Here's Jen Wilkin.

The supreme act of self-control is to control your tongue.

You think you're awesome because you made it through Whole 30?

That's nothing.

Not one person in this room is free from this besetting sin.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, January 11, 2016.

Well, if you've listened to Revive Our Hearts for any length of time, you know that we think

it's really important for Christian women to teach other women the Word and the Ways of God,

as described in Titus Chapter 2 and other passages in God's Word. In fact, Revive Our Heart sponsored

a conference called Revive 15 Women Teaching Women this past fall.

I got so much out of that conference myself and the excellent speakers who joined us that weekend.

We're going to hear from one of those speakers today, my friend, Jen Wilkin.

If you've never considered yourself a teacher, I want to encourage you to listen to Jen

and to be asking yourself, how could I invest in other women and share what I've learned

with them? What could that look like? What steps could I take in 2016? Let's listen now as

Jen Wilkin talks about teaching the word in fear and fearlessness.

So when I was in high school, I met the first teacher who ever knocked my socks off.

Her name was Carol Wagner, and she taught Senior Honors English at Wichita Falls High School in Wichita Falls, Texas, a sunny little garden spot on the

border of Oklahoma. She said ironically. Now, I don't know what she was doing in our community.

In fact, it made us all, as her students asked the question, why is she here? The question that I am now

posing to you. We got into class

the first week of school, and she had us do a writing assignment. I had never gotten anything

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