Bible Reading Drought = Big Opportunity!

Are you experiencing a season of dryness in your study of God’s Word? Let Courtney Doctor infuse you with fresh passion in this episode of Grounded. She will share how you can study your Bible and faithfully apply it to your own life. 

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Erin Davis: Well, there's a serious drought going on and I'm not just talking about the grass turning brown in your yard; it sure is brown in my yard. I'm Erin Davis, and this is Grounded. 

Portia Collins: You know, the grass is turning brown down here in Mississippi. Okay, because it has been hot . . . all summer long.

Erin: Yeah, Mississippi hot is a whole next level. 

Portia: A totally different ballgame. Okay, but you know, it's interesting. Many parts of the world are experiencing traditional droughts. This summer, we've seen rivers dry up, crops are in trouble. And at the same time, many are experiencing a spiritual drought. 

Erin: That’s worse. 

Portia: Yes, way worse. But check out this headline. It says, “Bible Reading Hits Historic Low in the U.S.” survey finds. But get this latter part, “It's a Tremendous Opportunity for the Church.”

Erin: Come on. That's where we're gonna land today. Actually, it's doing something right outside my window right here. It hasn't happened for weeks here in Missouri, and that's rain. Just a little bit of rain is going to green things right up. It's a picture for what I want the Lord to do in this episode. 

I taught a girls’ camp just a few weeks ago. The first couple days I was teaching I could tell they weren't quite tracking. Girls had trouble finding anything in their Bibles. I said something about Bible stories. And those girls went back to their cabin later that night and said, “What's a Bible story?” And so, I had to realize, we're at a totally different level here. These girls don't know where the Old Testament is. They don't know where the New Testament is. They don't know what a Bible story is. 

And that's because if fewer people are reading their Bibles, which of course if fewer people are reading their Bibles, fewer people know what's in their Bibles. And we want to position that for what it really is. We think it's an opportunity for discipleship. So, we're gonna dig down into what are the opportunities in this Bible reading drought.

Portia: Absolutely. I'm ready for it. You know me, I'm a Bible girl.

Erin: I know you are.

Portia: Well, Courtney Doctor is here with us. She's got a new Bible study on the book of Romans. And we're going to ask her, “How can we keep our own passion for God's Word from drying up?”

Erin: I'm a Bible girl too. I do love the Scripture. But I gotta say, if I'm honest, I've been in a little bit of a drought myself. I haven't had a specific part of Scripture that I've been studying, I haven't had the want to as much as I sometimes do. 

So, this is the conversation for me as much as it is for anybody else. How we can seize the opportunity to point women we know and are connected to, women who aren't reading their Bibles. We're going to turn on that spigot of hope and perspective. That's what we do here. So, this episode is worth you listening to because you can make a difference in reversing this Bible reading drought.

Portia: Yeah, you know, as you're saying that it's so funny, because I'm watching a tractor run right across.

Erin: Spraying those crops.

Portia: Yeah. Before we tell you some good news this morning, let me encourage you to share this episode. All right, Bible reading is hitting historic lows, and that's not good news. Okay, we want your help to do something about it. So, hit the share button. 

Erin, give me some good news girl.

Erin: Yeah, I just pictured women all around the world just turning on that fire hose of truth by doing something about this drought. Things flourish pretty quickly if you would do that. 

Well, there may be a Bible reading drought here in the United States. But is it global? Is it everywhere? Is everyone losing their hunger for Scripture? 

Well, I can tell you that in parts of Latin America, women are reading their Bibles and flourishing. In fact, I'm going to use the word revival for what God's doing in some parts of the world. Here to tell us more about that is Nicole Njoroge. Did I say your name right? It's a doozy. It's got all the consonants . . . She serves on staff with us at Revive Our Hearts. Welcome to Grounded, Nicole.

Nicole Njoroge: Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Aviva Nuestros Corazones is the Spanish division of Revive Our Hearts, your followers may or may not know. 

Erin: Thank you, you saved me there. I didn't have to say Aviva Nuestros Corazones in Spanish, because I can't say it as beautifully as you can. But women need to know it is the Spanish arm of the ministry of Revive Our Hearts. A couple of years ago, your team, Nicole, took up a big goal. And that was that you were going to walk women through the whole Bible. Tell us a little bit about that decision, where that came from, how that idea was formed. What do you remember about that time?

