Episode 65

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9th Jan 2025

#65. Is It Too Late to Make A Resolution? + "Get The Word Out" and the Color-Coding System You're About to Fall in Love With!

Is there something magical about January 1st? If you haven't made a resolution yet, are you too late? Absolutely not!

It's never too late to begin digging into Scripture to know the heart of God! We want to equip you in a way that is realistic and maintainable--yet also purposeful! Listen to hear Betsy and Stephanie share about "Get the Word Out: Developing a Devotional Lifestyle". They'll cover the tool of color-coding your Bible and describe how it helps you understand The Bible.

Head to our website for the 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year Bible Reading Plans.

Ready to know more about the color-coding system? We've got you colored... we mean, covered!

Want to hear an incredibly practical episode about staying faithful in the Word when little ones are running everywhere? Listen here.

Transcript
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They're the joyful agains our children shout on the swings, the

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exhausting agains of cooking and laundry,

and the difficult agains of discipline.

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So much of what we do

as mothers is on repeat.

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So what if we woke up with clarity,

knowing which agains we were called

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to, and went to bed believing we

are faithful in what matters most?

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We believe God's Word is

the key to untangle from the

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confusion and overwhelm we feel.

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Let's look up together to embrace a

motherhood full of freedom and joy.

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Is there something

magical about January 1st?

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Is this a really, the only time that

we can begin new year's resolutions.

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Or resolutions at all.

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If you miss the boat, is there another

appropriate time to change or to grow?

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Well, I know one thing, the creator

of the new year's resolution,

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certainly wasn't a tired mom.

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After pouring your heart and soul

and to making sure that Christ

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is the center of Christmas.

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And doing all the things and putting

up the tree and taking down the tree

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and making beautiful meals or traveling

to eat beautiful meals somewhere else.

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And pursuing those

perfectly thoughtful gifts.

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And staying up late, wrapping them.

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Doing all the things and being even more

tired than usual and feeling bogged down

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by having a little more sugar than usual.

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And then there's the decluttering.

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You've probably been working hard to make

sure that all the things that came with

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Christmas now have a place in your home.

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So if you're like me, You're

just ready to relax a little

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bit after the Christmas season.

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by the time, January 1st rolls around.

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I usually don't feel like I'm in

my best mindset to think about

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strategically planning out the new year.

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Oh, and throw in the fact that I have.

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Uh, kiddo whose birthday falls

that first week of January.

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But then there's this part that

can feel like we missed the boat.

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Like January 1st came.

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And we didn't stake our foot, that this

was going to be the year that we ate

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less sugar or worked out more faithfully.

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Or used our phone less or

we're in the word every day.

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Or drank more water.

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Or we're more intentional with

face-to-face relationships.

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Or finally tackled depression or anxiety.

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It could be so many things.

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But what does scripture say?

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Scripture says.

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That his mercies are new every morning.

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And any resolution that's made

in the flesh is doomed to fail.

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Because we were intended

to walk by the spirit.

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When Jesus said I am leaving, but

I will send a helper for you and

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it will be better for you if I go.

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He really did mean that we are

supposed to live through the power

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of the holy spirit in our lives.

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And that is so true for motherhood.

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We need the strength that he can provide.

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We know that the Lord is always

willing to help us grow closer to him.

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And then January 1st is just

another date on the calendar.

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Most people give up their

resolutions partway through January.

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Anyway.

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But it doesn't have to be, you.

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I can tell you after years of

being a determined goal-setter.

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The goals and resolutions that have

stuck for me are the ones that I

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know the Lord is calling me to make.

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Not the ones I feel I should make.

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Not the ones I feel others want

me to make, but the ones, the Lord

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himself is prompting in my spirit.

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And what has always topped

that list is being faithful.

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And reading my Bible.

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And the intro of, again, we

talk about living a life and

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a motherhood without regrets.

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And I've personally seen that every

moment I'm in God's word produces so much

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fruit in my life and in my parenting.

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It's contagious.

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And all of a sudden, once I get

that, right, the other pieces

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start to fall into place.

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When I feed my spirit.

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All of a sudden it's easier.

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To drink more water or even to work

out, it's easier to be patient with my

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children or give grace in my marriage.

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Prayers start flooding out

of my heart and scriptures.

