Do you sometimes find it hard to pick up your Bible? To know where to begin, what you are even reading, how to study + dig deeper?? I get it, friend. I have most definitely been there too! It can be so overwhelming and intimidating for sure. I have discovered over the years that it becomes easier if you have someone to read alongside you, so please join me as we open our Bibles to read together – one chapter at a time.
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Welcome back to the Open Our Bibles Together podcast! As promised at the end of our last episode, back to school equals back to the podcast after a much-needed summer break. It is honestly mind-blowing to consider all of the changes happening in our home and lives this Fall which makes me SUPER GRATEFUL I had the opportunity to slow down and soak i…
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Hello and welcome back to another episode release of our podcast my friends!!! I’m so glad you are here as we begin our studies in the book of Leviticus together. And yes… I did say LEVITICUS. LOL! You may have heard me say in previous episodes of OOBT that the book of Leviticus is often referred to as the place where many one-year Bible reading pl…
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Welcome to Summer 2024 my friends! Today we are going to go all the way back to the beginning of OOBT – dusting off EPISODE TWO and once again taking a listen to some of my fav tips and tricks about How I Study the Bible… as a refresher for many of us and maybe even a first-time listen for all of our new friends who have joined us along the way! Wh…
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As I promised at the end of our last episode of OOBT, we’re going to go back and take a re-listen to our bonus and prequel episode to Exodus from last summer (yep... a whole year ago!) because I really do believe that all I included in that one is going to mean so much more to us now that we've finished our studies in the book of Exodus. I know it …
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:::: THAT’S A WRAP MY OOBTers!! :::: WELL…. WITH THE BOOK OF EXODUS ANYWAY! 🎉🎉🎉 Three books down (Genesis, Job, and now Exodus) with only 63 more to go! We got this right?! LOL! So we FINISH the book of Exodus today AND up next we’ll BEGIN Leviticus. (More on that to come… I promise!) In the meantime, though, I think we could easily sum up nearly a…
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“Show me Your glory.” These words not only ended our last episode of OOBT but are also the ones we pick back up with today as well. Not only does Moses have the opportunity to see God’s glory, but he also comes back down from Mt. Sinai with a radiant face from spending time in God’s presence. Wow! Just wow. We also hear the words God used to descri…
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Welcome to OOBT’s 60th episode my friends!! Yep… you read that right… the big 6-0! Wow! Let’s take a moment today to celebrate that we’ve reached another milestone here on OOBT… in our studies together… we just keep moving right along on those thin crinkly pages and the episodes just keep on piling up, don’t they?! Yay! I’m so glad you’re here with…
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And then what? Have you ever taken a moment in your Easter celebrations to consider the answer to this question… to look to see what happens next in Scripture AFTER we read that the tomb was empty? When we do, what we find, is another 40 days of Jesus here on Earth. Annnndddd we also find a whole lot of post-Resurrection moments that could only be …
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In today’s chapters in Exodus, we take a deep dive into God’s directions to Moses about the priestly garments and the consecration of the priests. However, please know this … all of this is merely meant to point us to Jesus who is described in the New Testament as our Great High Priest. He is the fulfillment of all the things that we see happening …
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Today’s studies on the podcast include LOTS AND LOTS of details about God’s plans to create a tabernacle as a place for Him to dwell among His people here on earth. I don’t know about you but this idea of God dwelling with us reminds me of one of my most favorite things about God… Emmanuel, our God with Us. Annnnddd if you have listened for any amo…
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Law & Order. Anyone who knows me knows that ALL the Law & Order shows are my absolute favorites to watch… most specifically Olivia Benson and Law & Order SVU. 25 seasons and still going strong. So… yes… just in case you are wondering… the play on words in the title of this episode was 100% intentional! LOL! Truthfully, though, it also directly rela…
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Remember Egypt. These two words seem to adequately sum up the beginning of our studies on today's episode of OOBT as we see God reminding the Israelites to remember their rescue … Oh gosh friends. What rescue or (if we're being honest) RESCUES, would God ask you to remember my OOBTers? We’ve already seen God's rescue, His provision, and His loving …
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God’s Cross References + I AM’s Plans
