Hey, Dana Gresh here. Before today's program begins, I want to invite you to continue to pray for my friend and yours, Nancy.

As you may know, her husband, Robert Walgamuth, went home to be with the Lord this past weekend.

Would you ask God to just comfort Nancy today and in the days ahead?

And I want you to know that Nancy recorded the teaching

you'll hear later on before Robert was even sick. Now, here's today's program.

Kelly Needham says your Bible is like a library, but not just any library. It is a group of books put

together to tell one story, but behind them, there is a proclamation from these pages. This book

is breathed out by God himself, the very spirit of God, operating through humans. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with

Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest. For January 16th, 2026, I'm Dana Gresh.

If you're walking through the 2026 Bible reading plan with us, today we're reading Exodus 5 through 7.

Have you ever been on Bible study autopilot? Oh, I know I have. This is when you're cruising through your reading plan and it just starts

to feel a little routine. You begin reading mindlessly. You lose the wonder. Today, Kelly

Needham is answering a question that I think will be powerful enough to snap us out of our

Bible study stupor. That question is this. What is the Bible? It's simple, I know, but sometimes we just need to

take a step back and remember what book we're holding in our hands. Kelly Needham is a pastor's wife,

a mom, and founder of Teach Equip. And this spring, she's releasing a brand new Bible study with

Lifeway called

See for Yourself How to Study Your Bible with Confidence and Joy. Oh, sounds like an amazing

study. What you're about to hear is a sneak peek from session two of the accompanying video.

Here's Kelly. We need to talk about the structure of this book, because if you have spent any

time reading the Bible, you know it is unlike any other book on your bookshelf. It is confusing

to a lot of us. We're sometimes looking around in it and going, what's happening in this book?

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