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Come to my mind to pray for my friends.

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For me, this is a pivotal habit.

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When I'm faithful in the word, the

other things start to fall into place.

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Not always though.

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And when they don't, when

life is still chaotic.

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I know that I have invested

in the right things.

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Jesus said where your investment is there.

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Your heart will be also, I have seen that

and I have seen increased joy and delight.

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As I've spent more and

more time in the word.

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And we want to equip you to be

faithful in the word as well.

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We have three Bible reading plans on our

website, under the resources section.

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I'll link those in the show notes.

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We have a one-year Bible reading plan.

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If you think, you know what?

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I have never really read

through the whole Bible.

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I just don't know if I completely

understand the whole scope

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and storyline of the Bible.

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And you want to devote yourself to that.

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Did you know, you can do that

in about 15 to 20 minutes a day.

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You could read through

the whole Bible this year.

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Maybe.

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You feel the prompting to

go a little bit slower pace.

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And be transformed by the word.

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And you want to take a two year approach

because you really want to make sure

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you're faithful and don't drop off.

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We have that reading plan for you as well.

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And then we have a three-year for

those that are really wanting to get

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out the commentaries and dig in, and

you may feel that you're in the most

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chaotic season of your life, but you

still want to be faithful to the Lord.

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You can dig in with that

three-year Bible reading plan.

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And in this episode, I'm going to

bring you a part of a conversation that

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Betsy and I had about a Bible reading

curriculum called get the word out.

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She and her husband, David have

been working on this for decades.

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It's great for individuals, for

groups, for men, for women, for new

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moms, pregnant moms, retired women.

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Everyone.

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If you are the kind of person that has

sermon notes falling out of your Bible.

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This is a great system to

organize your study of scripture.

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The subtitle is developing

a devotional lifestyle.

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Because Betsy and David

really wanted to equip.

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Others too.

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Build their own systematic study of

scripture, something that works for them.

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And they each use it differently.

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And I use it a little bit

differently than them even.

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It might sound overwhelming.

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So we're going to break it up into

parts and release several episodes.

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On the weeks to come.

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But today we're talking about

one of our very favorite tools

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that you can employ right away.

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And this is the color coding system.

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We have the bookmark for only 50

cents on our website at even if you

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don't order, there's a great PDF.

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That explains how this works.

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And what the colors are to choose.

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I have to tell you that this has been

so pivotal in my walk with the Lord

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in my understanding of scripture and

helping me think deeply and process.

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Instead of focusing on maybe

the busy little ones around me,

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it has helped streamline my

thoughts to stay on the word.

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We will have get the word out

on our website very shortly.

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If you just can't wait.

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And it sounds so phenomenal, you can

contact us through the website and I can

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even get you an advance ordering link.

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Otherwise just listen in and see

how you can utilize this new tool.

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I also am going to link in the show

notes, a conversation, Jen Frankman

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and I had about how we made it

work to be faithful in the word

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as we were parenting little ones.

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And as they've grown, what.

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Our time looks like now we give

lots of practical ideas in there

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and I'm going to link to that.

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And I just want to encourage you.

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It doesn't have to be perfect.

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It might look different in this season,

but you will not regret getting your eyes

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on the word or even having it playing.

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Throughout your house so you can hear it.

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He is waiting.

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He is there for you?

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A lot of people know about

intestine with a child's heart.

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Not as many people know

about, get the word out yet.

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So get the word out is subtitled

developing a devotional lifestyle, and

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it is an incredible resource to help you.

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Develop how you study God's word.

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And there are many tools here that Betsy

and David have spent 20 plus years.

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45 years.

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Wow.

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So I can personally attest that.

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I think my favorite Bible study

that I've ever been in was just

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using a couple of these tools that

the ladies and I did together.

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And it was so incredibly fruitful.

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And that season.

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Helped me apply the word of God.

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More than I ever have.

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And it was neat to see.

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How lasting that was I'm excited

to hear more about how this has

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developed and also just what you've

gleaned, even as you continue.

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And to study the word of

God definitely changes us.

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It changes our hearts and minds,

our attitudes and everything

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about us from the inside out.

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And really how we live.

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So we want to be in the word.

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And if this has been your desire to get

in the word more, and you've thought,

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I just don't know how to go about it.

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I'm going to show you the

process that I went through.

