The Bible Recap

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. If you're doing our New Testament plan, today we finished our 7th and 8th books. If you're doing the whole Bible, we finished our 46th and 47th books.

If you have time, go back and slow down and look for all the things God is doing here.

It takes about 40 hours to read from cover to cover. Why don't you just do it as fast as you can so that you have the whole Scriptures inside your brain.

The scriptures themselves, it's a book of books. It's a library in and to itself. And for me, reading at that clip, I mean, it was kind of like mental CrossFit to some degree.

Honestly, the biggest benefit to me in that first run all the way through was so many of my doubts completely perished in my first reading through the Bible.

Reading through the whole Bible keeps you from going to unnecessary extremes. The Bible is a book full of some pretty amazing paradoxes because it is not a human invention; it is the very word of God.

The Bible is its own best commentary. It answers most of its own questions.

I used the ESV translation, and I walked you through my reasons for choosing that particular translation.

If you don't have any idea which translation you want to read, you can use the Bible app to compare and contrast readability. Then, once you've decided on a translation, I strongly encourage you to get a print Bible. It's easy to forget the Bible exists if you don't see it.

He said, read it. Read the whole thing. Let your eyes fall on every word. Don't skip anything, not even the genealogies or the laws.

I set out to read it for the first time all the way through. And I'll be honest, it was hard.

On that second trip through his word, when I was looking for him, I found him. And I fell in love with him. I began to see not just what he was doing, but why he was doing it, what his heart was behind it.

Because as someone who has felt alienated by it and stuck in it, as someone who has felt frustrated and confused and who really wanted to disengage because I was starting to not like God, hang in there. Because the good stuff is on the other side of that struggle.

If you've been trying to piece this thing together, if you've wanted this or even just wanted to want it, if you feel the desire on some level but don't know if you have the tools, I'm here to help you with that, to walk through this with you, to hand you those tools along the way.

Every day that you open up your Bible and put your eyes on who God says He is, you're displaying the kind of wisdom this verse calls us to.

Because remember, this book reminds us over and over again about humility and about holding our tongues.

Hey Bible readers! I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap.

We recently finished our 12th book of the Bible, and we're currently working our way through three others.

If you're looking for a book to tell you how great and worthy and deserving you are, the Bible is not that book.

The Bible refuses to let us wear rosecoloured glasses when we look at any of the people we've grown up admiring.

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Today we finished our 12th book of the Bible.

We finish today with Psalm 127, one of the Psalms of Ascent. And this is one of the two that were written by Solomon.

Thanks to you, so many people who never would have read through the Bible have joined us and are loving it.

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap.

but one thing I love about the Bible is that it doesn't let Chronicles off the hook.

If you read a story in 2 Samuel one day and then 1 Chronicles the next day, sometimes there will be new details that jump off the page at you that weren't in the other account.

We first read about Nimrod in Genesis 10, which mentions that he was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

We first met Peleg briefly back in Genesis 1025, which was right before the Tower of Babel, the incident where God created multiple language which served to separate the people.

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Today we finished our ninth book of the Bible and we're rapidly closing in on 100 days in the Word.

It takes place during the time of the Judges when all kinds of wickedness is filling the land of Israel. The book opens with a married couple, Elimelech and Naomi, leaving their hometown, Bethlehem of Judah, to escape a famine.

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

If you're in a dark place, this book is probably serving as a comfort to you.

Let this book help you strengthen your patience and compassion muscles.

this book is not an easy read. It isn't exactly a bright and shiny way to start out the new year, but it's real life.

Hey Bible readers, I'm TaraLeigh Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. We continued to read Job's story today.

There are lots of stories in these 66 books of the Bible, but they all work together to tell one big story. That's the metanarrative.

Genesis has historically been regarded as a book of the law. It's not a science book or even a history book, though it does tell us a lot about history. This book is 100% true, but it isn't always 100% literal.

If you struggle with that, I suggest getting a study Bible so you can dig into those things a bit more.

We just finished our 66th book of the Bible and the 27th book of the New Testament, which means you've either finished reading the whole Bible or the whole New Testament.

The Bible is one unified story.

We recently finished our 16th book of the Bible and are currently working our way through two others, so let's get the 30,000foot view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the Bible's overall metanarrative.

The Bible is one unified story.

places like Leviticus and numbers and genealogies.

the prophet in second Chronicles 15. And he said, if you seek him, he will be found by you.

We're so grateful to all of you who have picked up a copy of The Bible Recap book. One of you, our listeners, is the one who thought of this idea just three weeks into when we launched this podcast back in January 2019.

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We are so grateful to all of you who've picked up a copy of The Bible Recap book. It is such a great option for those of you who are visual learners, who like to take notes while you read, or who just want to unplug from the digital world for a bit. The basic contents are the same as the podcast but instead of listening to the recap for eight minutes a day you read the recap for two pages a day.

So if you haven't picked up your copy yet or you want to get one for a friend, you can find The Bible Recap book wherever books are sold including online in brick and mortar stores, even in airports and grocery stores.

