Wherever you are on your journey to know and love God,

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary wants to come alongside you to empower you to further serve in your local context.

Southeastern offers a variety of flexible degree options to equip you to serve in your local church, on the mission field, or in the relationships you engage with on a daily basis.

Southeastern believes God has commanded each of us to go and make disciples by teaching his word and sharing the truth about Jesus Christ.

That's why they offer a diverse selection of certificate programs, master's degrees, and advanced degrees to help equip women to serve in the church and fulfill the Great Commission.

Southeastern would be privileged to play a part in your growth in God's word and your training to fulfill the Great Commission in all of life.

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Welcome to the summer series of the Journey Women Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Bealus. Life's a journey we were never meant to walk alone. We all need friends along the way.

On the Journey Women Podcast, we'll chat with mentors about gracefully navigating the seasons and challenges we face on our journeys to glorify God.

We are calling this summer series, let's talk about, and in it, we are going to be talking about topics that we deal with every day, that we think about a lot, but that we don't often take the time to think about biblically, like food, clothing, sexuality, and heartache.

But one of these conversations has helped orient me to the truth of scripture, and it's helped me to treasure the gospel in everyday moments, like eating, which is what we're going to talk about with my friend Irene Sun today.

If you don't know her, Irene Sun was born in Malaysia. She is the author of the picture book, God Counts, and she has a brand new book that you can pre-order right now called Taste and See All About God's Goodness.

I love it. As you're here, Irene studied liturgy and liturator at Yale University, and the Old Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

She now teaches her four boys at home with her preacher husband, Hans, and I can't wait for you to learn from her today.

Irene Sun, welcome back to the Journey Women Podcast.

Thank you so much, Hunter.

I have told you this before. You are one of my favorite people to get to talk to, and let me explain why to the listeners.

You just have such a wonderful way of putting things, and you always think about things from a different perspective than me.

I mean that as a compliment, because I'm like, huh, that's a perspective that I just haven't considered before.

I find your friendship just so sharpening, and I love how you always come with the truth.

That is something that I can count on from Irene Sun, so thank you for being that friend to me, even at a distance.

Thank you for having me. My favorite thing about the two of us being together is that we laugh, abandoning everything else.

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