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Over the last 40 some years and have

come up with the curriculum now that we

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are putting out called get the word out.

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So initially my husband and I were

in discipleship, so I've incorporated

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a lot of discipleship tools to help

men and women get in the word and.

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And really starting out with the

daily devotional time or quiet time.

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And my quad time.

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Wasn't always first thing in

the morning as a young mom.

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And how I started this, which

I had no idea, whatever.

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Turn into this was when I

was pregnant with my second.

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And my first was two years old.

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We lived in rural Ohio and we had one

car, which my husband took to work.

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And so I was home in a sort of

country apartment with my two year

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old and pregnant with my second.

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And when I am pregnant, I am so sick.

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I, Stephanie, you are too.

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I could relate.

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Yes.

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We can relate and maybe some of you can

relate just feeling nauseous all the

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time, not just the first couple of weeks

or months, but the whole way through.

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So I thought I'm going to use this

time now that I'm out of college

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and my husband and I had just moved

to Ohio to really spend that year.

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In the word and I was going to,

but how it turned out was I didn't

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get up early in the morning to

do it because no, I felt lousy.

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I would go and read the Bible.

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When my daughter went down

for her after lunch nap.

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And I would just I needed to rest

myself, but I would lay on the couch,

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usually not even sitting up and I

would read my Bible and I had a plan

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to read through the entire Bible.

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That year?

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Well, before that year was

up, obviously I had that baby.

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So I had a newborn and a two year old,

almost three by then, and we moved to

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Chicago, but we still just had one car.

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In that apartment in a completely

different setting Chicago is so

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much different than rural Ohio.

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I was determined to still finish

reading through the Bible that year.

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And I did.

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And.

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The word is life-changing.

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So I felt so invigorated.

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In it, especially as a young mom and I

thought this is where I'm going to draw.

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My strength from two with

these two little ones.

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And I decided that next year I

would read through it again and

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I did read through it again.

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And I feel like if I could do it

in that busy time of life, I should

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be able to do it pretty much.

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Any year of my life, , , and in fact,

years later, I was in a books book

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club and we read eight books a year

and I tallied up the number of pages

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that we read in book club that year.

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And it was like 3,400 and I realized,

well, the Bible is not that long.

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So if I can read eight miscellaneous

books, I certainly ought to be

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able to read through the Bible.

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In a year.

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And sometimes, we can.

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Can I have a different schedule.

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Maybe we read through

the Bible in two years.

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Maybe we read through it in

three years and we've developed

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that into our program also.

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But the first year that I read

it through, all I did was read it

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straight through and really loved

it, but didn't really understand.

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It didn't really understand

how the pieces fit together.

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It would be later that I would learn

that the Bible is a progressive

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revelation of who God is.

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So I needed to understand the old and in

order to understand the new in order to

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be able to understand the old covenant

and then the new progressive revelation

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of Jesus Christ through all of scripture.

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It's fascinating.

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It really is.

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But after a couple of years, I decided

well, I've read through it now and

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now, instead of doing this plan.

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Where I'm reading every day.

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I'll just read it when I can.

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And that year I absolutely floundered.

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I didn't hardly read any of it.

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I realized.

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That even though they say it

takes 21 days to make a habit.

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It takes 21 years for me.

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I.

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I cannot.

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I just really need.

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To have a plan because

if I don't have a plan.

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I falter, so we'll get the word out.

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I always have a plan, even if I, had

surgery or something and missed a week.

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I know exactly where to go back to them.

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And like I said, you're developing

your own devotional lifestyle.

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Nobody's standing over

you checking your work.

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Nobody's standing over you

saying, did you do this?

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Did you do that?

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The whole purpose is to have people

loving what they're doing and my

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husband and I, after all these years

still love to do, get the word out.

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We do it a little differently.

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But to go on from there.

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My husband and I, we would have we would

read at different times of the day.

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So at first I would read when

my kids would go with down

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for their afternoon naps.

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And then later on, it turned out

when my kids were older, that he

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and I would read in the evening

together about seven o'clock.

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After dinner.

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But after dinner, I don't know

about you, but I get this sort

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of, I am can hardly stay awake.

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I CA if I sit down.

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I don't know if I can get back up.

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But we did, we would read a chapter

and then we silently to ourselves.