Do you have a friend or family member who speaks Spanish? We're excited to share that The Bible Recap is now available in Spanish and we would love to have them join us. You can either search your podcatcher for La Sinopsis de la Biblia or click the link in today's show notes.

Do you have a friend or family member who speaks Spanish? We're excited to share that The Bible Recap is now available in Spanish and we would love to have them join us. You can either search your podcatcher for La Sinopsis de la Biblia or click the link in today's show notes.

It even has wide margins for your notes. The TBR Bible is available in the English Standard Version, and you can choose from four different style options.

We're so grateful to all of you who have picked up a copy of The Bible Recap book.

If you haven't picked up your copy yet, you can find The Bible Recap book wherever books are sold, or get more info at thebiblerecap.com forward slash books.

We're so grateful to all of you who have picked up a copy of The Bible Recap book.

If you haven't picked up your copy yet, you can find The Bible Recap book wherever books are sold, or get more info at thebiblerecap.com forward slash books.

He raised up enemy nations to oppress them. And this is possibly referring to the stories we read in the book of Judges.

We finished our eighth book of the Bible today, and since we're reading an entire book tomorrow, that means we're about to be at nine books total.

Tomorrow we enter the book of Judges. It's a bloody book, but it brings us an important reminder of what happens when people don't follow Yahweh and follow their hearts instead.

Judges is a book full of bloody and wicked stories.

the books of Joshua and Judges were written by different authors, so to them it didn't feel redundant or confusing.

the other wisdom books like Job and Ecclesiastes show us what those exceptions look like. For instance, Proverbs may make it sound like the wise and godly will avoid pain and suffering, but Job proves the exception.

As I was reading through some of the curses, a lot of it reminded me of Job. One of the things we learned there is that you can't always look at someone's struggles and determine the reason for them.

because we covered Job this month, we've now finished two of the longest books of the Bible.

We just finished the book of Joshua, our seventh book, so let's get the 30,000 foot view on where we are in the chronological timeline of the Bible's overall metanarrative.

the books of Joshua and Judges were written by different authors, so to them it didn't feel redundant or confusing.

Joshua tell people to incline their hearts toward God.

Tomorrow, we'll be starting the book of Acts. It's 28 chapters long.

With the exception of John the Baptist, that doesn't seem to happen until the book of Acts in the New Testament.

I'm excited to start Deuteronomy with you tomorrow, but let's wrap up Numbers first.

The book ends on kind of a happy note, knowing that everyone is going to be provided for in God's plan for his people.

Numbers is one of my favorite books of the Bible.

Tomorrow we'll be starting the book of Numbers. It's 36 chapters long.

We'll read about it when we get to the book of Daniel, so stay tuned.

That happens. We'll read about it when we get to the book of Daniel, so stay tuned.

Hey Bible readers! I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble, and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Today we started a new book, and the last book of the law or the Torah, as it's known in the Jewish world. Deuteronomy is the third most frequently quoted book in the New Testament, and it's the second most quoted by Jesus.

I'm excited to start Deuteronomy with you tomorrow, but let's wrap up Numbers first.

We start a new book tomorrow, Deuteronomy, so we've linked to a brief video overview in the show notes that we think will be really helpful for you.

If all this Trinity talk feels confusing to you and you want a helpful tool to learn more, we've linked to a great book in the show notes. It's easy to read and super helpful.

If all this Trinity talk feels confusing to you and you want a helpful tool to learn more, we've linked to a great book in the show notes. It's easy to read and super helpful.

This book, on the other hand, is 66 chapters long. ... Isaiah's prophetic ministry spanned 40 years, so that's a lot of time to say a lot of things.

In one of the ancient clay pots, they discovered the entire book of Isaiah on one long scroll, 21 feet long. And today's Hebrew version of The Book of Isaiah is the very same as that ancient copy, to the very letter.

Tomorrow we'll be reading the book of Ruth.

There are some really good lessons for us in the book of Job for how to comfort someone who has experienced trauma.

If you've never read this story, it does get really dark, just like Noah's, but it does have a happy ending.

He tells them that he is the fulfillment of this chapter. He's the one who will set the captives free and bind up the brokenhearted.

You can read all about it in Luke 4, 18-30.

Hey Bible readers! I'm Tara-Leigh Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. Today we tackle more of Solomon's Proverbs, and Chapter 19 starts out with a lot of wisdom on relationships, including our relationship with God.

So those reminders really help us hold our newfound knowledge in balance with wisdom. Charles Spurgeon said it like this, Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There's no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. This book reminds us over and over again about humility and about holding our tongues.

Tomorrow we'll be reading the book of Jonah, the prophet who lived during this time. His story is only four chapters long.

We also know that David requested them from the priest in 1 Samuel 23, 9, when Saul was coming to kill him.

the other wisdom books like Job and Ecclesiastes show us what those exceptions look like.

Second Samuel 7 is one of the most important chapters in all of Scripture.

This reminds me of a verse we've encountered a lot of times this year, Exodus 34, 6-7. In that passage, God is telling Moses his name by describing himself, and he says he keeps love for a thousand generations and only punishes to the third or fourth generation.