Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

Welcome to Susie Larson Live. Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully

inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's Word and that

heightens your awareness of his very real

presence in your life. So what comes to mind when you think about Jesus? Meek, mild, fierce?

Can you picture Jesus mad? Can you picture him sad? Have we maybe at times reduced Jesus to this

flannelgraph version that we learned about in Sunday school? If it's been a while since you've

encountered the living God, you maybe have diminished the image of Jesus without even graph version that we learned about in Sunday school. If it's been a while since you've encountered

the living God, you maybe have diminished the image of Jesus without even realizing it. Well,

my guest today, I have two of them, but the first one, she's not only a biblical scholar. She's

hilariously funny, down to earth, recently launched a podcast called Back Porch Theology.

She also is joined by a dear friend of mine and a dear friend of

hers, her co-host, Alice and Alice, who's also been on this show before. We're going to get them on

in just a moment, a quick announcement here first. If you're new to the faith and you want a book

to kind of walk with you alongside, or maybe you're leading someone to Christ or discipling them

as they're new in their faith. Bethany House Publishers has offered us 100 copies of the book,

a simple path to following Jesus by Rusty George. You can register to win a copy or two on our website

at myfaith radio.com. All right. So let me talk about my first guest, Lisa Harper. She has been on before and every time she's on, I feel like on one hand I'm laughing my hat off and the next hand I'm knocked between the eyeballs with some theological insight. But rarely are the terms hilarious storyteller and theological scholar used in the same sentence, much less used to describe the same person. But then again, Lisa Harper's anything

but stereotypical. That is so true. She's a compelling communicator who's writing and speaking

emphasize the accruing knowledge about God pales next to the real and intimate relationship we

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