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planning center.com to get started for free. I think that there is a need to train women to rightly handle the Word of God in women's

ministries. And what was evident from the very beginning is that everybody knew this was a need.

And so if everybody knows it's a need, somebody should be stepping up to try to meet the need.

And so it was just such an encouragement to be able to do that.

Welcome to help me teach the Bible. I'm Nancy Guthrie.

Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the gospel coalition sponsored by Crossway,

a not-for-profit publisher of the ESV Bible, Christian Books and Tracks.

Learn more at crossway.org.

It's not very often that I get to record an episode

of Help Me Teach the Bible right in my own house and with one of my best buddies. I mean, I know

I talk a lot to a lot of people on this podcast and we talk about being friends and we are to a certain

degree. But today I'm getting to talk to really one of my buddies Lee Swanson Lee.

Thank you for joining me to help us teach the Bible.

You're welcome.

I'm so happy to be here.

I have fed her a scrambled egg and toast with honey butter.

And I was thrilled with that. Okay. It was fantastic.

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