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    How to Study the Bible – Bible Study Made Simple

    As Christians, we want to experience God through the Bible… we really do!

    But our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn’t seem to help us experience God in a real way. What should feel dynamic and important and alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant. But it doesn’t have to feel this way.

    In this bible study podcast, pastor and Bible teacher Nicole Unice brings life back to reading the Bible by walking listeners through her Alive Method of Bible study, helping us personally encounter God through His Word by giving us a practical, clear road map for understanding, interpreting and applying Scripture to our lives. 

    Topics covered in this podcast:

    💡 Three Common Obstacles to Understanding the Bible
    💡The Basics of Bible Study (Observation, Interpretation) and How to Apple the Bible to Your Life
    💡Deep Dive into Bible Studies by Books of the Bible (We’ve covered Ecclesiastes, Romans, Matthew, and more!)
    💡 Topical Bible study lessons on Joy, Contentment, Prayer and more
    💡 Spiritual Rhythms: Creating New Rhythms in Your Life
    💡 4 Principles You Need to Interpret Difficult Scripture

    To find more from Nicole, visit https://nicoleunice.com/.

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    Jesus Has Authority Over All (A Bible Study on Colossians 2:1-5) Nov 07, 2022
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    I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. 2 My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. 5 For though I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit and delight to see how disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    - Paul’s goal: that the church would be encouraged in heart and united in love--that’s the vehicle for how we know Christ.
    - All wisdom is in Christ
    - Deception is real!
    WHAT’S THE BACKSTORY?
    - Paul is writing to a church he helped to start. Usually, these Pauline letters are a response to a conflict or question in the church.
    - Use your cross-references to build your own bible study. For example, in this chapter, our cross reference points us to 1 Peter, where we see there are things within the church that are deceptive: 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    - To stand firm and discern wisely, I need to be finding my wisdom in Christ by remaining in him.
    - John 15:4: Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    Stop/Start/Continue -
    - What do I need to stop? Start? What do I need to continue in order to be walking in the way of Jesus?
    WANT MORE?
    Check out Nicole’s book Help! My Bible Is Alive: 30 Days of Learning to Love and Understand God’s Word - https://www.amazon.com/Help-My-Bible-Alive-Understand/dp/1641580216
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    Jesus Is Enough for All (A Bible Study on Colossians 1:15-20) Oct 31, 2022
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    Last week, we covered the big idea of Colossians, be sure to check that out if you haven’t:
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    WHAT DOES IT SAY:
    15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
    Look for repetition – in this section of scripture, the word “All”:
    - Over all creation
    - All things were created
    - All things were created
    - Before all things
    - All things hold together
    WHAT’S THE BACKSTORY:
    He existed before his earthly life (before all things) – he is supreme
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    v 18 - “so that” – cues us in to the reason Paul is explaining this to the Colossians
    v 19-20 - Jesus is God, and He is a reconciling agent (bringing back into proper order)
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    There is nothing in life that is untouched by Christ--either now or later. Either you choose to have Christ’s reconciling work bring you to communion with the Father, or ultimately that will happen later. I choose to be friends with God now.
    Revelation 21
    6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
    Be thirsty for God.
    WANT MORE?
    Check out Nicole’s book Help! My Bible Is Alive: 30 Days of Learning to Love and Understand God’s Word - https://www.amazon.com/Help-My-Bible-Alive-Understand/dp/1641580216
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    NEW SERIES! A Vision for All (A Bible Study on Colossians 1:3-7) Oct 24, 2022
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    Our new series starts today!! Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be in the book of Colossians.
    FOLLOW NICOLE FOR THE FREE COLOSSIANS READING PLAN!
    Starting 10/31 we will have a reading plan as we cover the book of Colossians. You can receive that by following me in one of a few places:
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    INTRO TO COLOSSIANS:
    Colossians is an early letter in Christian history, about 30 years after Christ’s death and resurrection, written by Paul (with help from Timothy).
    Why are the New Testament letters usually written? Because conflict in the church is happening, and Paul (the planter of churches) is writing to address those issues help them through those conflicts.
    THEME OF COLOSSIANS:
    The overarching theme of this book is how Christ is in all things, and the ramifications of that for us.
    Most commentators agree that perhaps someone in the church was teaching different rituals and superstitions for a “different level” of faith, a “Jesus plus ‘this ritual’” – and Paul is returning the church to this true doctrine, that Jesus is ALL. There is nothing else we must add to our faith. Jesus is ALL.
    LET’S READ TOGETHER:
    Colossians 1:3-7 -
    3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace.
