Hi, this is Sarah Perkins-Saby, one of the authors of the Bible storybook. We're so excited to have partnered with Faith Matters to bring you beautifully told scripture stories as a podcast that you can listen to with your kids and share with your friends and family. We're making half of the stories available completely free as a podcast called Scripture Stories for Little Saints, and the other half are available to donors and friends of Faith Matters as a thank you for your financial support that makes this collaboration possible.

If you have trouble accessing them, you can email Faith Matters at info at faithmatters.org, and they'll be happy to help.

Thank you so much for your generous and ongoing support.

We're so excited to share these stories with you and can't wait for you to hear them.

Now on to the podcast.

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

Today we're sharing a conversation with writers and filmmakers Sarah and Josh Sabie about their new project,

The Bible Storybook, which is a two-volume collection of 50 stories from the Old Testament.

You might remember their Book of Mormon storybook.

And like those earlier volumes, this new project is guided by a simple and beautiful idea,

that these are stories about a real God who loves real people, people who are complicated, wounded,

and doing their best to understand how God is working in their lives. For many of us, the Old

Testament can feel troubling, full of contradictions, harsh laws, and stories that might not always

align with the God that we've come to know through Jesus. So if the thought of spending a whole year

studying this text feels daunting, this episode

is especially for you. Sarah and Josh offer a powerful way back into these familiar stories

through a fresh and deeply thoughtful lens. While staying fully anchored in the text, they invite

us to see the people and events in new and meaningful ways. Their storytelling will invite you to

consider what the Exodus story teaches us about revenge and healing.

And what if Kane was actually the first perfectionist, undone by his impossible expectations?

And what can Jonah reveal about our own gifts and heartbreak?

Their retellings don't avoid what's difficult. They honor the tension.

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