FROM TODAY’S RECAP: - 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Genesis 1 - Genesis 37 - Article: What Does It Mean That Christians are Adopted by God? - Article: Are We All God's Children? Scriptures regarding GOD’S FAMILY: - Romans 8:14-17 - Romans 8:23 - Galatians 4:5 - Romans 9:4 - Isaiah 56:5 - Matthew 12:46-50 - John 8:44 - 1 John 3:1 Note: We provide links to specific resources; this is not an endorsement of the entire website, author, organization, etc. Their views may not represent our own. SHOW NOTES: - Follow The Bible Recap: Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | YouTube - Follow Tara-Leigh Cobble: Instagram - Read/listen on the Bible App or Dwell App - Learn more at our Start Page - Become a RECAPtain - Shop the TBR Store - Credits PARTNER MINISTRIES: D-Group International Israelux The God Shot TLC Writing & Speaking DISCLAIMER: The Bible Recap, Tara-Leigh Cobble, and affiliates are not a church, pastor, spiritual authority, or counseling service. Listeners and viewers consume this content on a voluntary basis and assume all responsibility for the resulting consequences and impact.
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Hey, Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Welcome to January's bonus episode. We're going to try to do an episode like this at the end of each month, offering some reflections and corrections, some R's and some C's. Let's start with the R's, looking back at Genesis, Job, and the first few chapters of Exodus we've covered so far.
The Bible is one unified story. It's the story of a family, and it all starts in Genesis. God the Father is literally known best to us by being a father. He defined love by sending his son to die on a cross, and he makes his paternal design apparent by choosing a family through which he would bring change to the world.
Genesis and Job and Exodus demonstrate the sovereignty and the goodness of the Lord. This is the way he writes our stories too. 2 Corinthians 5.17 tells us he speaks a new identity over us, just like he did with Abraham and Sarah and Jacob Israel. These books have set up so many amazing things for us.
A biblical view of life and marriage, God's good design for work, what humility looks like, the underappreciated beauty of just sitting in the struggle with someone instead of trying to play God and solve it for them. Plus a laundry list of how to ruin your family dynamic if you're interested in that.
Some of you may have never tried to read through the Bible before, or maybe you've tried and failed, but you've made it so far. I'm so proud of you. You are doing something eternal, which means it's definitely worth 15 to 20 minutes of your morning. But that also means the enemy of your soul is going to wage war against it. So keep at it.
Don't let the enemy or the flesh deter you from the mission we're on together. Pray for an increased desire to keep reading the Bible with us. Pray against distraction and ask God for help. As we keep reading, I bet God's intricacies and specificity will surprise you. I know it surprised me and caused me to wonder a lot over the last 10 years.
The story he's written about himself, about his family, about his faithfulness, it's just the beginning. I can't wait for us to see it unfolding even more. Now let's tackle a few of the things I wish I'd done differently. The C's. I'm so grateful for your grace when I make errors or when I'm confusing in my delivery.
It's hard to know all the ways things will be heard or interpreted until it reaches a mass audience. But when it's just me in my dining room recording these episodes at three in the morning, I'm bound to miss a few things or misspeak here and there. I make every effort to avoid that, but it's bound to happen and I always hate it when it does.
So we've created this section of this month's bonus podcast to address a few of January's do-overs. As of today's date, which is January 30th, these are the applicable corrections. Any mistakes I make tomorrow or new reflections I happen to have between now and then will appear in February's bonus Reflections and Corrections episode.
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