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 one of our

James study. For week one, we are joined by our personal friend, but also best-selling author of

several books and Bible studies, Jeannie Cunning. We love Jeannie. Her most recent book is a devotional

called Closer to God, A 40-day pursuit of God's personal presence.

So excited about that book.

That's available at wherever books are sold.

But y'all, we are so excited to be opening this short epistle on this letter from James, the Brother of Jesus.

And let's get right to this conversation with Jeannie.

Jeannie Cunion, welcome back to the She Read's Truth podcast.

Thanks for having me back.

I say welcome back, having never actually hosted you.

I know.

The last two times that you've been on.

Yeah, I've been avoiding you.

I'm just going to be.

It's what's true.

No, I, so you were a guest for Proverbs, and I missed recording that one. We were, like, trying to remember why. I can't even remember. Who could know? Life happens sometimes. And then way back in 2022, you were a guest for John, and I missed that, too. And I want you to know that I've not been avoiding you. I know. I know. I'm just so happy that the three of us are doing it now. Me too. And for such a good book. I mean, here we are. I feel like we studied the book of Psalms for seven weeks for Lent. And now it feels like a little more rapid fire. Like we studied Beatitudes for two weeks. And now we're opening the book of James together. And it's just such a different pace. Yeah. I'm excited. Do you still pinch yourself that you get to do this? Yes. It's so fun. Seriously. And it's, it is such a good combination because it challenges me. I mean, I think I speak for both of us. Oh, 100%. It challenges me so much. It encourages me so much.

Yeah.

I learn so much.

The most frustrating thing to me, I think, about hosting this podcast is that I feel like I don't often, there are a lot of times I want to, like, marinate on something that I've heard, you know, that we've learned together. Yeah. But we have to keep going. We move at such a quick pace. And so I've started sort of kind of like keeping a log of things that I want to return to at some point. Oh, I like that. But yeah, I mean, it is, it is really, it's a really sweet gig. So for context for our friends listening, we go out of a quicker clip than the community goes,

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