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Happiest of New Year's to all of you my OOBTers! I’m so very glad to be back studying with you after a much needed break during the holiday season! However, I can assure you that I am now 100% ready to jump right into our studies as together we take a deeper dive into just who is this I AM referenced 6,519 times in the Old Testament alone. To revis…
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Out of Egypt I Called My Son
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Merriest ALMOST Christmas to all of you my OOBTers! It’s hard to believe this episode release happens less than one week before Christmas so let’s be sure we spend some time slowing our hearts and minds to lean into that story; to be fully prepared to celebrate that baby in the manger on Christmas Day. With that thought in mind, how about we start …
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Advent. A time to turn our attention toward preparing our hearts and homes to celebrate Jesus’ birth… prepare Him room so to speak. Today’s episode highlights some Old Testament threads, promises, and prophecies of the Rescuer who came down to the Israelites in Egypt just as our Rescuer came down in the form of the baby in a manger. How amazing it …
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Once Again Thankful for God With Us + My Dad ::
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I am guessing this will come as no surprise to any of us, but gratitude is not often our default setting. Complaining and grumbling is. Ouch. With that said (and since we are just coming off the grumbling and complaining of the Israelites in the wilderness after their Exodus from Egypt in our studies), I felt this is an ideal time to lean in here a…
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Hello and Welcome to this episode JAM PACKED FULL of ALL SORTs of celebrating OOBT’s 50th episode + 2nd ANNIVERSARY. Eek! Can you believe it!?! For that reason, we promise you are in for a TREAT today on OOBT… and that sure does seem fitting since we are celebrating not one but TWO big milestones am I right?! Anyway, this episode finds me not just …
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Grumbling. Complaining. Manna from Heaven. Bread of Life. Water from the Rock. Living Water. Rest. Provision. Moses’ Raised Hands. Victory Over the Amalekites. “The LORD is My Banner.” Jethro’s Visit + Zipporah and Their Sons Return to Moses. ((How about I just go ahead and say it right now… the more I read about the grumbling of the Israelites and…
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FIGHT. This one word seems to accurately sum up today’s episode of OOBT. So. Much. Fighting. Pharaoh and his army came for the Israelites. The Israelites fought against Moses about bringing them out into the wilderness to die. God fought for the Israelites when their backs were to the Red Sea. A fight for freedom. A million voices singing praises t…
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Exodus 10-12 details the last three plagues of the ten plagues that fell upon Egypt because Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let the people of God go. Locusts infesting the entire land and devouring whatever food was left after the hail, total darkness that lasted for three days and could be “felt,” the 10th and final plague of the death o…
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Today on OOBT we find the phrase “Let my people go” on repeat. The reason why? Pharaoh’s hardened heart. Full stop. Over and over again we see God sending Moses and Aaron back to request Pharaoh let the Israelites go AND over and over again we hear Pharaoh refuse… just as God said he would. We also see on repeat the disaster and devastation Pharaoh…
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In today’s episode of OOBT, we pick up with more conversation between God and Moses at that burning bush. Truthfully, the verses covered in Exodus 4 were the literal mic drop moment in the creation of this podcast (and yep… the mic pun was definitely intended there! LOL!). These words are now forever etched in M’s mind as confirmation that God has …
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Hello and Welcome to the book of Exodus OOBTers! Listen in as M helps us with the framework of what is for us only a flip of the page from Genesis to Exodus but actually represents many years of hard living and struggle for the Israelites in Egypt. There is so much happening in the “in-between” of the continuation of that storyline. Genesis begins …
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Welcome back OOBTers! This episode is both a BONUS and a PREQUEL to our upcoming studies in the book of Exodus. As M has been digging in to prep for this time together, she’s found so many things to share with you to help us transition from Genesis to Exodus. Truthfully, there are so many valuable things for us to hear … so many things discovered t…
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Welcome to Summer 2023 OOBTers! In today's episode, we are going to go all the way back to the beginning of OOBT as a refresher for many of us as well as maybe even a first-time listen for all of our new friends who have joined us along the way! If finishing the book of Genesis has taught us anything, for sure it has shown us the importance of the …