Nicole: Yeah, so the year before, we were talking to the team, and we were a pretty small team then. We've grown a lot, even just in the last couple years. But we wanted to make sure our women were following us just because it's connected to Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. Or just because we have a good teaching on. Women and eating and control are some of those topics that are very specific to women, we wanted to make sure their foundation was Scripture and that's where all the teachings are poured out of. 

And so as a team, we're like, let's read the Bible in a year. Let's read alongside women. Let's get women all over the world, Hispanic women that live all over, reading together. 

And to help that, we decided we would split up the Bible within our team. We each would read certain books of the Bible and write a small devotional of what we're learning to kind of have that fellowship, through a blog of what these chapters in Genesis say. And then, what these chapters in Exodus say.

And we filled a whole year of blogs, reading through the Bible. 

Erin: That’s amazing. 

Nicole: We did it three years ago, in 2020. When we first launched, we didn’t know the pandemic was gonna lock down the country a couple of months after we launched. We're now starting our third year. We've actually turned those devotionals into a podcast. 

And so, we have some women that are now in their third year reading the Bible along with us. Each year, it seems like more and more decided to join. We have thousands of testimonies that flow in, kind of like what you were mentioning earlier, of women just hungry for the Word, but they don't necessarily realize it. 

I even have I pulled up a testimony. This is translated.

Erin: Yeah, give it to us. 

Nicole: It says, 

“I was very discouraged from seeking more from the Lord. I felt without energy or encouragement to read and meditate on His word. But He began to disturb my heart to awaken that fire of love for Him, and what He tells me through the Bible, but I couldn't find out how to organize myself, or how to initiate that recognition and return to the close relationship with the Lord. Because I wanted it so much, and it was when His grace, it was when by His grace, I saw this year's reading plan. I immediately went and downloaded the reading plan and put it on my challenge and put it on my schedule. It was a new challenge for 2020. There were days when I fell behind or felt tired, but He gave me strength to continue. And I can say that this year, I got to know Him a little more. I fell in love with my Savior over again and now continue to grow, to know Him more and more.”

Erin: Oh man, I got goosebumps on my arm because that is a story of a woman who was wilting. And she used a word I love, awaken. Scripture does that in our hearts. It awakens our hearts. I'd love to hear how your life has been changed, Nicole, as you've been one of the ones that is pointing women towards reading the Bible every day. I assume you have to read it every day to get through the whole Bible in a year. What's the Lord done in your life?

Nicole: Well, let's just say I like to give myself challenges like this woman, so I tried to pick the hardest books to sign up for to write the devotional. Numbers and Chronicles was a couple of them. 

Erin: Woah. 

Nicole: I enjoyed the challenge. It definitely challenged me, maybe more than I thought, but definitely helped me just dig deeper in Scripture. One of my favorite verses is from Proverbs 25, where it says it's the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings to search out a matter. And the more you dig inside God's Word, you find this treasure. It's always like, let's be a king in search of what God has hidden in His Word. And so, it's crazy how big treasures are hidden, that is far beyond the surface level of Christianity sometimes.

Erin: Man, that's a great way to say it. Yeah, I was gonna ask, which came first, the chicken or the egg, the hunger or the Bible reading? I think they can sometimes go back and forth. I think sometimes even we're not hungry for Scripture. If we're obedient, God's going to give us that hunger. And sometimes we have that hunger, and that drives us to God's Word. I don't want to let the feelings drive. I love that you are just encouraging women in Latin America to get into God's Word. Do you think you'll keep going? Will you do the Bible in a year forever? And ever? Or are you just taking it a year at a time?

Nicole: I think we're taking it a year at a time. But I think the hope is to keep going. We have women beyond that we don't even know that hear about our Bible Challenge through WhatsApp through groups that aren't even, you know, following our website, but they're following the reading challenge. So, we're just happy that God's doing something we might never know about.

Erin: Yeah, and you actually are inspiring the English side to Revive Our Hearts. We have a goal to encourage women to read through the whole Bible at some point in the future. We'll announce it when it's here. But we want to fight the drought. How can our Grounded friends in Latin America follow along with you? I know we're partway through the year, but I'm sure they can jump in and anytime how can they jump in and start reading the Bible with you?