    WANT MORE?
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    Jacob: Wrestling for the Truth (A Bible Study on Genesis 32:22-32) Oct 17, 2022
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    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    Jacob Wrestles with God
    22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
    27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”
    “Jacob,” he answered.
    28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
    29 Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.”
    But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.
    30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
    31 The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.
    WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY?
    It’s really important in the Old Testament to zoom out and figure out where the story you are reading is placed within the larger story surrounding it. If we cut Genesis into fractions, we’ll miss out on its meaning.
    Let’s first look back at Jacob’s life -
    Jacob is a twin, who struggled inside his mother’s womb. His life is marked by struggle, an ongoing theme throughout his life. He steals his brother’s blessing and birthright, and then leaves home.
    Jacob prays to God in Genesis 32:9-12. He is fearful and trying to control the situation he finds himself in (about to meet Esau).
    After the dream – Esau is a picture of grace. He runs to Jacob, kissing him.
    During the dream encounter – struggling with his identity. He is given a new name, “Israel” – he struggles with God. And he doesn’t let go of this person he is encountering – he wants relationship! He is finally responding to God. He takes the journey we all take--moving from fearful to free, from wrestling with God and man, to accepting what He gives us.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    AW Tozer – “God formed us for himself.” Anytime we are out of relationship with God, we will struggle. Until we find ourselves in him, named by God and identified with him, we will struggle in our souls.
    Genesis 47 – he bows in worship at the end of his life. He is in relationship with God, and lived out of the identity God gave him. He still struggled, but not in the way he had before he wrestled with God.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    Deep soul struggle is addressed through Christ. He makes a way for us to cease striving and have relationship with God.
    But now, this is what the Lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. - Isaiah 43:1
    Do you know where you belong? Do you know you have an identity? Do you feel at home in my soul? Is God dwelling in my heart? If yes, your only response is praise! Your only response is worship and gratitude.
    If not, invite God into your life in this real and meaningful way.
    WANT MORE?
    Check out Nicole’s book Help! My Bible Is Alive: 30 Days of Learning to Love and Understand God’s Word - https://www.amazon.com/Help-My-Bible-Alive-Understand/dp/1641580216
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    Jacob: God Is Committed to Dwelling with Us (A Bible Study on Genesis 28:10-22) Oct 10, 2022
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    We are part of a very big story. Every single one of us who calls on Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior is a living stone. Every single one of us has a precious and important part to play in creating this spiritual house, this place where God dwells. I am living my life out as a piece of the dwelling place of God! I take my little piece everywhere I go.
    Everywhere you go, you bring a dwelling place of God with you.
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    Jacob’s Dream at Bethel - Genesis 28:10-22:
    10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it[a] stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[b] 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
    16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” 17 He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
    18 Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. 19 He called that place Bethel,[c] though the city used to be called Luz.
    20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord[d] will be my God 22 and[e] this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
    Questions you might ask the text:
    1. What does the dream mean?
    2. Jacob receives the blessing?
    3. Do the stones matter?
    4. Call the place Bethel?
    Observations:
    1. Standard approach: humans quake with fear when God shows up
    2. Same blessing is again repeated--maybe we also need to hear things a lot to believe them, especially when they take faith.
    3. Gen 28:13-15: Sounds like a covenant
    4. Gen 28: 20-21: IF God is with me… Jacob is not totally sold?
    5. Gen 28:22: Promised sanctuary, the stone is the consecration…
    WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY?
    1. Jacob’s childhood and adolescence - he has swindled his brother out of this birthright AND blessing
    2. His father Isaac sends him away and confers God’s blessing on him
    3. God then confirms the blessing through the dream.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    1. God is committed to making the earth his dwelling place.
    2. This story is linked to the bigger story of lineage in Genesis, which is linked to the BIGGER story of a coming king, which is the story of Jesus and the story of you and me.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    1. God is committed to dwelling with us.
    2. Are you committed to dwelling with him?
    3. Jacob’s stone is a signpost pointing us toward the promised sanctuary in 1 Peter 2:4-6:
    4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house[a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture...

