

The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
The Scriptures Are Real (TSAR) with Kerry Muhlestein is a podcast where we look at elements of the scriptures that have become real to us. We interview both experts (people with language, archaeological, historical backgrounds, etc.), and lay folks, and explore times when the scriptures became real to them. This is done from the viewpoint of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We believe that there is real power in the scriptures and that as they become more real we can better apply them to our lives and draw more power from them.
If you listen to this podcast you will learn all kinds of interesting background information that will help you understand and learn more from the scriptures. We believe it will allow you to add real power to your life.
My gratitude to my co-host Lamar Newmeyer. Also to my friend Rich Nicholls, who composed the introductory music.
If you listen to this podcast you will learn all kinds of interesting background information that will help you understand and learn more from the scriptures. We believe it will allow you to add real power to your life.
My gratitude to my co-host Lamar Newmeyer. Also to my friend Rich Nicholls, who composed the introductory music.
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Dec 28, 2025 • 49min
S5 E2 The Old Testament and Relationships with God and Family (week 1, episode 2)
To learn more about the covenant, consider joining us on a cruise where Steven Harper and Kerry Muhlestein will lecture and have discussions about the Abrahamic, or New and Everlasting Covenant. Also see fantastic Mayan ruins and other amazing things at beautiful ports. Go to https://restorationtravels.com/nec-cruise/ to join us.In this joint broadcast Kerry lectures for the a podcast that focuses on relationships (Thriving LDS Singles). He and his hosts, Dr. Kim Cobler and Kay Bayley teach us about how the Old Testament focuses on relationships. They discuss what it can teach us about our relationships with God and how that shapes our lives and brings joy. They also discuss the strong Old Testament focus on family relationships and how they can be messy and that mess can be edifying. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, B. Van Blerkom, the Dawsons, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 1h 4min
S5 E1 How to Study the Old Testament with Kerry Muhlestein
Discover how to enhance your Old Testament study with valuable insights on storytelling and symbolism. Learn about the obstacles of context and culture that can cloud understanding. Kerry emphasizes viewing scripture through a covenantal lens, treating the Old Testament as your family history. Uncover divine themes like God's anger paired with compassion and the necessity of recognizing His role in the narratives. Dive deep into covenant cycles and the powerful messages of redemption and return that resonate throughout the text.

Dec 21, 2025 • 1h 17min
S4 E62 Knowing Christ When He Comes (Christmas Episode)
For Christmas, let us help you give! Give a subscription to the content on our Patreon Channel (TSAR.website). Or give my book, Inspirations and Insights from the Old Testament, to help with weekly Come Follow Me Reading. Or give a cruise with me and Steve Harper talking about the New and Everlasting Covenant. Or give all three! Please help us! For Giving Tuesday and the giving season, please consider helping us keep the podcast going. Any amount helps! Give just a little to keep us going. We make no money from this, we just do this for you as we do it with you! Thank you so much. How to pay: Venmo @julianne-muhlestein Zelle using the email TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com Checks can be made personally, or through a DAF to Enlighten Educational Experience or to Edifying Educational Experience 1935 N. 600 E Orem, UT 84097 The EIN is 99-3778038 If another method would work better for you, please email us at TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com Your donation is tax deductible and will make a huge difference in allowing us to continue and spread our work. Thank you! In this episode Kerry discusses what it means to find Christ in the Old Testament, and how our unique knowledge of Christ as Jehovah allows us to learn more. Then he and Andrew Skinner and Joshua Matson engage in a roundtable talking about how they learn more about Christ in the Old Testament. Finally Kerry talks about prophecies of Christ that were fulfilled in His birth and ministry, and especially how understanding about the term Messiah, or anointed one, help us understand who Christ is and what He did and will do for us. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, B. Van Blerkom, the Dawsons, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Dec 14, 2025 • 48min
s4 E61 Family is Forever: the divine power behind the doctrine of the family with Jenet Erickson (Family Proclamation)
Please help us! For Giving Tuesday and the giving season, please consider helping us keep the podcast going. Any amount helps! Give just a little to keep us going. We make no money from this, we just do this for you as we do it with you! Thank you so much. How to pay: Venmo @julianne-muhlestein Zelle using the email TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com Checks can be made personally, or through a DAF to Enlighten Educational Experience or to Edifying Educational Experience 1935 N. 600 E Orem, UT 84097 The EIN is 99-3778038 If another method would work better for you, please email us at TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.com Your donation is tax deductible and will make a huge difference in allowing us to continue and spread our work. Thank you! In this episode Kerry and Jenet Erickson discuss the powerful doctrine of the family and look at how scholarship both backs up that doctrine and how it can help us figure out how to apply it in our lives. Jenet helps us see the power of parental, marital, and sibling relationships. Together they help us see the hope for strong families and for how Christ makes up the difference in struggling families. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, the Dawsons, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Dec 7, 2025 • 1h 5min