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And then we would discuss it.

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And what would be the key verse

that you picked out of this?

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And so we did that for awhile and a lot of

evolution over the last 40 years to bring

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it to the point that it is right now.

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Another thing that we did was we

would discuss themes and every couple

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of years I would switch Bibles.

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So I might read the new king

James for a couple of years.

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And then the next year, a couple of

years I might read the NASBE or the ESV.

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Just again, a little variation.

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Sure.

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And that's helpful sometimes,

The first thing we started out

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was with our colored pencils.

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And I have 14 colors.

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I didn't initially.

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But I do now.

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And I would always have a little key

on the inside of my Bible of my color.

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And I'll get back to that

in a little bit and explain.

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What all the colors mean, but

just so you have an idea when

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I'm speaking of the colors.

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We would color code.

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Our Bibles with these little pencils.

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Now this pencil is my dark green,

which is God and his attributes.

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I would, sometimes this is a darker one.

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I would write on my pencils.

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I have so many sets of these pencils.

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Then I probably haven't written

on this latest one, but I have

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only, you can hardly see it.

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It's so faded out from my

hand, rubbing on there.

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But after a while you just know what

the colors are and you have to keep

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your colors in your own little thing.

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That's not for anybody.

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Else's use my husband

and I each have our own.

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And you don't have to color code every

verse, but as you're reading and you find

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a great verse on the Providence of God.

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You might want to underline it in green

or God, the creator, all the things.

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And as you've done that for a year

and you see all those green marks,

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God's sovereignty and his Providence

in there, which is really remarkable.

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So I started to do that.

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I would say that whether you're

a distracted mom and you have

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so many things, On your mind.

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And sometimes you sit down

to do a quiet time and.

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You're like, Ooh, I see a little dust

under the Armat instead of becoming

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distracted by those thoughts, I've

found that the color coding has been

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the most helpful focusing tool of

studying the Bible that I've ever had.

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It just.

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Track of.

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Sometimes people will say,

oh, I read a whole paragraph.

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And I didn't know what I read.

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We don't have that when.

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Color coding because you're

processing so deeply.

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And every time I underlined

something with dark green, I'm

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thinking about what is this saying

about the character of God and.

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Many times it'll be three colors

of verse, but I have found

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it's just spent so helpful to.

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Keep me fully focused and

attentive with the word of God.

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Yes, it's interesting.

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And sometimes because you have

your visual memory, your auditory

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memory, your tactile memory.

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That is true.

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It helps you remember more.

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And even if you read it out loud

to yourself, which I do sometimes

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I hear my husband singing when he

does says, or I hear even if I'm in

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another room, him praying, but it's

I hear it and I hear that sound.

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Every morning.

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I did also want to add, I

had a roommate in college.

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She was getting her nursing degree

and she was just very intelligent.

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And as she is learning all of

these difficult terms, she taught

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me that research shows that

instead of highlighting versus

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it's actually better to underlie.

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And your brain remembers them better

because when you highlight, it's

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like you're crossing off the words,

but when you underline it, you're

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emphasizing, it's a subconscious thing.

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But she said, that's what the research

shows so interesting because I

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always said to my husband, you're

crossing out your entire body.

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But Are our granddaughter who is

now 22, just graduated from college.

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And her first sentence was.

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Grandpa color Bible.

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So I love that.

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Memory.

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Of her.

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So all of these colors do mean something.

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And I'll get to that a little bit

again when we talk about themes,

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but as your color, coding your

Bible, you do see these themes.

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It's not just, I do love colors.

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I really love colors.

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That's why I have 14.

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But they all do really mean something.

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And some people say, do I really

need to have all 14 colors?

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You really do.

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Because you might say I, I'm

not going to color anything.

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Having to do with money, but.

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All of a sudden you come across

diverse, after you've been reading

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for months and you're like, I

really want to highlight that.

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What color should I use?

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Well, you don't have to think about it.

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It's there and it's all

planned out for you.

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Otherwise, if you're reading, let's say.

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Proverbs.

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You'll see a lot of the really dark

pink, and orange in orange is the

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fear of man and sin and consequences

disobedience and the dark pink.

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This is the righteousness of man

and the fear of God making right

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choices, the blessings of obedience.

