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This week, Paul shares a helpful framework to guide your scripture reading and study throughout the year,

keeping your focus on the central theme of the entire redemptive story.

Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Thank you. weeks. Have you ever read anything by Charles Dickens?

He is the legendary author of A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, a tale of two cities,

and many more.

What he is perhaps most renowned for is his creation of some of the

greatest fictional characters in literary history, like Ebenezer Scrooge. In his novels,

Dickens would dedicate a significant amount of ink building out a character in detail. After you're

done reading page after page after page describing the character, you've almost forgotten what

the original plot of the

story was. That's sometimes how reading the Bible can feel. You'll come across a portion of

scripture, maybe a genealogy or law or map or list of numbers, and you'll have forgotten what

you've read previously, because after all, what in the world did all those outdated historical

details have to do with anything

you're facing in life today?

But the Bible is not a historical textbook.

And while it's not a novel either, the Bible does have a plot line.

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