Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. Before we hop in I want to tell you what we are going to start doing in January.

Starting right at the very beginning of January we are going to read through the Gospel of Mark together and our goal

is that people who are setting goals would join us. I just find that at the

beginning of January a lot of people say I want to start reading my Bible for the first time or I want to start

reading it again or I just want to read it more and that's a great aspiration. Maybe you're thinking

that for yourself and so I hope you'll join us as we read through the gospel of

Mark we actually will have it's really cool it's called a guided Bible reading plan

it's a little devotion it has three devotions in every single week and it

walks you through questions that not only explain

Mark to you but help you apply it to your life but here's the key if you're

listening to this you're doing something already in your life to get the Bible into

your life but my guess is that you have a

friend or maybe a spouse or a parent or a coworker who would love to be in the

Bible but they're not going to do it unless they have a friend to do that with

why don't you think about that person and

invite them to not just listen to 10 minute Bible talks but to download that little

devotional and begin making this a new habit, a new goal in their life starting right at the beginning of the year.

We have links to that in our show notes.

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