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:::: THAT’S A WRAP MY OOBTers!! :::: WELL…. WITH THE BOOK OF GENESIS ANYWAY! 🎉🎉🎉 Two books down (Genesis and Job) with only 64 more to go! We got this right?! LOL! So we FINISH the book of Genesis today AND up next we’ll BEGIN Exodus. In the meantime, though, please tuck this truth in the back of your mind… We cannot cut the ties between the books …
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Genesis 46 - 48 :: God Goes With Jacob to Egypt
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Hello there and welcome to the Open Our Bibles Together podcast! I am so happy you are here and joining me today as we once again continue our studies in the book of Genesis. BUUTTT can we just pause to take a moment to celebrate the big 4-O?? Well, OOBT’s 40th episode anyway! LOL! I am super humbled and oh so very excited to still be studying alon…
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Hey there! M here checking in with all of my absolute favorite Bible study partners as we take a deep dive together into Genesis 43-45 in this episode release of the OOBT podcast. Truthfully, where should we even begin as there is so much found in these three chapters tucked near the middle of Joseph’s story… With that in mind, how about we start b…
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Today’s OOBT can best be summed up with these words you’ll hear in this episode, “When you are facing a setback, the beginning of a Joseph-like attitude is to acknowledge that God is with you. There is nothing like His presence to shed new light on a dark situation.” Oh my. Yet another example of our Emmanuel - God With Us, right?! And nope, that i…
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THERE REALLY IS SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. About both of those Marys. Pretty bizarre way to describe an EASTER edition of the OOBT podcast, right?! Today we take a closer look at Mary Magdalene + Mary of Bethany (plus her sister Martha and brother Lazarus) as we consider the miracles and events leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. Kinda hard to …
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Genesis 37-39:: Joseph + Judah – Two Brothers & Their Intersecting Stories of Brokenness
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Today on OOBT, we start our studies with Joseph being sold into slavery and THEN in the very next chapter we read about his brother Judah, and his daughter-in-law, Tamar, to THEN end our time together back with Joseph… but this time… in prison. What seems like a break in the narrative actually becomes crucial to our understanding of the unfolding m…
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Ok, friends, let's just start with this... there’s some really hard stuff found in Genesis 34-36. This one actually comes with a trigger warning as the subject of rape, abuse, and murder are all dealt with in Dinah’s story, as found in Genesis 34. However, as God often does, there is so much tenderness and steadfast love tucked in these chapters as…
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Wrestling. This one word seems to sum up almost everything happening in today’s OOBT episode. Wrestling between Jacob and Laban as Jacob leaves to return to Canaan. Literal wrestling between God and Jacob. (Yes… this really happens!!) Jacob wrestling with his identity and is then given a new name by God. The end of the wrestling between two brother…
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Today’s episode opens with a 500-mile journey (on the run) to Haran. A stairway from heaven. God’s reminder of promises He made to Abraham and Isaac (and now to Jacob). The cheater is cheated. The deceiver is deceived. And then throw in a whole lot of striving, comparison, hurt, jealousy, resentment, and competition between two sister-wives. How ab…
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Deceit. Manipulation. Cheating. Favoritism. Fear. Doubt. Hatred. Danger. Now that’s quite a list, isn’t it?? Today our study resumes in Genesis with the death of Abraham and then lands us right back in the story of Isaac + Rebekah + their twin sons. And every single word on that list above is found in today’s episode of OOBT. Whew. The story of Esa…
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Welcome back OOBTers to a New Year + New Episode of the Podcast! As we are a little over one year into M’s obedience to God’s call for her to be a Bible Study Podcast Host, listen in as she not only encourages herself to keep on in the God-sized mission God gave her in OOBT, but also encourages each one of us to step into both the big and the small…
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Merry Merry Merriest of Christmases to each of you! Be sure to join M on today’s episode of OOBT as she leans in to consider the real lives of the people involved in the Christmas story. In all honesty, her prayer has been and continues to be that God will give us all a new sense of AWE + WONDER as we look closer at the gift of that baby boy in the…