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So you color code Proverbs, and

you're going to see so much of these

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two colors in there, the foolish

choices and the wise choices.

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And it's neat to see

how that brings us back.

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Oh, that reminds me of Deuteronomy.

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And when I was talking about the

blessings of righteousness and then

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the curses for disobedience and.

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You start to see these

themes in scripture.

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Yes.

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Oh, God, I see it.

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I see that your commands come with

a blessing and then the overflows

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as you're teaching your kids, right.

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Absolutely.

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In fact, the progress of revelation

of scripture, Proverbs is the

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practical application of Deuteronomy.

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So it says in there repeatedly.

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Teach these things to your sons.

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advice that Solomon was giving his sons.

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So it's not just color coding,

it's seeing the themes.

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And one of the other ones

that I noticed was the colors.

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In acts when you color.

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The.

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The giving of the gospel doing

ministry, sharing the gospel.

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And then in, and you have this.

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Medium blue color.

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And then right after that comes the

brown color, which is persecution.

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And you see how every time

they shared the gospel.

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They were persecuted.

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But then immediately you get this

green color again, the sovereignty

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of God, where God shows up and

adds to their numbers or something.

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But the Lord is with them even

through all of these things.

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So you realize that for your own

ministry, I'm going to put myself out

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there, I'm going to share the gospel.

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I'm going to minister to people

and expect that persecution will

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come, but know that God is with you.

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So that's the thing that comes through

with the themes that I really love.

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And that is true with many of the books.

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Also, Isaiah, Isaiah.

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And you see so much of the dark

purple and the green, the sovereignty

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of God, the majesty of bad.

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And the promises of God.

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So we'll go through those

again a little bit more.

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And we do want to recommend a soft tipped.

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Colored pencil.

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Prisma color is my favorite.

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And I think yours as well.

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Right.

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they're so great.

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I actually found a set at Walmart

for a great deal, but then I

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was able to just supplement by

buying two more from hobby lobby.

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And you'll find as if Betsy said

that, that dark pink, the green,

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the orange eye, you'll replace.

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Some of these.

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A couple of times, but it's so nice

to be able to go to a store like

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hobby lobby and buy them individually.

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Recently I decided a theme for this year.

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I was going to go through

scripture and I was like, I'm

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going to go buy a color that.

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And Betsy has included in this.

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And it was hard for me to find a color

that would stand out from the forties.

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The.

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Yeah.

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I picked kind of an Aqua I'm like, but

it had to be different enough from the

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blues and different from the greens.

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And and what is your Aqua color?

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I'm.

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Trying to focus on the voice and

when God speaks and what he says

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about himself, but then also what,

when we're called to speak and what

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is a righteous purpose for our words.

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I feel that as we're working on the

podcast, I just want to make sure

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that the words that I'm saying.

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Our words are accurately reflecting the

character of God and whether I'm called

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to bless, or if I'm called to maybe.

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Speak about something just that

I do it in a righteous way.

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Yeah.

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And that's so interesting because

like I said, nobody's going to check

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your work, but if you do start,

you want to do these 14 colors.

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'cause the first year I did

it, my friend Nancy, she said,

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well, I used different colors.

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Is that okay?

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And then she never forgave me.

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I don't think.

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Because it because we worked

together for 24 years and it

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just made things difficult.

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So I would say if you're going to do

this with somebody, make sure that

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you're using the same colors, certainly

add another color, I am all for colors.

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But as you were even saying that

in my mind, I naturally filter

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through how I would color that.

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You will get very used to

this, but when you're reading.

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You don't have to color

something every day.

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You can just color something.

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As you see it and you have the

rest of your life to do this.

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So don't worry about all my goodness.

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What color should that

verse be and that verse?

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And by the way, do you know that they

even have Bibles already pre colored?

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Oh, wow.

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Do not buy them.

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I'm sorry.

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But you may, if you like, but,

it's gotta be our own work.

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'cause that's the thing that really makes

it live within us, that we choose the

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color and we even struggle a little bit

about thinking, should it be this color?

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And like you said,

sometimes I can't decide.

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And I color them in two colors, but

that's just your own devotion before

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the Lord and working it out in it.

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Like we say, nobody's going

to be checking your answers.

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It's really fun though,

to do this with the group.

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And then you can say, what

color did you color this?

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And just to have the discussion.

