You're listening to the Bible for Normal People,

the only God-ordained podcast on the internet.

Serious talk about the sacred book.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Welcome everyone to this episode of The Bible for Normal People.

Today we're going to be talking about the book of Jeremiah.

And I'm very excited about this.

It's one of my favorite books.

It's a big book.

So of course, we're not going to be able to cover everything

and every nuance, which my nerdy self, of course, wants to do.

But we're really going to talk about three main themes

that we find in the book of Jeremiah.

And I think they're very relevant to our current political climate,

but also our podcast, of course, is we're talking about the Bible

and it's what is the Bible and what do we do with it.

And before we get started on these three themes, though,

I think we should take a minute to talk about a little bit

of the boring stuff, the historical context of where, where in time,

and where in the geopolitical world we are.

Because that really is the important backdrop to Jeremiah.

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