Hello and welcome to the She reads Truth podcast. She reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day. Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week. I'm your host, Rachel Myers. And I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams. And what I need you to know, friends, is that sometimes when Rachel does her introduction, she does kind of a lift off. Oh, yeah. She, like, kind of, like, backs up and then approaches so she gets a nice, like, oh, do you? I start from downtown. I like it. I really make my whole body come toward the mic. Yeah, it's good. It's good.

Maybe one day we'll give you a little BTS video. The more dramatic, the better.

Friends, we are in week two of our act series. Starting the new year with this book of the Bible has already been such a gift to us. and I hope that has been your experience as well.

I know it has been because it's God's Word. And this week, our friend David Platt is with us.

David is a pastor at McLean Bible Church. He's also the founder of Radical, which is an organization

that makes Jesus known among the nations. Amen and amen. We're going to talk a little bit about that

today and what that looked like in the earliest church. David also released a book last year called

How to Read the Bible, a Simple Guide to Deeper Intimacy with God. So clearly someone who loves God's

word and wants to help you read and know it. In this

conversation, it was so helpful for me. I needed this conversation. Me too. Me too. To process

that what we're reading this week. And so I'm excited for you that you get this conversation

as part of your week as well. And I think you'll be excited to do the reading.

I agree. It felt both educational and applicable. There we go. How about that for an ad for what

you're about to hear? So without further ado, let's get right to it. David Platt, welcome

back to the She Reads Truth podcast. So happy to have you for Axe. I'm so happy to be back for any book. What you guys do, just walking through the word, letting the word do the work. So yes, it's good to be back. And all the more so for Axe. Yeah. Oh, man. It's been about a year, I think. We had you for Advent in 2024. So we are also just like it's been too long.

And so this week, y'all listening, we are on, like we said, week two of the Book

of Acts.

I think it's a six-week journey.

Is that right?

It is.

Six weeks.

But we are this week opening chapters five through nine.

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