Advent 2025 Week 1 with Annie F. Downs

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Who better to help us kick off Advent 2025 than Annie F. Downs? In this episode, Raechel, Amanda, and Annie take time to talk about the impact of seasons, the rhythms that strengthen us, and the comfort and joy of waiting during Advent. Listen in as we begin reading the story from where it all began—all the way back in Genesis!

Open your Bibles with us this week! This episode corresponds to Week 1 of She Reads Truth’s Advent 2025 reading plan. You can read with the She Reads Truth community on our site, in our app, or with our Advent 2025: Tidings of Comfort and Joy printed or digital Daily Reading Guide.

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0:00.0	Happy Advent 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.
0:13.3	Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week.
0:17.8	I'm your host, Rachel Myers. And I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams
0:21.2	and friends, we have the best person to help us kick off this year's Advent series, the one and only
0:30.4	Annie F. Downs, Ms. Advent herself, is here with us. If you don't know Annie, you need to. She is a New York Times bestselling
0:40.2	author and a speaker and a podcast host. And if you haven't listened to her podcast yet,
0:45.1	that sounds fun podcast is just such, such fun. It's fun, guys. It's fun. But she's just the
0:52.2	perfect person to kick off Advent with. And so we're not going to waste any time. Let's get right to it.
0:59.0	Annie F. Downs, welcome to the She Rees Truth podcast. Happy Advent. Happy Advent. I'm thrilled. Y'all know how I feel about the Christian calendar. So the idea that we are back, we are out of ordinary time. Bless God. Here we are. I'm high-five-new cross-table. I'm so thrilled to be out of ordinary time and back into a proper season. Right where we belong. A proper season. Between now and May, I'm going to be thrilled. Yeah, you are. I'm just so happy. We just go through a whole collection of beautiful seasons on the Christian calendar starting with Advent. I'm so happy. Did I not know or did it just not sink in that Advent is the start of the Christian calendar? I didn't know until I read that in here. I didn't either. And I don't know if it's just not been in this, been the intros before. But that means it's a happy church calendar New Year.
1:45.0	Happy New Year. Oh, my goodness. It feels that way in my spirit. That is how happy.
1:49.2	You all know, that is how happy I feel to get out of ordinary time. Yes.
1:53.4	Yeah. Well, as soon as I read that. All ahead with no mistakes in it. Yes.
1:57.0	A little L.A. Montgomery. Okay, I have a question. You have been spending a lot of time for the past year. Yes. That's right. Ellen Montgomery. Okay, I have a question. You have been spending a lot of time for the past year talking about seasons.
2:06.1	That's right.
2:06.4	Yes.
2:07.1	If I asked you, Annie, top couple things that you have learned just for yourself, for your own heart, about seasons and the way they change.
2:18.1	Yep.
2:18.7	What would you say?
2:19.5	So, yeah, and that sounds fun for the whole year of 2025.
2:23.2	We did winter, spring, summer, fall.
2:24.7	So every podcast episode was themed.
2:27.5	Yes.
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