Introducing the Women of the Word Podcast with Jen Wilkin

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today we are pleased to share with you the first episode of Crossway's newest podcast that launches today: 'Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Jen Wilkin'. Join Jen Wilkin over the next ten weeks as she walks through methods, tips, and encouragements to study the Bible more deeply so we might know and love the God of the Bible better. Jen Wilkin is a Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. As an advocate for biblical literacy, she has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts and authored several books, including the best seller Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds that this podcast is based. ❖ Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. ❖ This podcast is also releasing as a video podcast on YouTube here. ❖ Check out Jen Wilkin's other books: In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing) Ten Words to Live By: Delighting in and Doing What God Commands ❖ To get 30% off her books or any other Crossway releases create a Crossway+ account today. Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	Today, we're pleased to share with you the first episode of Crossway's newest podcast,
0:07.6	Women of the Word, How to Study the Bible, with Jen Wilkin.
0:11.6	In this 10-week podcast, author Jen Wilkin shares basic strategies, practical tips, and helpful
0:16.7	encouragement for Bible study that transforms both the mind and the heart. We hope that you enjoy
0:22.4	this first episode from the show entitled How Studying the Bible Changed My Life.
0:31.6	Hi everyone, welcome to the Women of the Word podcast.
0:38.8	I'm Laurence Sousanto.
0:39.8	I'm here with my friend and Bible study teacher, Jen Wilkin.
0:43.6	Jen, thanks so much for joining me today.
0:45.3	I'm so excited to talk with you about all things Bible study.
0:48.1	Me too, really looking forward to it.
0:50.7	So the name of this podcast is actually the name of your first book, Women of the Word, which you
0:55.2	wrote back in 2014. And that book was all about how women, although it really was for anybody,
1:01.5	how they can learn to study the Bible with both their hearts and their minds. And that's what
1:05.7	you and I are going to do together today. We're going to explore those topics, how we can know
1:09.5	and love the Bible better and ultimately love the God who it points to. So let's jump in. Jen, can you talk about why you
1:16.0	wrote Women of the Word? Yeah, I was just doing ministry in my local church and was seeing an
1:22.6	increased need for studies that were, this is going to sound terrible, but that were just actually getting
1:28.0	into the scripture itself.
1:30.8	When I was in my early 20s and had my first child and started like, finally, I wasn't
1:35.8	working and had the opportunity to go to my church and attend women's Bible study.
1:39.7	And pretty much the entire Bible study diet at that time for the women, at least in the church that
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