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Yes.

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And you decide on your own.

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Am I.

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Do I go phrase by phrase, am I

looking at the verse as a whole?

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And when you get into the letters

and are seeing the Trinity and that

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repetition when Peter will say this

from the spirit and this from the

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father, this from Jesus and you just

see it working together so beautifully.

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Doing those colors together.

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It's so beautiful to see

the Trinity together.

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And honestly, I do, I mark them

in the dark green, the dark

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blue and the red representing.

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The holy spirit, the father

and the son, because those are

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special keys in your Bible.

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And then what you would want to

do with that is you would want

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to take a piece of paper and

make that theme, say the Trinity.

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And then mark.

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As you're reading through mark

those verses on that separate theme,

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some times at Christmas time.

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I look at my husband's pencils and

I see, yeah, you need a new orange,

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you need a new red and I'll just

go out and get those separate ones.

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Another thing that we do, I

take a little Sharpie and I

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just write the description.

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From this marker on it.

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So this would say Jesus, the gospel

and salvation in this red color.

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And I would write it on there.

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I thought about putting little

sticker labels on there, but you'd

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have to put it very far back.

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Because you don't want that to

get into your pencil sharper.

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Get a really nice pencil sharpener too,

because I'm constantly sharpening them.

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Okay, mama.

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We hope that convinced you.

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To dig into the word and even to try

to employ this color coding system.

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We'll be back soon with other

tips and resources to try to

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equip you to see the heart of God.

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Through his word.

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Steph: We know you're busy, Mama,

so we are truly grateful you joined

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us for this episode of Again.

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If you're looking for more information

about building your home on the

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foundation of Jesus Christ, head to www.

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EntrustedMinistries.

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com to learn more about our study for

moms, Entrusted with a Child's Heart.

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This scripture saturated study

has blessed families around the

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world, and we want it for you, too.

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Before you go, I want to pray

this benediction over you

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from 2 Thessalonians 1, 11 12.

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We're rooting for you.

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To this end, we always pray for you,

that our God may make you worthy of His

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calling, and may fulfill every resolve

for good and every work of faith by

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His power, so that the name of our Lord

Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in

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Him, according to the grace of our God.

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And the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Until we meet again.

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Biblical Motherhood Untangled
So much of what we do as mothers is on repeat. Join us to redeem this repetition and untangle from the confusion and overwhelm of parenting. We'll follow the Agains in the Bible to focus on the things that matter most. Let's look up together to embrace a motherhood full of freedom and joy! This podcast is sponsored by Entrusted Ministries.

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Stephanie Hickox

Stephanie has always delighted in God’s Word and in sharing it with others. Whether it is equipping mothers and leaders through Entrusted with a Child’s Heart, inspiring students when teaching at homeschool co-ops or children’s ministry, or homeschooling her own children, Stephanie’s life mission is to encourage others to follow faithfully and joyfully after Jesus—especially if they hold her favorite job title: mom.

Betsy Corning wrote Entrusted with a Child’s Heart in 1999 in response to the needs she saw in families as she and David counseled young parents just a few years behind them. Entrusted has been taught in hundreds of churches nationwide, been translated into several foreign languages, and has made its way around the world. More recently, Betsy received her Masters in Biblical Studies from The Master’s University and is developing a new Bible Study program called Get the Word Out. Her passion for God’s Word, discipleship, and teaching biblical principles as they apply to family life has remained strong to this day. One of the greatest blessings in Betsy’s life are her three grown children, their spouses, and ten grandchildren that keep her constantly in touch with every age and stage.

Jen Freckman Is an incredible wealth of wisdom. She will tell you a natural remedy for just about anything! She is also a voracious reader and she is just overflowing with quotes and guidance that she's encountered through reading and being faithful. She delights in her children and is a devoted mother. She is also an amazingly creative problem solver! Her solutions to manage her home and guide her children are inspiring.

Emily Deyo is such a treasure. She is an incredible encourager and servant-hearted woman. When she has the mic in front of her, so much value comes out! She is a wordsmith and her heart consistently beats for how she can encourage and serve others. She is a truly loving and attentive mother.

Join Betsy, Emily, Jen, and Stephanie as they share the wisdom only Scripture and on-the-job training can provide to help untangle the joyful calling of motherhood.