This is the Scripture Study Project.

We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study Scripture with you.

Each episode we help you discover new or renewed excitement for God and His Word.

Invest your heart and personal life into your study and connect with others as you

teach and learn together. Welcome back to the Scripture Study Project. We are here in 2023. We didn't

know we would be back. So we're welcome back to us. I was going to say we're welcoming back you and ourselves because at the end of

2022 when we ended our study of the Old Testament, we knew that we were ready to move

on from our weekly episodes of following along with a Come Follow

Me study. We have done now five years of weekly episodes, which I am kind of shocked that we did

that. And it was a lot of hard work sometimes to keep that consistency. But with a little bit of, I guess, I don't know what to say, sorrow

or sadness, we won't be doing the weekly episodes this year. But also with a lot of excitement

for us, because I think we felt like there was something more that we could do, as we debated even just,

you know, calling it quits and being done for now, but we just were ready to maybe go on a

different deeper level.

And the word I kept thinking of was slow it down a little bit for us to have more time

to study, to connect with you in different ways

and really to study things that were meaningful to us in context with the study of the New

Testament and maybe branching out a little from there. You know when we started this five years ago

six years ago, five years ago, about five, five years ago.

One of the main reasons we started, if you remember, was we felt like people weren't talking about scripture.

There just wasn't a lot of scriptural literacy.

And so we started that first book of Mormon season thinking, well, we can talk about scripture on a podcast.

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