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The Bible Recap

Prep Episode 2: How I Learned to Love (Reading) the Bible

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.936.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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SHOW NOTES: - Head to our Start Page for all you need to begin!- Join the RECAPtains- Check out the TBR Store- Show creditsPREP EPISODES (in case you haven’t listened yet):1. Let's Read the Bible in a Year (Chronological Plan)! 2. How I Learned to Love (Reading) the Bible3. Why Reading the Whole Bible is Important (interview with Lee McDerment)4. Preparing to Read the Bible5. Avoiding Common Mistakes: What to Look for When You Read the Bible6. Reading the Bible in CommunityBIBLE READING & LISTENING:Follow along on the Bible App, or to listen to the Bible, try Dwell!SOCIALS:The Bible Recap: Instagram | Facebook | TikTokD-Group: Instagram | FacebookTLC: Instagram | FacebookD-GROUP:D-Group is brought to you by the same team that brings you The Bible Recap. TBR is where we read the Bible, and D-Group is where we study the Bible. D-Group is an international network of Bible study groups that meet weekly in homes, churches, and online. Find or start one near you today!DISCLAIMER: The Bible Recap, Tara-Leigh Cobble, and affiliates are not a church, pastor, spiritual authority, or counseling service. Listeners and viewers consume this content on a voluntary basis and assume all responsibility for the resulting consequences and impact. Links to specific resources and content: This is not an endorsement of the entire website, author, organization, etc.. Their views may not represent our own.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

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

0:17.5

the Bible, because that wasn't always my story.

0:20.2

And I figured if you and I are going to spend every morning having a conversation, it might

0:23.8

be nice to hear a little bit about each other.

0:26.0

I grew up in a Christian home and my first memory is my mom teaching me John 316, around

0:30.3

the time I was 3 years old.

0:31.9

Not long after that, my brother Jason asked me if I wanted to be a Christian, and he prayed

0:35.5

with me to follow Christ with my life.

0:37.6

I was probably only about 4 years old, so I had very little idea of what that amount

0:41.3

had to, but I think most of us rarely understand what's happening when we first respond to Jesus.

0:46.6

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

0:50.2

Church 3 times a week, Christian school, and even my summers and weekends were spent working

0:54.5

in the Christian bookstore my family owns.

0:56.8

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

1:00.5

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

1:04.8

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

1:08.3

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

1:11.6

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

1:15.1

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

1:19.1

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

1:23.3

I replied with something like, I think I have.

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