Book of Mormon Study Guide, Pt. 2: The Book of Alma

by Randal S. Chase, Michael D. Chase (Editor)

Overview

This volume is the second of three on the Book of Mormon. It covers the last chapters of Mosiah and all of the book of Alma. It begins with the story of the conversion of Alma the Younger. We learn of the beginning of the reign of the judges. Then we follow the missionary efforts of Alma and Amulek in the land of Zarahemla, followed by the missions of the sons of Mosiah to the Lamanites in the Land of Nephi. We follow the fate of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies. We read Alma's letters to his sons, including an in-depth discussion of the Great Plan of Happiness. Then we finish with the stories of Captain Moroni and Helaman's stripling warriors. In all, it covers 67 years of Nephite history from 130 to 63 BC when the book of Helaman began. The cover features a beautiful painting of "The Title of Liberty," by Joseph Brickey.

Table of Contents

Ch. Title Scripture Refs

20. Alma's Conversion (Mosiah25-28,Alma36)
21. Reign of Judges Begins (Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4)
22. Alma's Spiritual Checklist (Alma 5-7)
23. Alma & Amulek in Ammonihah (Alma 8-12)
24. Priesthood, Persecution, Prophecy (Alma 13-16)
25. The Missions of the Sons of Mosiah (Alma 17–22)
26. Book of Mormon Geography/Anti-Nephi-Lehies (Alma 22–29)
27. Korihor and the Zoramites (Alma 30–31)
28. Nourishing the Word with Faith (Alma 32–35)
29. Alma's Letters to His Sons (Alma 36–39)
30. The Great Plan of Happiness (Alma 40–42)
31. Captain Moroni and the Causes of War (Alma 43–52)
32. Stripling Warriors/Moroni-Pahoran Letters (Alma 53-63)

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940013218703
Publisher:	Plain and Precious Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Series:	Making Precious Things Plain , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	290
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About the Author

Randal S. Chase spent his childhood years in Nephi, Utah, where his father was a dry land wheat farmer and a businessman. In 1959 their family moved to Salt Lake City and settled in the Holladay area. He served a full-time mission in the Central British (England Central) Mission from 1968 to 1970. He returned home and married Deborah Johnsen in 1971. They are the parents of six children—two daughters and four sons—and an ever-expanding number of grandchildren.

He was called to serve as a bishop at the age of twenty-seven in the Sandy Crescent South Stake area of the Salt Lake Valley. He served six years in that capacity and has since served as a high councilor, a stake executive secretary and clerk, and in many other stake and ward callings. Regardless of whatever other callings he has received over the years, one was nearly constant: he has taught Gospel Doctrine classes in every ward he has ever lived in as an adult—for a total of thirty-five years.

Dr. Chase was a well-known media personality on Salt Lake City radio stations in the 1970s. He left on-air broadcasting in 1978 to develop and market computer-based management, sales, and music programming systems to radio and television stations in the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. After the business was sold in 1984, he supported his family as a media and business consultant in the Salt Lake City area.

Having a great desire to teach young people of college age, he determined in the late 1980s to pursue his doctorate, and he received his PhD in communication from the University of Utah in 1997. He has taught communication courses at that institution as well as at Salt Lake Community College and Dixie State College of Utah for twenty-one years. He is currently a full-time tenured faculty member in the Communication Department at Dixie State College in St. George, Utah.

Concurrently with his academic career, Dr. Chase has served as a volunteer LDS Institute and Adult Education instructor in the CES system since 1994, both in Salt Lake City and St. George, where he currently teaches a weekly Adult Education class for three stakes in the Washington area. He has also conducted multiple Church history tours and seminars. During these years of gospel teaching, he has developed an extensive library of lesson plans and handouts that are the predecessors to these study guides.

Editorial Reviews

They were so informative and enlightening. Words of thank you seem so inadequate. They have helped us have a grater love and understanding of our life here [as missionaries] and give us a nourishment to get out and be bold and just do it, and to really ponder the scriptures and then try to do all we can to live them.

Comments Posted Online - Dean Barker

Making Precious Things Plain . . . is a great series. . . . It contains a wealth of information, many quotes and additional scriptural references. The majority come from past and present prophets, apostles, and general authorities of the Church. Some are humorous and some are purely informative. All of them will help the reader to reach a new level of faith and understanding. . . . Written in a very personal, upbeat manner, it has the feel of attending one of Dr. Chase's LDS Institute classes.

Comments Posted Online - Jaymie Reynolds

I think it is by far the BEST study guide written for those who really want to LEARN the lessons. [Timothy Schulte is a book publisher, though not the publisher of these books.]

Comments Posted Online - Timothy Schulte

I just read your [material] regarding personal revelation. I believe it to be perhaps the most clear discussions on the topic I've ever read. Thank you for your insights and the way you presented them using well-documented references from prophets and general authorities. With your permission, I'd like to use some of your material in a speaking assignment I have this Sunday in the College 2nd Stake.

Comments Posted Online - Dan Matheson

I just read your [material] regarding personal revelation. I believe it to be perhaps the most clear discussions on the topic I’ve ever read. Thank you for your insights and the way you presented them using well-documented references from prophets and general authorities. With your permission, I’d like to use some of your material in a speaking assignment I have this Sunday in the College 2nd Stake.

Dan Matheson