Brad Wilcox on being Born Again (week of Feb. 6, only episode)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Brad and Kerry explore the story of Nicodemus and what it really means to be born again. They help us see how important this doctrine is for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and how it should affect all of us.
We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for our editor, Alexia Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures a real podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have made them real to us or that have become real to us because we believe you can get more power out of the scriptures when they're real to you. |
| 0:20.6 | And we need all the power we can get. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm thrilled to have with me as a guest today, one of my |
| 0:27.1 | good friends and colleagues from work. |
| 0:29.3 | This is Brad Wilcox, who is currently serving as the, I believe, the second counselor |
| 0:35.6 | in the Young Men's Presidency, the general young men's presidency, |
| 0:38.5 | but he's here on my podcast, not in that role, but as a professor of ancient scripture, |
| 0:42.7 | because we teach in the same college. And just a wonderful guy who uplifts me every single time |
| 0:49.5 | I'm around him and who has a way of seeing to the core of important matters and recognizing what's important |
| 0:55.8 | and what we need to focus on and a way of explaining that so well. So I'm thrilled to have you with |
| 1:00.9 | us. Thank you for being with us, Brad. Thanks, Carrie. Anytime I can teach with you, I am happy. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, then we're both happy today. What else should we know about you, Brad? |
| 1:11.5 | Oh, I guess it's good to let you know that I have a wonderful wife and just a wonderful family. |
| 1:19.2 | I've got four great kids and nine grandkids, and some of them are in the other room right now playing hide and seek. |
| 1:25.2 | So if it gets a little noisy on this end of things just |
| 1:28.6 | know that grandpa and grandma babysitting uh well sorry that you're missing that my grandson's actually |
| 1:34.9 | downstairs playing uh hide me right this moment as well so we should have got them because his dad's trying to get him to |
| 1:40.1 | clean up and that became hide and go seek because he was hiding from cleaning. But anyway, that's our case. So, |
| 1:50.2 | anyway, well, it's good to have you with us, Brad. And today we're covering, well, that come |
| 1:56.1 | follow me is covering John chapters two through four. We won't cover all of that. But I asked Brad to come on just because |
| 2:03.8 | there's a topic in there that I think is particularly meaningful to me and very real to me, |
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