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

Today I want to tell you how I got to this place, hosting this podcast and loving reading the Bible,

because that wasn't always my story. And I figured if you and I are going to spend every morning having a conversation, it might be nice to hear a little bit about each other.

I grew up in a Christian home and my first memory is my mom teaching me John 316, around the time I was three years old.

Not long after that my brother Jason

asked me if I wanted to be a Christian and he prayed with me to follow Christ with my life.

I was probably only about four years old so I had very little idea of what that amounted to,

but I think most of us rarely understand what's happening

when we first respond to Jesus.

But I was in an environment that gave me every opportunity to learn.

Church three times a week, Christian school, and even my summers and weekends were spent

working in the Christian bookstore my family owns.

I started writing Bible studies in high school and college and I had a real love for the things

I did know about the Bible, but I'd never really read through the Bible.

During college I started on a path toward full-time ministry and I made lots of friends traveling

the world as a musician and a writer and a speaker.

One of those friends was a pastor named Lee who lives in South Carolina.

I lived in New York City at the time but I toured in the South regularly and I

remember one day at his church when he casually asked me if I'd ever read through the

whole Bible.

I replied with something like,

I think I have, I've probably pieced it together over the years and covered the whole thing that way.

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