Nicole: They can visit AvivaNuestrosCorazones.com. Under podcasts you’ll find Mujer Verdadera, a single podcast where they can both listen to the audio devotional or read it alongside. And then in there, they'll find the plan. But like you mentioned, you can start anytime you do not have to start January 1 to read Genesis 1. Those are up on our website. We also have it on our app too. A lot of women join on the app or telegram. We're everywhere, so you can look it up. 

Erin: You guys always say Latin women are their own distribution device because they distribute it to each other which I love. Well, Latin American women who are passionate about Scripture and are reading through the Bible this year with Aviva Nuestros Corazones You are good. Are you are our good news, man. My tongue gets tied when I tried to speak Spanish. You're our good news. We celebrate with you, and I could just see that awakening his love for Scripture. And thanks, Nicole.

Nicole: Gracias. 

Erin: Portia, you got to take over. I can't talk anymore. My tongue has betrayed me. 

Portia: I'm over here. Like really admiring Nicole’s ability to let those words flow. 

Erin: So good. So good. And then Erin comes on and goes . . . so you’ve got to take over. 

Portia: It's fine. It's fine. You did better than me. 

Alright, guys. So Courtney Doctor. is here. Can you see the excitement? Oh, my face. Courtney is a wife, a mama, grandmama. She has written a few Bible studies. I'm fortunate to have this. It is her most recent one: In View of God's Mercy. And yeah, I love Courtney. She's a dear friend. She's a coordinator of women's initiatives for The Gospel Coalition. I'm excited to welcome her so hey, Courtney, welcome. 

Courtney Doctor: Hey, Portia, good to see you. 

Portia: Likewise, friend, likewise. So, check this out. I read on your website that your greatest desire is to be able to faithfully study, apply, and teach the Word of God and to help others do the same. So, I want you to coach us up. How do we become women who help other women know and love God's Word?

Courtney: What a great question for sure. Well, I mean, it's our greatest joy isn't it to not only have this love of God's Word increase in our own hearts and minds, but then to watch it increase in the hearts and minds of those people around us—whether they're neighbors, coworkers, children, people at church. I mean, it's just a joy to see that sort of fire and love and understanding, just take root and grow. 

So, there are so many ways to go about it. I think one thing that I was slow to realize in my own life, even in the context of just my family, I didn't really talk about how much I love God's Word. I didn't really talk about what that morning I had learned in His Word or what I had learned in my Bible study. It was happening, but I think when we talk about it, we just share what we read, what we learned, what we saw. 

I just did the impromptu road trip with my adult daughter, one of my adult daughters. She was doing this on the trip. She was saying, you know, Mom, this is what I've been reading. This is what I've been studying. This is the verse I'm memorizing, and her joy was contagious to me. 

And so, I think, first and foremost, if you're somebody who is in the Word and loves the Word, let your joy and your love of the Word show.

Portia: Yes, that is super encouraging and convicting. Because I realized, I sometimes conceal that joy a little bit. I'm in my world with my Bible. And I'm like, yes. But I think our enthusiasm and our joy could be motivators for others. So, I love that. I love that. 

I want to share this quote that I picked up. It came from an article, and we'll get a little bit more into my question, but I want to share this preface things by sharing this quote. iIt says, 

“Our postmodern culture has produced people who do not know the Ten Commandments, the books of the Bible, or even basic Bible stories. Because of this, many interested women join a Bible study only to be embarrassed that they cannot flip to cross reference their Bibles or participate in discussion that requires previous Bible knowledge.”

So, that's the quote. I think this is interesting and begs the question of how can we leverage situations like what is being described here in this quote, as opportunities to better teach and equip women?

Courtney: What can I answer, speaking to both women in that scenario . . . So the the woman who is showing up and is embarrassed to not know, I want to just speak to her first, because that was me. When my husband and I first became believers, I had to take my Bible and put, the tabs there so that I could know where to go? Yes, because I didn't know where to find those books. And I thought I would be embarrassed, too. 

So to that woman who is at that place, where if somebody said turn to the book of Matthew, you would need to go to the table of contents, just be encouraged, go to the table of contents. There is no shame in that. The Lord is not sad by that. He's real, that you're going to the table of contents and finding out where the book of Matthew is.

