Welcome to Verity Podcast. I'm your host, Felicia Mason-Himer, and I am here to

teach you how to know what you believe, to live it boldly, and to communicate it

graciously to the world around you. I believe that women are ready to go deeper in

their faith than ever before, and they don't have to go to seminary to do it. I am

so glad you're here, and I hope you'll join me on this journey because every

one of them is a theologian. Hello friends. Would it surprise you to know that it

took me four years to remember Josh's birthday? It's very embarrassing, but it's true

for four years of our dating and early marriage relationship. I could not remember

Josh's birthday. I always got the days mixed up. Now this is a pattern for me. I do have a hard

time with dates and remembering dates. I literally have no less than four calendars. I have a

planner, a Google calendar, a whiteboard calendar on my fridge, and a chalkboard calendar

over by my entryway. So yes, remembering details is hard for me, but

when you're married to someone, you should remember their birthday. And so here I am, you know,

years and years married to Josh and still unable to remember his birthday. And at one point,

he was like, look, I'm going to make the passcode to your phone my birthday so that you have to

remember what day it is. And that actually helped, but I don't recommend it. It's not secure,

and we no longer do that. But it did help me for a period of time. All of this to say,

it's possible to know someone and not really know them, right? You could know someone's birthday,

but not know them intimately, you know, as a friend, or you could know someone like be married

to them like me and not know their birthday. And so many of us treat Jesus in this way. We know

him. We know facts about him. We memorize verses about him and his actions, but we don't really

know him. So if we were asked, who is Jesus? What did he do? Why do you follow him? A lot of us

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