Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast.

For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube.

Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time, where our goal is to help people delight

in God's Word.

We also have a website and storefront with Bible studies, prayer journals, and more.

I'm Mentor Mama, and today we are going to be talking about the difficult words of Jesus. So have you ever been reading the

New Testament and heard the words of Jesus and just been completely puzzled? Well, if so, you're not

alone. Some of the words of Jesus challenged not only beginners, but even seasoned students of scripture.

So thankfully, we have scholars who have spent years and years studying the scriptures to help us

understand them better. And I'm just so honored today to have with us A.J. Levineine, who with her sharp intellect, humor, and imagination

is going to help bring these challenging texts alive for us and invite us in as active

participants in the gospel story. So, but first, a word from our sponsor. We still have our coupon code available

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