped by a half brother. This daughter pleaded to David in vain for redress. For two years David refuses to punish his son because he loves him. Where is his love for the daughter? If David had truly repented wouldn’t he have done something to redeem his daughter? 1 We are commanded to forgive everyone. So we forgive David. Yet do we not focus so much on showing mercy to him that we completely overlook Bathsheba and the other women? We learn in Doctrine and Covenants that David fell from his exaltation. We mourn for him and some express hope that this is not a permanent condition. Yet, is such thinking justified. Should we really question God’s perfect mercy and judgement? Isn’t God better qualified than we are to do what is best for David and Bathsheba (and the other wives and women?) Should a man who can not treat the woman in his life correctly during his life really be allowed to have those same woman for all eternity? Would that be just or merciful to the women? Isn’t God merciful to women as well as men? Can’t we see mercy as well as justice in God’s decision to deny David the highest degree of glory.

Let me come on sometime 🙏🙏🙏 This podcast is so wonderful and I love it. It motivates and inspires me to read more scriptures and follow come follow me. Thank you But seriously let me come on sometime

To Hank, John, David, Kyle, Lisa, Will, Krystal, Ariel, Amelia, Heather, and Sydney, thank you so much for the wonderful work you put into Follow Him. There is so much love that is both put into and received from this show. You guys are just my favorite.

I love you guys!! You have helped grow my testimony of the gospel and my Savior so much!! Thank you for the positivity and light of the Savior you and all of your hosts bring into my life!! I’ve especially loved Rebekah call’s and episode and Bonnie h cordon’s episode!! ❤️❤️❤️

I may not personally connect with each and every guest speaker. But every single guest has unique insights and I learn every week. Remember, these are not professional podcasters lol… they’re actually so much more than that with amazing credentials and spiritual gifts to teach all of us. This is a great show! I just love this podcast!

This podcast is saving testimonies & families and the adversary knows it.

I am a long time listener, so obviously I enjoy the podcast. But from the very start there is one thing that rubs me the wrong way. This is the first time I have actually expressed it. I know it is intended to be a cute introduction, but every week the thought goes through my mind “who are we worshipping here, Jesus or John Bytheway. I don’t need to describe more. If you listen to the podcast you know what I am talking about.

Listened for half an hour and learned nothing about the scriptures themselves, just Rebekah Calls personal opinions, how many languages she speaks, and her view that Lehi was a terrible parent. I’d love to hear from guests who are serious of faith and the scriptures, rather than repetitive and cliche off the cuff opinions.

I really enjoy the cheerfulness this podcast uses to inform Me about stuff I never knew from the scriptures. I just saw a reel on Facebook, by a guy named Caden. Caden said someone called him a “diet Hank Smith”!😂😂 Hank, how does it feel to be the yardstick by which other’s performance is measured?!

I have been listening to some past episodes to prepare for a talk in church and have listened to several episodes now. I am loving it! I feel I am learning so much. I love the deeper dive into the scriptures. The guests I have heard have been fantastic too. I do want to add a couple comments about the episode from June 19, 2024 about Alma 13-16. First off, the guest for this episode was amazing! She had so many great things to say about women in the Book of Mormon and women’s experiences worldwide. Such an important perspective to share and not shy away from. Second, Alma 10:11 says that Alma blessed Amulek’s house “my women, and my children”. It undoubtedly means that Amulek’s own wife and children were included in the horrors of Alma 14:8-13. I don’t hear anyone make this connection and it makes Amulek’s response so much more poignant, Alma’s ministering to him so much more necessary, and Amulek’s subsequent teaching and apparent forgiveness of Zeezrom that much more powerful. Amulek went through something so awful. When we see him again in Alma 34, his message is about salvation available through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the need to cry unto the Lord always, and an exhortation to with patience bear all manner of afflictions with a firm hope. This is a man that lost everything and has been healed through Christ. We diminish that when we don’t recognize what happened.

My wife introduced me to this podcast and I can’t thank her enough. Now I hope others will be thanking me for telling all I know about this amazing podcast. Y’all shed on every angle of the topic at hand and its incredible…the snippets you pull out of for example of the book of Mormon or the docterine and covenants and even now with the Old Testament which I never never even have had a desire to read. My eyes have been open to a whole new understanding of the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Hank and John and all your inspired guests You are the best!!

This podcast has helped deepen my understanding of the scriptures tenfold. Especially when scholars share the Hebrew translations of the bible. It changed everything for me. Thank you thank you!

I really do love the show but I find it very hard to listen to these visitors that feel compelled to give words that end in G two syllables. Maybe this is a UT thing but it sounds so yocal and detracts because it is a distraction??? Help???

The guests on this show bring expertise on ancient languages and cultures or modern insights that open your eyes to the beauty and power of the scriptures. I love this so much!

This is my favorite podcast. It inspires me and helps me feel closer to God. I am so thankful for this wonderful podcast.

This podcast is amazing and has helped me understand the scriptures more!

What an amazing podcast! Great guests and I love the way they help point me and everyone to Christ!

I love this podcast and how relatable it makes the Come, Follow Me program and curriculum - especially the Old and New Testaments. Thanks for this and all you do!

Every episode is so inspiring and informative, I feel like I’m sitting in a religious class that I somehow snuck into. My understanding of the scriptures is forever changed. It’s my weekly go-to and has brought me closer to Christ than ever before. Thank you!

For years I struggled with this song because I didn’t have kind parents. Then one Primary Sacrament meeting the kids were singing I Am a Child of God. I would typically let my mind wander or read my scriptures or something to distract myself. So I was not paying attention and the kids sang that dreaded phrase. But this time I heard perfectly clear “with parents kind of weird “. That got my attention and I started laughing because God just told me that I got the weird parents. I got the ones who struggled with mental health and abuse, themselves. And they didn’t know how to be kind and dear. I love God’s tender mercy because now I always hear, parents kind of weird. Thank you for the work you do. Sister Rose Haynes

Thanks a ton. I love the podcast and only started listening today after listening to your talk on Exodus at the Salem Utah stake. It was awesome Hank. Thanks lots! Glad to be living near you!

This was my all time favorite episode. Mike brought the scriptures to life in a way that I hadn’t seen before.

This podcast was recommended to me by my Sunday School Teacher and it has become my absolute favorite. It has expanded my spiritual knowledge and taught me how to use the digital scriptures new features (Image symbol to the right margin) which absolutely enhances my understanding of the message.

I have absolutely loved listening to this podcast! It has helped me grow spiritually in knowledge and faith. I have been struggling with my testimony after some very difficult interactions with church leaders. I had to really look at why I am a part of this church. It came down to my belief in the gospel of Jesus Jesus Christ. There have been many questions and heartaches that have been soothed listening to this podcast. I have felt peace and the anger and sadness fall away as I come to understand the teachings in the script and how others have gone through similar difficulties. I have seen many parallels and messages of hope. I feel like this podcast helped bridge the gap between my knowledge of the gospel and understanding it more fully. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this.

Loved her comments, I actually listened to the content twice. But I don’t think we should be referring to our apostles as; “Holland” or “Uchtdorf“. Thanks for all you do.

This is the best content to listen to on my drive to and from work. Connecting with Christ gets we ready for the workplace and the home and these guys do a great job helping me get there.