Years ago in a seminary class, we were studying a scriptural account of a woman,

and one of the young men blurted out that he felt the lesson didn't apply to the boys in the class

because it was about a woman in the scriptures.

Immediately, one of the older girls in class responded that girls spent much of their scripture study efforts

applying lessons learned from stories about men, and that if they could do it, so could he.

That young man hopefully learned a valuable lesson that day. It is an unfortunate fact that we have

precious few records of women's interactions with God and Scripture. However, we can make the most

of these few accounts by giving them extra attention and appreciating the universal lessons that can be learned by all of this.

This week, we get to study one of the most powerful stories of a righteous woman in Scripture as we dive into the book of Esther.

Welcome to the Scripture Study Project.

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

with you.

Our goal each week is to 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 His Word. Invest your heart and personal life into your study and connect with others

as you teach and learn together. Hello again, happy summer. Welcome to this week's episode.

You'll notice that I'm here this week, and that's almost more shocking, I think, than not.

But you'll probably notice also that I have a deepened voice

because... You went through puberty. Yes, exactly. Because I was out last week, because I'm like,

I don't even want to try to talk on the episode. So for your sake and for mine, thank you to Zach

for heading that up last week and hopefully you can put up

with a slightly deepened voice. This is... I can lower my voice so that it feels more equal.

I like that you start to do it as you say. As you say, I can deepen my... Anyway, it feels more

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