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#068 "Abiding Together: Bible Study for the Whole Family"
In Part III of this "Ask Us Anything" series....
What happens when kids move from “borrowed faith” to their own authentic relationship with Jesus? In this episode, Kate talks with Aaron and Liam—two pre-teens learning to follow Jesus—whose insights remind us why family Bible study matters.
Kate and Jason also share candidly about their own rhythms: how studying separately still leads to meaningful conversations, how personality shapes learning, and how faith can show up naturally—even on vacation. You’ll also hear practical ways to include children in Scripture, approach prayer with confidence, and choose church and resources wisely.
This conversation will encourage you that family Bible study doesn’t have to look identical or perfect—just real, personal, and rooted in God’s Word.
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Hey guys, this is Kate from Abidible.com, and you're listening to the Abidible Podcast. I'm just a regular wife and mom who's had my life transformed by learning to study the Bible on my own. If I can, you can. On this show, I help you know and love God more by abiding in Him through His Word, yourself. All right, my friends, I have a special surprise today on the podcast. While we are talking about family and discipling family, there is a special guest joining me on the podcast, a very good family friend of ours and Liam's buddy. They've been really good buddies for about three years, known each other for four years. Aaron is joining us on the podcast, and he is going to answer some questions about studying the Bible. Liam, my son, is going to ask Aaron the questions. And this is going to be really neat for you guys as parents to hear, or those of you who are grandparents or who have nieces and nephews who you'd love to teach the Bible to. We've got some great questions that these two are going to talk about right now. So, Liam, you ready to ask some questions?
Liam:Good to see you be back here on the podcast once again. Hello, world. So, Aaron, if a friend your age asked you what the Bible is, what would you say?
Aaron:Well, Liam, I would say the Bible is God's word that He told people to write down for us and not just to only use it on Sunday. Every day, whenever you want. We need it even if we don't think we have time for it.
Liam:That is perfectly true, right out of the Bible. Exactly how it should be scripted. So why do you think kids should read and study the Bible?
Aaron:Well, Liam, I think kids should study the Bible because we don't want the kids to have borrowed faith from their parents. We need them to have their own faith, their own relationship with Jesus, our Creator. If they don't, they're gonna, there's gonna be a problem.
Liam:That's a good one that you got from youth group. That one is such a good one. Next question is what does studying the Bible look like in your family?
Aaron:Well, in our family, usually in the morning, you see, we're homeschooled. So in the morning when we're doing school, my mom will get off get out a Bible study and she will read about it and then she will ask us to look up verses, and then when we're done, we usually talk about the verse.
Liam:Oh, that's fun. I should really try that. I really want to try that. Since we're also homeschooled as well, um, we usually just come here around nine o'clock or ten o'clock, and we get up, get to the table, and then we open the Bible, and then we just read we're reading through John right now, then we'll probably move into Acts or Romans or something. We've just been reading in there, and then we just pick whatever's next, and then we read a good chunk of it that goes together in the flow, and then we read it, and then we do a praise, repent, and ask, and then we do the Lord's Prayer. After I ask after I ask more than 15 questions. Why more than that? Homeschool for the win. Yeah. The second to last question What advice would you have for parents who want to help their kids love the B-I-B-L-E?
Aaron:Um I would advise don't just hand them the Bible and hand them the book the Bible study. Actually do it with them. Because kids, I know from experience, unfortunately, they just sometimes skim over it and don't really like learn the word that they need it, even if they don't feel like they do.
Kate:And you and I had talked to Aaron briefly about what about a parent who feels like they don't know everything? Like, what if my kid asks me something that I don't know the answer to?
Aaron:Well, I would say you're not gonna have all the answers no matter how hard you try. You're just gonna have to pray and ask God for the answers. Because you're not gonna know all the answers. Only God knows all the answers.
Kate:Does mama always know the answers, Lam, when you ask me the question?
Liam:Uh not always, but most of the most of them if they are the questions. But what do we do if we don't know the answer? We uh look it up on maybe uh you could do like on AI or on Google. Yeah, put that. Or blue letter Bible or something. Oh, I have that app. Yeah, there's lots of different AI.
Aaron:AI basically just AI. I should also mention now that AI was not always gonna be correct. Don't trust everything you see that AI makes. Double check, triple check, quadruple check.
Liam:Next question is are there any verses you'd like to share from members of the Okay, I'm probably gonna mess this up, but let's just go for it.
Aaron:Hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart, and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Amazing. Does he have a Bible in front of him?
Liam:No. Is he doing that from memory? Yep, I can do that from memory too. That's pretty cool. You want to give it a try? No. Okay, good. So that was Deuteronomy 6, 4 through 7, that Aaron just did.
