Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you've ever closed your Bible and thought, what did I just read? The Bible recap is for

you. And the good news is you're not alone. Lots of people struggle in their relationship

with scripture. Most people who struggle try to stick to the Psalms and Proverbs because at least those

makes sense to them.

Or maybe they flip around in their Bible and try to find something relatable,

but then they hit something confusing or off-putting and they can't seem to make sense of how it all fits together.

Maybe they decide to start a Bible reading plan, usually at the beginning of a year when they're

working on New Year's resolutions.

They launch out with ambition and zeal on January 1, but they begin to lose interest in a few weeks and by

mid-February they've fallen off the wagon altogether.

This was me too.

It was like, okay, I've read through Genesis eight times, but nothing beyond that.

Can you relate, are you on track to being a Genesis scholar right along with me?

Or maybe you've never even ventured into the Old Testament at all, because you're only comfortable

with scripture after Jesus seems to show up on the scene.

Maybe you didn't know he's actually throughout the Old Testament as well,

but it's actually all about him.

Some people are so perplexed by scripture that they just leave their Bible on the shelf

and use a daily devotional instead. They figure obviously I'm not capable of hearing from God

firsthand so I'll just hear from him secondhand. Don't get me wrong, some

devotionals are great. I love some of the stuff by Spurgeon and Chambers but a lot of the things we're

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