Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hi friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we're going

to begin the book of first drawn.

If you haven't yet, go check out my intro video for this book on our Daily Grace

podcast Instagram account. There I'll share some important background information about the book and that will help you make sense of it as we read it together.

And if you want further resources to help you read the Bible in a year, check out our website, the Dailyco.com and look for the Story of Redemption

series which is going to walk you through every day's reading and give you a

quick and applicable study to go along with it. All right, so first John, let me start with this.

You may recall being in English class,

and you were taught how to properly structure a piece of writing. You were probably told

that you need to have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion and that all these

parts should point to a common theme or main idea. Well, John, who is most likely the author of this book, he didn't

take that class. So sometimes the verses and chapters in this book seem like they just don't flow very well at all.

And the truth is that sometimes they don't. But that doesn't mean that what he is

saying is any less true or any less important.

It just means that we may feel confused at times

and we may need to work a little harder

to find the point that he's trying to make.

But the main point of first drawn is this, Jesus' light and love.

And if we believe in him, then we should reflect his light and love to those around us.

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