Two quick things before we jump in. First is we will be sending you a little survey.

We are not above feedback. In fact, we welcome it.

And so you will get a survey sometime before the end of the week asking for your input on how the study

went and how you might think that things could go better. We're also open to

encouragement as well, so feel free to put that on there if you want. But we do hope

that you will just take time to fill that out because it does really help us to see if there are things we need to be looking at or ways we can improve.

So that's coming your way.

And then also just remember that in September we will start with the book of Joshua and then we will do

the book of judges and so I'm really looking forward to that. In Joshua we will get to talk

about the light-hearted topic of genocide. Yay! So and then in judges we're going to have a

concubine who gets cut up and mailed around to a bunch of people. So it's going to be a

big year in the Old Testament and I don't know how you feel about studying the Old Testament

but I know that personally anytime I've ever gone back and done a study one of those

books there's always a little bit of fear in me when I start that there's going to be

something in there that is so crazy

that I don't have any way to fit it into my understanding of the character of God.

I'll just tell you that's the truth. That's the way that I feel sometimes looking

back at the Old Testament and so if I feel that way I'm pretty

sure you might have had that same experience and I just also want to

reassure you that any time I have gone back and studied the Old Testament and

given it the attention that I need to. I am always reassured and I am always more aware

than ever that God is exactly who he says he is and that his entire word is beneficial and is profitable. So I'm really

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