Did you know getting into God's word is like eating a balanced diet?

Kelly Needham says this.

It is a food for our souls. It's spiritual nourishment.

And so it creates a spiritual vitality and health in us and in me that I feel in some

really specific ways and some just general sense of well there's a general feeling of joy and contentment that's present.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy Damas Walgamuth, author of Heaven Rules.

For July 29, 2024, I'm Dana Gresh.

If you've been around revive our hearts, you know that almost every January we start off challenging ourselves and you to get into God's word. We talk about ways to prioritize it and

make habits around opening the Bible. Well, it's July, over halfway through the

year and our well-intentioned New Year's habits may have fallen by the wayside.

Maybe you started off the year with a passion for reading God's word, but you've slowly drifted.

Maybe you've kept with it but found your appetite for

the Bible waning. Or maybe you're new to knowing God or reading his word and you're

wondering where do I start? Well today I think we need to

go back to why. Why do we read the Bible? Why did God give it to us? Why do we need to

spend time in it? The answer to those questions can spark the passion we need

and to help us answer them we have a familiar friend of Revive Our Hearts, Kelly Needham.

Kelly has been a Revive Our Hearts blogger for quite some time. She's spoken at some of our

events and she's the author of a book called Friendish, reclaiming real friendship in a culture of

confusion. Kelly loves teaching women to study

the word. Welcome Kelly. Thanks Dana. Nancy it's great to be with you guys today.

I am so looking forward to us having this conversation. One of the things

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