S4 E60 Blacks and the Priesthood: an interview with the first missionary of African descent
Please help us! For Giving Tuesday and the giving season, please consider helping us keep the podcast going. Any amount helps! Give just a little to keep us going. We make no money from this, we just do this for you as we do it with you! Thank you so much. How to pay: Venmo @julianne-muhlesteinZelle using the email TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.comChecks can be made personally, or through a DAF toEnlighten Educational Experience or to Edifying Educational Experience 1935 N. 600 E Orem, UT 84097The EIN is 99-3778038 If another method would work better for you, please email us at TheScripturesAreReal@gmail.comYour donation is tax deductible and will make a huge difference in allowing us to continue and spread our work. Thank you!In this episode Kerry interviews Marcus Martins, who was the first missionary for the Church of African descent and whose father was the first General Authority of African descent. Marcus outlines how they came into the gospel and why they stayed when they could not participate in all ordinances and when people said hurtful things. His testimony and explanation are real, and are powerful Don't miss this!We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, the Dawsons, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Nov 30, 2025 • 1h
S4 E59 Saving Lives in this World and the Next: new ways to help the other side of the veil (D&C 137-138)
Please help us! For Giving Tuesday and the giving season, please consider helping us keep the podcast going. Any amount helps! Give just a little to keep us going. Go to OutoftheDust.org to see how to donate. We do this for you as we do it with you! Thank you so much!In this episode Kerry and Dr. Joseph Price discuss the background of Sections 137 and 138. They talk about the amazing power of God's supernal plan for saving all His children. The unique love of God that is recognizable only in LDS thought is put on full display. Dr. Joseph Price shares his incredible efforts to help as many people as possible do as much as is possible for those on the other side. He reveals his absolutely mind boggling goal for how many people he wants to help on the other side. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Nov 23, 2025 • 1h 8min
S4 E58 Martyrdom and Mantle (D&C 135-136)
Join Steve Harper and Kerry for the cruise of a lifetime! They will lecture on the covenant in all dispensations and what it has to do with you. Together we will go to Mayan ruins and fantastic snorkeling and beaches, sailing out of Miami. Go to RestorationTravels.com and look for the cruise on the covenant.In this episode Kerry and Brett Dowdle talk about the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith and the beautiful section that describes his miraculous ministry. They then talk about the succession to Brigham Young. They discuss Brigham Young and his preparation and the keys and the Quorum of the Twelve. They discuss what Arthur Haycock, Brett's grandfather, can tell us about succession from his journals. This carries over into understanding the succession we have just witnessed and the blessings that we have in a modern prophet. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Nov 16, 2025 • 1h 13min
S4 E57 Judgement at the End of Times with Dr. Andrew Skinner (D&C 133-134)
Join Steve Harper and Kerry for the cruise of a lifetime! They will lecture on the covenant in all dispensations and what it has to do with you. Together we will go to Mayan ruins and fantastic snorkeling and beaches, sailing out of Miami. Go to RestorationTravels.com and look for the cruise on the covenant. In this episode Andrew Skinner and Kerry analyze what we know and what we don't know about the Last Days. They look into prophetic teachings and the revelation from Joseph Smith. They help us realize how we need to prepare. They also talk about sanctification and justification. They explore how all of this ties into being able to come into the presence of God. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Nov 9, 2025 • 53min
S4 E56 The Power that Seals: Husband and Wife in the Order of the Priesthood (D&C 131)
Don't miss your most helpful resource for the Old Testament year! Buy Kerry's new book designed to help you with your Come Follow Me Old Testament study. You can get it at https://www.deseretbook.com/product/P6086915.html orhttps://www.amazon.com/Inspirations-Insights-Testament-Kerry-Muhlestein/dp/1524428604/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P9AYRN34ERDT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6q_kfS1s54oNl4Z4W-DFCDibTEcFK9CXDo8hYXe1iO4DAA7m7jYvtE4gSzjSghvuBlQV903fbaQrS9qj3ZUHRCgCp0EzpRiufwS_JBdm7yDb2H3cso3K7rfPcOeKm5VCvTCuIDWkUpE-9Xx72eWHdsQdewaEV35Q8ell1afD6vG-gzi36ZbF0fDLgEnz5kotb1hUNSlU4VNUk1nA7FA-oYtr7G57Jz7QZeYVRS-dffU.1f5U8x5h4zsVNlP9bLOIQEEhT9Vo-ga-mdEIw0F4doA&dib_tag=se&keywords=kerry+muhlestein&qid=1762621758&sprefix=kerry+muhlestein%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-1In this episode Kerry and Phil Allred talk about the order of marriage that all must enter into to receive full exaltation. They talk about how both men and women enter into what is called an order of the priesthood. They talk about what this means in the lives of families and marriages everywhere.We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Nov 2, 2025 • 1h 15min
S4 E55 Saving Humankind: Steven Harper and God's Surprising Plan (D&C 125-128)
Join Steve Harper and Kerry for the cruise of a lifetime! They will lecture on the covenant in all dispensations and what it has to do with you. Together we will go to Mayan ruins and fantastic snorkeling and beaches, sailing out of Miami. Go to RestorationTravels.com and look for the cruise on the covenant. In this episode Steve Harper and Kerry discuss how God kept revealing to Joseph Smith and the Saints more and more about doing work for the dead. They trace that development and what it meant for people personally at the time, and for us today. They delve into the problem most religions have about God's seeming inability to save everyone, and how the revelations of the Restoration solve that problem and present us with a just and all loving God. We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.


