Come, Follow Me with FAIR – Introduction to the Old Testament – Jennifer Roach Lees
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Why does the Old Testament still matter? What translations are good? Should I get a study Bible? These questions and more are discussed in this week’s episode.
Jennifer Roach Lees holds a Master in Divinity as well as a Masters in Counseling Psychology. She is a licensed mental health therapist and lives in Utah.
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| 0:00.0 | Generally, when people are resistant to the Old Testament, their hangups fall in one of two categories. |
| 0:07.2 | One, they don't recognize the God of the Old Testament. |
| 0:11.7 | They say he doesn't look or act like the God we see in the New Testament or the Book of Mormon. |
| 0:18.0 | I don't know what to do with that. |
| 0:20.0 | Like it seems like an entirely different heavenly father to them. And't know what to do with that. It seems like an entirely different |
| 0:21.8 | heavenly father to them. And we are going to walk through that issue in a lot of different ways |
| 0:27.1 | during this year. It comes up kind of over and over. The second bucket of reasons why people find |
| 0:33.0 | the Old Testament to be difficult is that outside of a handful of stories that maybe we teach to children or maybe |
| 0:40.3 | movies have been made about them, they're very well known. Outside of those, many people just don't |
| 0:46.1 | find the Old Testament very inspiring. It's different than when we read the Book of Mormon or when we |
| 0:51.8 | read the New Testament, both of which we can find Jesus on |
| 0:54.5 | practically every page. You don't have to wait very long to get to something good. And the Old |
| 0:59.1 | Testament doesn't really function in that same way. |
| 1:16.5 | Hello and welcome to Fairs's Come Follow Me podcast for Old Testament Year. My name is Jennifer Roach-Lee's, and I am so excited to introduce this series to you. This year will be producing a new |
| 1:22.1 | episode each week to help you study the Old Testament right along with your Come Follow Me readings. |
| 1:27.3 | If you've watched content from Fair in the past, you might have seen my New Testament series |
| 1:33.3 | the last time we were that part in the cycle, but I'm really excited to get to spend this year with you in the Old Testament. |
| 1:39.3 | I love the Old Testament, and my goal is that by the end of this, that you love it too. |
| 1:43.3 | The Old Testament is deep and |
| 1:45.3 | wonderful and beautiful and it absolutely still matters today. Today, we're going to do an |
| 1:50.6 | introduction to kind of both this series and the Old Testament. Like, what is this thing that we call |
| 1:56.7 | the Old Testament? I want to try and make a case right off the bat for why you should believe |
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