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Theology is to be lived.

It's more about intimacy with Jesus than it is accruing information about God.

Thank you. intimacy with Jesus than it is accruing information about God. With 30 plus years of ministry experience, it is so great to have best-selling author,

popular speaker, and Bible teacher Lisa Harper joining us today to discuss a Jesus-shaped life, taking theological

concepts and transforming them into practical wisdom that we can apply to our everyday lives.

Lisa, I'm so thankful that you hear on takeaways.

Thank you for having me. I was so tickled.

Well, I know you've worked at Focus on the Family, and you've been writing books for so long,

and the size of that Bible is shocking.

It's all smoking mirrors.

With all of the notes and everything that you've got in there.

And you've written a book on theology.

Why did you write this book of all books?

You know, I went back to school.

I've been studying a doctorate for the last several years

because I brought my daughter home from Haiti. And I thought, Missy, with English as a second language,

is, you know, school's going to be probably dicey. And I thought, I'll just go back to school so we can do

homework at the kitchen table together. And I think, you know, we learn about Jesus through Holy Spirit

and through this love letter we call the Bible. So I thought that'll kind of be cool to go back

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