Impact Conversation Series: Tara-Leigh Cobble and Art Rainer
The RELEVANT Podcast
RELEVANT Magazine
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of our Impact Conversations series, we sit down with Tara-Leigh Cobble, creator of The Bible Recap — one of the most influential Bible-reading podcasts in the world. Tara-Leigh shares how The Bible Recap started, how she built a global Bible-reading community and what she’s learned about Scripture, calling and obedience along the way. If you’re trying to understand the Bible or want to stay consistent in your Bible reading plan, this conversation is for you.
We also feature a bonus interview with Christian financial expert Art Rainer, who breaks down how to approach money, generosity and financial stress from a biblical perspective. If you’re looking for Christian financial advice, how to give when money is tight or how to steward your resources well, you’ll want to hear this.
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CHAPTERS:
02:37 — Tara-Leigh Cobble: How The Bible Recap Started
06:04 — Building the podcast with a $99 mic
08:45 — When the calling gets costly
10:55 — The story that kept her going
14:43 — Leadership, discernment and calling
16:49 — Feeling unqualified but called
21:09 — Advice for taking your first step
23:17 — Bonus Interview: Art Rainer
26:13 — Money is a tool, not a goal
28:10 — How to be generous when money is tight
33:31 — Giving, debt and proportional generosity
37:00 — Creative ways to be generous without money
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Cameron Strang, and this is the relevant podcast Impact Conversation series. |
| 0:05.2 | On this installment, we're talking with someone who's made an impact in the spiritual walk of millions of people. |
| 0:11.2 | Hopefully you've caught our previous conversations with generosity influencer Jimmy Darts, |
| 0:16.2 | entrepreneur David Meltzer, Pastor Mark Batterson, Adventure Bear Grills, and U-Version founder Bobby Grunwald. |
| 0:23.1 | If you haven't, definitely do yourself a favor. Check those episodes out. They're right here |
| 0:27.0 | in the relevant feed. Today we're joined by Tara Lee Cobble, the founder of the Bible Recap |
| 0:32.3 | podcast and one of the most influential guides helping people fall in love with Scripture. |
| 0:39.3 | In 2019, she launched a simple idea. What if there were a daily, accessible, theologically solid companion that help people |
| 0:44.6 | actually understand what they were reading in the Bible? Six years later, that idea has |
| 0:48.5 | become a global discipleship movement with hundreds of millions of downloads across the |
| 0:52.5 | podcast and reading plan and a community |
| 0:54.7 | that spans every corner of the church. |
| 0:57.3 | Tara Lee's story is unique. |
| 0:58.8 | She isn't a tech founder or a media strategist. |
| 1:01.4 | She's a Bible teacher who spent years discipling small groups and walking people through |
| 1:05.7 | scripture one conversation at a time. |
| 1:08.1 | When she realized how many Christians were discouraged or intimidated by reading the |
| 1:11.3 | Bible, she set out to create a tool that could bridge that gap. What began as a grassroots |
| 1:16.4 | project became one of the most trusted biblical resources in the world, helping people grasp |
| 1:20.8 | the story of scripture with clarity, consistency, and joy. In her conversation with |
| 1:26.5 | relevance managing editor Emily Brown, |
| 1:28.8 | Tara Lee shares how this journey has stretched her faith, deep into dependence on God, |
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