Hello and welcome to the She Reads Truth Podcast. She Reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible,

Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day. Each week

here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week.

I'm your host Amanda Bible Williams.

And I'm your other host Rachel Myers and this is Week Two of Two. As we open the book

of Ezra and lots of core leading scriptures and learn what God has to teach us both in

that narrative and just the dynamic of the people of Israel and Ezra, the scribe and the

priest. This is a beautiful book. It's also a book to wrestle with and we're grateful

for the guests that we have today. Dr. Noah Garcia is the senior pastor at North Phoenix

Baptist Church. He also serves on the evangelism team for the North American Mission Board. He's

great. We have loved talking with him this episode. He pastored us really beautifully

and I think that you'll find that to be true for you as well. This is a great episode.

And y'all, as you know, this is Week Two of the Two Week series. After that, we're going

to go into some bonus episodes for a couple of weeks and then we're going to jump into

the book of Judges. Now, Judges is another one where you're going to want that book. If

you don't have it already, you can go to shop she reads truth.com and for $5 off, you

can enter Judges podcast five. That's Judges podcast and then the number five and you get

$5 off of anything in the Judges collection. So go ahead and get that book ordered and

we will jump on the Judges train shortly. But for now, let's get right to the book of

Ezra. Welcome to Week Two of the Book of Ezra. We're pumped to have you here. This is going

to be, I mean, it's not a smooth and easy week, but it's going to be an interesting one.

I'm glad you're with us. Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to dig in the

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