Hello and welcome to the Sheerings Truth Podcast where we open our

Bibles and talk about the beauty, goodness and truth we find there.

I'm your host Rachel Myers and I'm your other host Amanda Bible Williams and

this is the first in our Ephesians series and we are so excited to have our

friend and special guest Jenny Allen with us. Jenny is the visionary behind

if gathering. She's a New York Times bestselling author and she's recently

launched a new series of books for children called Theolaby. Theolaby which

we're so excited about. This is a wonderful episode Jenny just brings the fire

as she always does and we think you're gonna love it. Let's go.

Okay Jenny I woke up this morning excited about this like excited to talk

about Ephesians one and two with my friend Jenny and my friend Amanda. Yeah yeah

I'm excited. I know we're friends. The book of Ephesians preaches and it

reforms and it informs and it slices and it's just I was reading it yesterday and

out loud in my living room and that's just something that happens in our house

and so if you're walking through the kitchen you're just gonna hear mom reading

out loud books of the life. Look as it's how I process it's how I digest what I'm

reading and I like an audience but I was just reading it yesterday and just I

think the the thing about the book of Ephesians you can read the whole book in

20 minutes. It's not long. It's a letter. It's meant to be read in one sitting.

We're reading it over the course of three weeks but we also encourage the

she's to read the whole book before we start. Read the whole thing 20 minutes

but it does read like a letter and it has a theme. It has this theme of unity in

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