Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

It's day one, and I'm so excited that you're here with me for this.

Before we begin, I want to make sure we're all on the same page, literally.

There are lots of chronological

plans, and if you're using a different one, we'll probably get off track with each other at some

point, though it could be months from now. So go ahead today and make sure you're either using

the principal plan from our website, thebibyl recap.com forward slash start, or if you're using

the Bible app to stay on track, make sure you're using the plan called

the Bible Recap with Tara Lee Cobble. And it has our logo as the image. Today we read Genesis 1 through 3.

If you haven't read this yet, hit pause on this podcast and go check that out first. I'll still be here

when you finish, ready to recap with you. And just a heads up, today's episode will be a bit longer than usual because we have to

set up a lot of what's happening here. Each day, I'll start out by aiming to give you a high-level

view of where we are in the meta-narrative. If you're not familiar with the word metanarrative,

that just means the overarching storyline. There are lots of stories in these 66 books of the Bible, but they all work together to tell one big story. That's the meta-narrative.

So each day, we'll zoom out, and then we'll zoom way in, and I'll give some specific

details about what stuck out to me in that day's reading. At the end, we'll have a section

called the Godshot, where we look for the picture or snapshot of God's character from that

day's reading. The attribute of God that stands out

to me and that I reference in this section might be totally different than yours, and that's okay.

This is a multi-layered book, so don't expect that we'll all notice the same things every time.

By the way, we're not looking for our application point here. This isn't your to-do list. This is

what you saw about God. What he

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