Hello and welcome to the She Read's Truth podcast. She reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day.

Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week.

I'm your host, Rachel Myers.

And I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams. And you all, we are at our seventh and final week of our people in the Old Testament series. And I'm sad. I'm sad. I know. I loved this. It has been so good and so fast. But we are joined today with our new friend and neighbor just down the street in Spring Hill, Tennessee, Ian Simpkins.

Ian is the lead pastor of teaching and vision at the bridge in Spring Hill.

He's married to Katie.

They have three young boys.

We talked a little bit about family life before we hit record, and they are in the thick of the young years and loving it.

But this was just a fun conversation to really they are in the thick of the young years and loving it. But this was just a fun

conversation to really just delight in these stories and the questions that we have and the

connections that we found. And it was just a really sweet way to end the series. So without

further ado, let's get right to it. Let's get right to it.

Ian Simpkins, welcome to the Shirey's Truth podcast. Love that you are down the road.

Always fun to have like a local guy, even though we are online today. So happy to have you.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I'm honored.

If we're on our last week, like we for weeks so far, have been studying these stories of people in the Old Testament.

And it's been fun to kind of, like, have these, like, handpicked.

Because, like, how do you pick?

Whose stories to study?

But this is the last week.

Like, we're on the final lap.

And so bad you're joining us. We're going to talk about Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Bednego, Zerubbable, Esther, and Nehemiah.

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