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    Do You Believe the Lord Will Bring You into a Spacious Place? (A Bible Study on Genesis 26:22-26) Oct 03, 2022
    Show notes

    God calls himself the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, over and over in Scripture, in both the Old and New Testaments. God is establishing his covenant through these families; God’s chosen people is created – these families become the Israelites. And we, through Christ, are the new Israel as believers. As Galatians 3:18 tells us, “we are all one through Christ Jesus.”
    *WHAT DOES IT SAY?*
    Genesis 26:22-25
    He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the Lord has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”
    23 From there he went up to Beersheba. 24 That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”
    25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.
    -- There is so much humanness playing out in these verses - arguments, playing favorites, lying! Humanity makes mistakes, even God’s chosen people. Isaac lied about his wife just like Abraham did.
    -- Just because you are struggling or in conflict, doesn’t mean you are outside of God’s favor.
    *WHAT’S THE BACKSTORY?*
    -- There is a famine in the land, but God tells Isaac to stay in the land and promises blessing.
    -- Both Abraham and Isaac fall prey to being scared about their wives’ beauty and lies about them – a pattern of lying for self-protection (and not trusting God).
    -- God’s chosen people are not perfect. Isaac and Rebekah, and their children, lie and manipulate. Human family disfunction is playing out.
    *WHAT DOES IT MEAN?*
    -- “The Lord has given us room.” This phrase points to the idea of “a spacious place” told to us in scripture, such as in Psalm 118:5. “When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place.” We are most likely to sin any time we get into a scarcity mindset – there’s not going to be enough for us, that God is not actually going to provide, that God is not trustworthy to make sure we’re going to be okay. We see this in Abraham and Isaac’s lives.
    -- A world of anxiety exists when we believe we must protect ourselves and our stuff. When we do this, we become small people. OR – we can have a centered place in us, a spacious place – where we trust what God is doing and will do for us. Do you believe God will bring you into a spacious place?
    *WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?*
    -- Does your family still struggle with generational sin? You’re not alone. These patterns of living are as old as the stories in the Bible. God still faithfully shows up and works in the people who trust him – not the people who are necessarily righteous. We have to deal with pain caused by other people’s sin, and our own.
    -- God is faithful even when we mess up. 1 John 3:16 – we can keep coming back to God, every day, to experience God’s spacious place for us.
    -- The priority is your availability. Are you available to God? Do you put God’s plans in front of your own? “God, what you want is more important than what I want. What you want leads to spacious places, so I’m going to want what you want.”
    A simple prayer for today –
    “God make me aware of your presence, make me available for your interruptions. Make me purposeful on my path and restful in the spacious place of your grace. Amen.”
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    Isaac: Saved by Grace (A Bible Study on Genesis 22:11-14) Sep 26, 2022
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    Why does it matter that we study these Old Testament stories? When we’re able to zoom way out and see what God has been stepping in to help the generations before us, we’re able to place our own sufferings and struggles in context. The God of our Fathers is our God, too. The covenants God has made with our forefathers are for us, too.
    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
    “Here I am,” he replied.
    12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
    13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” - Genesis 22:11-14
    God appeared to Abraham and told him to sacrifice Isaac. We have to remember; this is a different time and day. Abraham trusts God and obeys. As he moves toward the action of sacrifice, God intervenes. God calls out personally to Abraham, and he provides an alternative. He doesn’t just cancel the plan, he provides a substitute sacrifice.
    WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY?
    If you’ve been reading Genesis, you know a few weeks ago that God made a covenant with Abraham through his descendants, promising him that he will in fact have children. Sarah does in fact get pregnant even though she’s ninety years old.
    Then the bizarre happens: God tells Abraham to sacrifice this son, who is the fulfillment of the covenant. What is going on here?
    This is another chapter in a long life with a faithful God. Many commentators believe that Abraham might have thought even if he killed Isaac, God could bring him back to life.
