I think it's important to study stories of women because women are God's image bearers.

God and His infinite wisdom chose to create two genders to image him.

And so we need to know about the stories of women because they show us something about what God is like. I think we need to

study stories of women because we don't hear a lot about inspirational narratives in the Bible

about women, but they're not absent. We just don't hear about them.

Colleen Searcy is a Bible teacher, a speaker, and the creator of the Meet Me in the Bible study series.

She currently serves on staff at the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, and leads

Bible workshops for churches around the country.

Colleen, thanks so much for joining me today on the CrossFit podcast.

Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.

Thanks for the invitation.

So today we're going to talk a little bit about the stories of some key women in the Bible.

And as we all know, the Bible has lots of female characters in it.

Some of them very well known, but there are a number that

are less well known, maybe characters that we just haven't spent a ton of time focused on or

paying attention to. And so we're going to dig into a few of those characters that you actually

highlight in a new Bible study that you've written with Crossway. But before we even get to that, I wonder

if you could just, I'm going to ask a kind of obvious question, but I'd just love to hear your

thoughts on this, having done this deep study of some of these women. Why is it worth studying,

specifically the stories of women in the Bible? Yeah. Thank you for that question. I do think

it's an important one. There's several

layers to that answer. I think it's important to study stories of women because women are God's

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