How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

A woman's role in the church, well it's a controversial discussion that never seems to go out of style. In our study on

through the Bible our teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee gets right to the heart of the

matter and we're going to begin at 1st Timothy 2 at verse 5. I'm Steve

Schwets your host and I'm so glad that you're here as the Bible bus

continues its never-ending five-year study through the entire word of God. Now earlier

in the week I promised you a visit from Through the Bibles President Greg Harris and today

I'm happy to welcome him to the studio so that we together can talk a little bit about the

ministry of Through the Bible in Southern Europe.

That's right Stephen, thanks for having me. Hello everybody good to see you at least virtually I know you're out there listening and we love hearing back from you. It encourages us so much but this week of course our world prayer team is on the move

going through southern Europe and today we're in Portugal a ministry that began in the year

2001 so we've been over 20 years in a pretty tough spot.

Yeah. And we want to talk about ways we can pray but guess what? Our very own Steve Schwartz was in

Portugal not long ago.

I think it was about six months ago actually.

And I had an opportunity to share with the team

and learn a little bit about the challenges that they face

in that country.

And there are numerous challenges. I mean you've got an aging population

that is the oldest in Europe and when we know across Europe that it's getting

older and older only by immigration and that has its own challenges

because those that are

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