    God tests us to show us what’s already there. He tests us to show us the strength of our faith that is already present. When we go through testing, we’re getting more and more anchored in our identity in God, who he is. Something eternal is growing and developing in us.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    The Lord Will Provide--beginning of a pattern of substitutionary atonement. God is faithful to his promises. We are seeing the start of God’s people, the Israelites.
    Romans 3:24-25:
    24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.
    Redemption means something is bought back, recovered, or handled. God redeems us through Christ. Abraham was required to take his beloved, one and only son to sacrificed, but God stayed his hand, and provided a sacrifice instead.
    But when God sent his one and only son to the mountain to be sacrificed, he did not stay his hand. He allowed Christ to be sacrificed for our sins, once and for all.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    1. Even when all hope seems lost, God will still provide.
    2. Sometimes going backward in our story can give us the strength to face what’s ahead
    3. Our faith in Christ’s substitution is built on generations upon generations of God showing his faithfulness to us as his people.
    WANT MORE?
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    Understanding the Abrahamic Covenant (A Bible Study on Genesis 15:1-6) Sep 19, 2022
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    This episode is the second in a series we are calling God of Our Fathers. Find all of our episodes here: https://www.lifeaudio.com/how-to-study-the-bible/
    1. WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    Notice how God is personal and relational. “After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
    2. WHAT IS THE BACKSTORY?
    Abram is childless but knows God’s promise to make a nation from his.
    In Genesis 14, he’s just been tempted to gain power by making a treaty with another king and resists that temptation. His faithfulness has been tested.
    Covenant ceremony: You cut the animal and walk between in as a sign. “Let me be like these dead animals if I don’t keep my promise.”
    3. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    Covenant is an incredibly important part of our faith.
    Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. – This is incredibly important! It is his faith, not his work, that God counts his righteousness.
    Faith is belief in action.
    This idea carries us into our relationship with a Christ, who made a new covenant--he cut a new deal, or more importantly, a “fulfilled” deal, Hebrews 7:22 “Jesus is the guarantor of a better covenant…”
    No longer under the law as a sign of our citizenship and acceptance as God’s people--we are under the covenant, an inward reality.
    Old Covenant required a series of laws and birthright to be God’s chosen people.
    Old Covenant required sacrifices made over and over.
    Old Covenant required a priest to mediate between the people and God, not direct access.
    New Covenant calls all people by faith.
    New Covenant means Christ is the ultimate sacrifice made for all our sins.
    New Covenant means Jesus is our great high priest, mediating on our behalf so we have access, full communion with God through him.
    4. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    Because of our acceptance, our worth comes from what’s been done for us, not what we do for God.
    Our response, our obedience to God comes from love and worship, not obligation and duty
    This is what love looks like.
    WANT MORE?
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    We’re Back! God of Our Fathers: Abraham (A Bible Study on Genesis 12:1-3) Sep 12, 2022
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    WHAT DOES IT SAY?
    1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
    We see “blessed” 5 times in the text – the central message of this passage is blessing!
    WHAT’S THE BACKSTORY?
    Genesis 3-11: A dumpster fire of what happens when sin separates people from God
    Genesis 11: Terah (Abram’s dad) is going to Canaan, but settles in Haran. Abram is going to be told to go to the place his father never made it to.
    “I will bless you so you will be a blessing” – this is the purpose of blessings, to bless others.
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
    Questions to consider –
    What does it mean to be a representative?
    What does it mean to bless?
    What does it mean that Abram is a blessing?
    What does it look like to move blessing on?
    WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME?
    God always has a plan. He pursues blessing for his people despite our failings.
    Abraham’s part to play was obedience.
    Everything in your life is part of a bigger plan. God is constantly working his plan out in the world, and you a part of that plan.
    WANT MORE?
    Check out Nicole’s book Help! My Bible Is Alive: 30 Days of Learning to Love and Understand God’s Word - https://www.amazon.com/Help-My-Bible-Alive-Understand/dp/1641580216
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    Finding Strength in God's Joy (Re-Air) Jun 27, 2022
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    Help, My Bible Is Alive!: https://www.amazon.com/Help-My-Bible-Alive-Understand/dp/1641580216
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