To the women who are in the study who know where the book of Matthew is, or the book of Amos, and they can turn their way without going to their table of contents . . . Please create a culture in your church that says, “We're not going to assume that we all know where it is. We're not going to be prying people that we were able to turn there without going to the table of contents.” And so, so just explain that we're going to be turning to page whatever, or we're going to be flipping past don't go this way, go that way. 

But just normalize the fact that it's okay to not know at the beginning what the Ten Commandments are, and it's okay. If somebody is showing up and they're wanting to learn, oh, my word, welcome them with open arms. Realize that most of us were in that exact spot at one point. 

But the idea that we are in a culture that no longer just has an understanding of the Bible, I think we still live in a time when most people know what the Bible is, but there is a there are a lot of assumptions about what the Bible says that it's going to be a lot of rules. They are going to tell you not to do a lot of things that you want to do. So I would say to anybody who doesn't know the Bible, but wants to know the Bible, ask the Lord to just open your eyes and pick it up and start reading. I think you guys were talking a little bit earlier, some are easier than others. Find a good study that helps you understand what the Word is saying? And to us, the Lord is at work there. The Bible is different than any other book that has ever been written. It is living and active. 

That's not just something that we say, it actually is alive, and it gives life to those who read it. But it also in being active, it changes us. And the Spirit of God is present in the people that are reading the Word of God. 

And so, how do we encourage people to say, “Oh, open it and start reading and trust the Lord?” In this in this cultural moment that we find where it's not a given that people understand what the word is?

Portia: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, one of the things that I'm hearing you say, as you say all of it is humility.

Courtney: Yes.

Portia: Like we have to have humility in how we teach and how we share and even how we model what we're learning and how we're growing as Christian women. So, I think that that is really, really good. That's really good. 

So practically speaking, because I know our ladies are Grounded sisters . . . They're like, we hear what you're saying, but what does this look like for me? What is one way that we can actually get into our Bibles more, while also helping and encouraging other sisters to get in the Bible more?

Courtney: Well, I think to the woman who knows the Lord and is going through that season of drought . . . If that's where you are, you're just not feeling it. I would say, show up obediently because the Lord is working and push against the idea that the reason I'm in the Word every day is because it's going to make me have a better day, I'm going to get something just for that day. 

That's simply not why we go to the Word. I mean, there are times that the Lord gives us that word for the day. And it's so encouraging and so nourishing. But it really is for the long haul. It's doing today, what we know our future self is going to need because it's growing us. It's strengthening us, maturing us, rooting us, establishing us. I mean, that's what the Word does. 

And so, for the woman who knows the Lord and just not feeling it, I would just say them, be obedient and run to the Word. 

But if you're wanting to help others do that, I think one of the most beautiful ways to invite somebody to know the Word is instead of just handing them a Bible and saying, “Good luck. Let me know if you're in it every day.” That has a place. But what if you read it together? What if you invited somebody to meet with you for 30 minutes a week or an hour a week, and you've read it together and you read it out loud? 

You know, most of these books when they were first read, they were read out loud to groups of people, to the congregations. So read it out loud, meet in a Starbucks and read it out loud. There's a great book by David Helm called One to One Bible Reading that will help you. It's sort of a curriculum for how to do that. Or I think of Melissa Kruger's book, Growing Together. There are resources out there to help us do that. 

You have to encourage someone with more than just words, but with action saying, “Let's do this together. And let's read it out loud.” And then, ask good questions, read it out loud. And then really, I always ask three simple questions of the text. 

What did I just learn about God? Who He is, right? Yep. That's the first thing. I'm in Ezekiel right now. I need to really ask myself, “What am I learning about God” when I finish my reading? 

And then what do I learn about my need or our need for salvation? Usually that's pretty evident, right? And then the third question I ask is, what's a faithful response look like? And so, the faithful response might be obedience to a command, but it might be that I fall on my face and I worship and I praise. It might be that I develop a heart of gratitude. It might be that I go to a brother or sister and repent. 

I mean, there are so many different ways to faithfully respond to what the Word is saying, but what do I learn about God? What do I learn about my need, our needs? 

And then what does a faithful response look like? That's those simple questions to ask of any text that help us do more than just read and kind of do the check mark, like, oh, I just read. But to really, really study to apply, to look for how the Word is going to change us.

