Hey friends, Rachel here. I'm so excited about this episode, but I want to tell you,

I think there are a lot of ways that you can give back this holiday season,

but I want you to stick around through the break because I want to talk to you

about a really unique way that you can give back this holiday season with our partner food for the hungry.

All right, let's get to the show.

Hello and welcome to the Sheerate's Truth Podcast, where we open our Bibles and talk

about the beauty, goodness, and truth we find there. I'm your host, Rachel Myers,

and I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams. And today we're joined by our friend,

Jackie Hill Perry. Jackie is truly one of a kind. She is a writer, a speaker. She's a spoken word,

poet. Most recently she published a Bible study on the Book of Jude. If that tells you anything

about Jackie, she will dig into the Book of Jude for a year to write a seven week Bible study on it.

We love this friend and sister in Christ, and we think you're going to enjoy this episode.

Let's get to it. Well, this is our third week of our Proverbs series. And we have talked through

Proverbs that lift our gaze upward to God. We've talked about Proverbs that look inward into our

inner life. And this week we're talking about Proverbs that are about our relationships with like

our immediate people, those who are around us. And so next week we'll get to Proverbs about the world

where there are a lot of, you know, lots of talk about material things and wealth and

that sort of thing. And so this week is, it's a very personal, I think I, I don't know if I didn't

know, like hadn't recognized it or just had forgotten how personal the Book of Proverbs is,

especially when you divide it up like this. Like if you're just reading straight through,

I feel like it's easy to kind of like, loud it out of that. Oh, that's interesting. That's interesting.

But when you divide it up and actually separate out, for example, these day one, well, day one is

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