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Welcome back, friends! Be sure to listen in to today’s episode as we dive right on into M’s most favorite time of the year = Advent + Christmas. With that in mind, did you know that Advent actually has two meanings? He has come + He is coming. The first Advent of Jesus as the baby in the manger, and the second Advent will be when He returns someday…
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Hey there OOBTers! Before we get started today, please know that this episode is coming to you from a place of deep heartbreak, loss, and grief mixed with a whole lot of thankfulness and gratitude. “Both/And.” Hard and Good. Joy and Pain. Truthfully, on this side of heaven, we seem to always live in the tension of having both joy AND pain in our li…
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LET’S BEGIN THIS EPISODE BY CELEBRATING OOBT’s ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON NOVEMBER 3rd!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Eek! Can you believe it?! M is so over the top thrilled to reach this one-year milestone by the grace of God + alongside each one of you. Annddd she is EVEN MORE excited to see where our studies continue to take us together in the future! WOW! Just wow. With…
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Genesis 16-20
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In today’s extended episode, M continues our study of Abraham’s story together. M admits she struggles to stay within the allotted time frame for episodes as she finds so many things that she feels she must share. Guilty as charged! LOL! With this in mind, our reading begins with Sarai taking matters into her own hands and her servant Hagar then ru…
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Hello, again, OOBTers! Join M as she takes us back to the beginning… well, the beginning book of the Bible anyway! Following our completion of the book of Job, we are heading back to Genesis. Specifically, we are diving back in at chapter 12 with a promise of God to Abram (who will later be renamed, Abraham). Listen in as M discusses covenants, wai…
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Extended BONUS - Threads to Pull
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Welcome back OOBTers! M is VERY excited to share today’s BONUS + EXTENDED episode with you! You may or may not have noticed yet, but this one pulling some threads from the book of Job is 1 HOUR & 15+ MINUTES of content - now that’s definitely BONUS + EXTENDED, right?! M has a variety of perspectives to discuss in this episode as we determine how to…
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God shows up in a very real way on today’s episode of OOBT!! The God who speaks… Eek! We have waited so very long for this moment!! Join M as she shares what she discovered in studying the last F I V E chapters of the book of Job. Yep. You read that right - we are wrapping up our first full book of the Bible in this episode! CUE THE CONFETTI, right…
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Today’s OOBT episode finds us meeting friend #4, Elihu, who, up until this point, has remained silent. He begins his speech by claiming God had “advanced his wisdom way beyond his years”… well friends, you’ll just have to listen in to find out if he was right about that! Truthfully though, are you exhausted by the ways Job is repeatedly misundersto…
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Have you ever found yourself whispering or even yelling these words out loud? Oh, friends, M has too. Why God? Listen to today’s episode as we find Job heartbroken as he remembers how good his life had been. We would have understood if this was Job’s tipping point, right?! BUT Job still cries out to God. It is a despairing cry, but a cry nonetheles…
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Life. Loss. Loneliness. Suffering. Heartaches. All of these things confuse us and can lead us into dark places as we question over and over the things we can’t understand. Like Job, sufferings in our lives often leave us desperately searching for answers. Searching for wisdom. Searching for God. Join M as she continues to journey through the pages …
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PLEASE NOTE:: Today’s episode comes with a trigger warning as M speaks candidly of her experiences with miscarriage and depression. Hey friends! This one is a definite switch in OOBT’s typical content + format as M spends time openly sharing about a shattering Job season in her own life… and the ways God showed up to meet her in the depths of her d…
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As M opens today’s episode, there is really nothing left to say at this point except, “Oh, Job.” How our hearts continue to break for him. In the loss. The grief. The physical pain. The accusations of the “miserable comforters” he is struggling to call friends still. How many of us have been or even are there right now? Oh, friend. And then there i…
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86,400 seconds. The length of a day. Have you ever thought about that? Let that number sink in for a minute, OOBT friends, and then be sure to join M as she helps us consider the many ways God can (and often does) use the heartbreak and pain of walking through one more TODAY in the midst of our own struggles… the next 86,400 seconds… and the next a…
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