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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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Join us for Week 3 of our Advent 2025 series as Raechel and Amanda are joined by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Together they reflect on the anticipation of the Advent season, the beauty of the Advent story, and how we wait in the hope and comfort of Jesus.
Open your Bibles with us this week! This episode corresponds to Week 3 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. |
| 0:17.0 | She reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help |
| 0:21.9 | you get into God's Word every day. Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going |
| 0:27.0 | to read together as a community this week. I'm your host, Rachel Myers. And I'm your other |
| 0:31.1 | host, Amanda Bible Williams. And it is week three of Advent. And we are joined by our dear friend, Sally Lloyd Jones. |
| 0:38.8 | Everyone just exhale. |
| 0:40.3 | Friends, if you have ever encountered the Jesus' storybook Bible, then you have encountered |
| 0:45.8 | Sally. |
| 0:46.8 | That is part of her work, but she has written over 40 books for children. |
| 0:52.7 | She is, of course, a New York Times best-selling writer, critically |
| 0:56.4 | acclaimed in all the places. But let me tell you that that's not the headline of Sally. |
| 1:02.1 | The headline of Sally is that she is a child of God, and she has a way of storytelling and |
| 1:09.5 | speaking that reminds us that we are children of God. |
| 1:13.5 | And this hour ministered to us both so deeply, and I don't even want to talk about it anymore |
| 1:20.9 | because I want you to just experience it. |
| 1:22.8 | But before we do, you're going to hear us talk about one of Sally's latest books that just released a couple |
| 1:28.3 | months ago. It's called Jesus, Our True Friend, Stories to Fill Your Heart with Joy. So you're |
| 1:33.9 | going to want to check that out. The link will be in the show notes. But for now, let's get right |
| 1:38.7 | to this episode with Sally. Sally Lloyd-Jones, welcome back after five years to the She reads Truth podcast. |
| 1:48.3 | I can't believe it's been that long. |
| 1:49.7 | No, I can't either. |
| 1:50.7 | But it's wonderful to be back and it seems like only yesterday, doesn't it? |
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