Happy New Year's Day, welcome to 2024.

It's a great honor to be doing the Aspestrogen podcast for another year, the start of our 12th

year in a row now.

God has been kind to us as we record

episodes now numbering over 2,000. That's a lot of episodes well. Well if you use a

read-through the Bible plan you probably started afresh today I know I did

pastor John I know you did we've been talking a lot about Bible reading in the

podcast we recently looked at how you how you how you passed on the Bible

on a given topic.

That was A.B.J. episode number 1998.

So practical.

And then we saw how even the grammar of the Bible

intends for us to have a practical, emotional, intellectual, behavioral effect on our lives

today.

Another super practical Bible reading tool that you gave us in A.B.J. 2002, and then we looked at why a daily Bible reading habit is essential for our

spiritual growth that was episode 2003 and then last time on a Thursday in

episode 2006 we asked what do we do when our Bible reading seems flat and you pointed us to Proverbs 2217

that text that calls us to the discipline of applying our hearts, applying our hearts to what we read, and you

demonstrated the practice in your own life.

It was great, really helpful, and I think if any of us are going to get through the whole Bible this year in

2024 that element of Proverbs 22-17 that will have to be an essential

ingredient to our success.

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