Portia: Yes, I love that. In fact, exactly what you said is one of the things that I always recommend that Christ-centered grid to view Scripture through. Those three questions are perfect. It's often a springboard for so much more. Like it actually moves you to even get deeper into the Word of God. And so that's great. It has been a joy to chat with you today. How can the Grounded sisters connect with you or check out your studies or read your blogs or whatever? What can we do to connect?

Courtney: My very occasional blogs, I don’t write them very often, but the website is, CourtneyDoctor.org. Or Instagram, those are probably the best places two connect with me. I would love to connect with you. Portia, I love any chance I get to talk with you. You're so dear to me.

Portia: I love you too. Thank you, Courtney. Have a good one.

Well, what's the goal of Bible study in the first place? All right, one of my favorite Bible teachers, Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, says it's not just to fill our heads. It's more than that. Listen to this short clip.

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: The purpose of Bible study and Bible teaching is not just to dispense more information. Now, we need information. There's a lot of information in this Book. But biblical illiteracy is rampant today, even within the church. So, we need the teaching, we need the information. But the goal isn't to stuff people's heads full of more information or to give them more notebooks to put on their already crowded shelves. The goal was that they would know God. And that that knowledge would transform their lives from the inside out, that they would be conformed, that they would become earnest fervent disciples of Jesus, spiritual reproducers. That's the goal of our teaching.

Erin: At my house, she mentioned those shelves full of crowded notebooks. I certainly have some of those. But I love that reminder that we're not just after head knowledge. As we get grounded in God's Word. I want you to open your Bibles and turn to 2 Corinthians.

I'm going to immediately implement some of that great coaching we got from Courtney. 2 Corinthians is located in the New Testament. This is an easy one ladies, it follows 1 Corinthians, and we're going to be in chapter 3. 

As you're getting there in your Bible, I'm going to tell you a tale of two Bibles. I once met a woman, and she told me that she owned in her possession the Bibles of both of her grandmothers—her maternal grandmother and her paternal grandmothers. She had both of their Bibles. She told me one of them looked like it had just been bought at the store—pristine. You could tell the binding had barely been cracked, no notes in the pages of that Bible. Again, it looked like a brand-new Bible. The other Bible from her other grandmother was falling apart. The pages were filled with years’ worth of notes that this woman had written in the margins. Prayers she recorded, church bulletins she'd stuck in the pages, the binding was disintegrating. This was a Bible that had been well used. 

I said, “Is there a connection between the state of your grandma's Bibles and the state of their lives?” 

And she said, “Absolutely.” 

You've probably heard it said that if a Bible is falling apart, it is owned by a woman who lived our Bible. You can often tell it just by looking at it. 

Okay, I've got a second story. I was teaching not long ago and a woman in the crowd invited her Buddhist neighbor to come to this event. Now, it was obviously a Christian event. My job was to teach the Bible and share the gospel. And yet, this friend invited her Buddhist neighbor to attend. The friend found me afterwards and told me that while I was teaching, her friend leaned over and whispered something kinda strange. “Can I touch it?” Later she told her friend, “I don't know what is going on. I am just so drawn to your Bible.” She'd never touched one. She'd never handled one. But as the Spirit of God was moving among women who loved the Word, she suddenly wanted to grab it and open it. 

Okay, this isn't another story, but it's a slogan. I remember it from my childhood. The slogan was from Smokey the Bear. He said, “Only you can prevent forest fires,” which always made me feel a little afraid as a kid, like I didn't know how to prevent forest fires. 

But I would say to you this morning or this evening, this afternoon, whenever you're watching or listening to this, only you can stop the Bible reading drought. And the way that you do that is by showcasing the impact of the Scriptures on your own life. 

Paul had something to say about this. It's in 2 Corinthians chapter 3, verses 1 through 3, I'm reading it this time in my ESV Bible. “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?” Paul wrote, “Or do we need as some do letters of recommendation to you or from you?” Paul would sometimes have a little sarcasm, which is part of why I liked him. Verse 2, “You yourselves are our letter of recommendation written on our hearts to be known and read by all.” Verse 3 “And you show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.” 

Paul is saying, “Do I need an impressive resume? No, I don't. But if I did, you'd be it. You are my evidence of God at work. You are my living letter. You weren't written with a pen. You were written at the hand of God. Your life showcases that God is real, the gospel is true, and the Bible is impactful.” 

So let me commission you friends. Now, there's a Bible reading drought going on here in America and in many other parts of the world. You know that we live in a postmodern culture where for the first time in a long time, the majority of people might not know what the Ten Commandments are. The majority of the people might not understand the way that the Bible is structured. We can no longer make assumptions that when we say Noah's Ark, everybody knows what we're talking about. And I'm going to say it again, we've got an opportunity. 

So, which living letter are you? Are you the Bible that looks pristine, because it hasn't been opened? Because the demands of your life keep pulling you away from it and you haven't dug in? It hasn't become a pattern? Are you the second Bible? A Bible falling apart held by a woman who isn't? We are the evidence to the world that the Bible is worth reading. And we are the evidence to the world that the Bible makes a difference. 

So, I'll join in Paul's commissioning and commission you as living letters to a world that needs to know that God's Word is the answer to the dryness that they're experiencing in their heart. 

Okay, one more story and then I'm done, I promise. I met a woman not long ago who decided she was going to have a neighborhood Bible study; she felt called by the Lord to do it. And so, she invited her neighbors. She said, “Erin, not a single one of them is a Christian, but they all come week after week.” She told me about it because they're doing my Bible study 7 Feasts which, guys, is on the Book of Leviticus chapter 23. So, imagine that women who don't know the Lord saying yes to a Bible study on Leviticus, and they're coming week after week, and this woman said, “Ah, they're so thirsty.”

Do you need to start a neighborhood Bible study? I don't know. But you can turn on the hose in the midst of this Bible reading drought. I know what you might be thinking. I'm not a Bible teacher. And not everybody is. And that's why when we point you to some tools this week, we want to point you to the Women of the Bible series from Revive Our Hearts. We've got Ruth, Rahab, Esther, Abigail, and Elizabeth, five studies in the Women of the Bible series. And they all come with a series of videos, so you don't have to teach. You just have to invite and press play. (That makes me sound dated. That's an old VCR reference.” But you just have to get that video going on YouTube. If you subscribe to the Revive Our Hearts, YouTube channel, you'll find there some playlists. There are playlists for the Women of the Bible series. You'll see Portia and I make some appearances in some of those.

Portia: Yeah, don't we always have a good time?

Erin: We do.

Portia: We always have a good time when we get together for any Bible study. I think we really had a good time with the Women of the Bible.

Erin: Yeah, we did.

Portia: Good deal. Well, maybe you have realized that you haven't been reading your Bible. It's okay. I'm not shaming you. We've got a resource page that is loaded with tips on how to study your Bible. And so, we will drop a link in the chat and the show notes.

Erin: We will’ we've always got you covered. Hey, I don't know what the Lord is gonna call you to do from here, but I think he'll probably call you to take some action. Maybe it's that one to one. Have a coffee with a friend and walk through the book of John together. Maybe it’s start a neighborhood Bible study. Maybe you're already teaching the Bible and you need to adjust your expectations a little bit by the realization that the landscape has changed. 

But, again, I think the fact that Bible reading is dropping is an opportunity for us. We get to tell them. Can you imagine that there's people walking around that don't know the story of Noah and the flood, that don't know the wise men that came at Jesus's birth, that don't know some of those things that are just a part of the air we breathe. We get to be the ones to tell them, so I'm excited for what this opportunity might bring through the Grounded sisterhood.

Portia: Yes, me too. Me too. Like I said, we're Bible girls. And so yeah, this is our thing.

Erin: It is.

Portia: Well, next week on Grounded guess what? We're gonna be doing a podcast on podcasts. See what I did there? We're gonna have some Grounded favorites: Laura Booz, Staci Rudolph, Michelle Hill. They are going to be here and going to give you all the recommendations for what to listen to next. All right. 

Erin: You're gonna want to bring your phone to that. No, just kidding. Bring your phones to that episode because we're going to be telling you which podcasts to hit that subscribe button for him between now and then read your Bible. Let's wake up with hope together next week on Grounded.

Aviva Nuestros Corazones website  

Mujer Verdadera 365 podcast 

In View of God's Mercy by Courtney Doctor

Courtney Doctor's book recommendations: One to One Bible Reading by David Helm; Growing Together by Melissa Kruger 

What’s the Goal of Bible Study?, with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Women of the Bible series

How to Study the Bible

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