Kate:Hey, Aaron, thank you for popping over to our house again on the title.
Liam:Any day. Any day. Thanks for asking the questions, Liam. Welcome. See you later. Oh, hold on. Lam, signing off. Aaron? Bye.
Jason:Well, all right then. Uh don't necessarily know how to transition from those boys, one of them obviously being my boy, and by the voices, you can probably d decide which one that is. But on a serious note, it is very cool to hear them doing this. And as their Sunday school teacher for a couple years, it's also cool to s to hear them grow and some of the things that they're saying that I think they really d understand and know. And it's not just words that have been fed to them. I think Aaron said something about not borrowing your parents' faith, but having your own. And I think it's becoming evident in the way that you can hear them talk. So it's very cool to hear them do that and very special that they wanted to do that on here.
Kate:So encouraging that they wanted to share that with you guys. I hope you enjoyed that little segment from our buddies. Now we're gonna transition into um some questions that you sent in for Jason and I. Our topic today is abiding together. Your questions were pretty heavily focused on us as a couple, but there was some stuff about our children as well. So this is kind of an abiding together Bible study, prayer, and discipleship for the whole family. So we're gonna kick off with sort of um an interesting question, which is what does your Bible study look like on vacation?
Jason:Oh, I wish we could have started with a different question. Um I'll just say straight up from the beginning. It often doesn't look like anything. When I go on vacation, I get very caught up in vacation. Either relaxing or wanting to just go do and see everything that's not something that I recommend or that I'm highlighting, but you know, I think it's important to be honest that it doesn't always look great. So that's something that I am convicted of and something that I want to do better at is to actually have a method and system of Bible study. Saying that, I think if I could encourage people, maybe even encourage myself, it's probably gonna look different. And in some ways it's gonna look I don't want to say less necessarily, but but if you're thinking of Bible study as having multiple tools open and your Bible out and sitting at a desk, it's probably not gonna look that way on vacation. And so it could just be it's a it's a reading plan, you know. It may not be that you're doing an in-depth study, you know, it may just be a journal, or you know, sometimes just gonna be reading something and maybe it isn't a journal. It's a I think it's gonna look different. So I think just understanding that and giving yourself the grace and freedom to have it look different and be okay with that and understand that vacation is different than regular life.
Kate:Yeah, I agree. I think that we have to be realistic about what it's gonna look like and also remember why we abide in the first place. Like time with God is to know and love him more. And you can do that on vacation. I I know that when, you know, like say Disneyland, for example, we're up super early, we go hard, we're there all day, and we come home late. And exactly what you said, we're not gonna have all of our commentaries and Bible notebooks and everything open and handy. But I think one thing that I've noticed change for me is that, you know, I do miss having that form. I you guys know me, I'm a nerd. I love having everything spread out and studying. So I miss that time when I'm on vacation, but I also find the deposits that I've made in that more formal time available as withdrawals, meaning like that it just kind of spills over into conversation while we're on vacation. And so that might look like, you know, seeing my son overjoyed with emotion and excitement that he was able to do a roller coaster that was terrifying to him and praying with him about it beforehand, talking to him about God being with him. It's a roller coaster. I know that might sound silly, but it's not silly because it matters to him in that moment. And so, who is God to my son when he's doing this thing, he's terrified about? God is here, God is with you, what do we know to be true? And then praising God together afterwards, even just like God is so cool that he helped you to do that thing. And so finding ways, and I think this is the crux of Abidible, and it's the crux of the verse that we um used as inspiration for Abidible from Deuteronomy, which Aaron just quoted about teaching it diligently to your children and talking about it when you go out and when you come. It's not just meant to be or to look a certain way, and it's supposed to be when you rise and when you go back to sleep. So I guess I would say that it's just a natural overflow from what has already been deposited from what we're doing, like our natural rhythms that we're doing together, even just Liam and I, like in our quiet time that he mentioned in the mornings before school starts, that it's natural and easy for me to say those things to him about God in an amusement park. Whereas five years ago, when we weren't doing that at all, he would have been like, What? Like, why are you trying to thank God for helping us to be on a roller coaster? And so that's why I think the rhythms of everyday life are important and the discipline of being in the word, like Aaron was talking about, you know, doing it because we need it. You know, I love that Aaron said it's something that we need. I think that that can be in a beautiful way, it can spill over, and then you can be gracious with yourself to not be like, well, I didn't sit down for my hour long quiet time in the middle of my European vacation.
Jason:Can you talk about some ways that you and Jason are able to study together andor separately through doing a similar method within the abidable framework? What looks similar and what looks different? Does it depend on gender, personality, or learning style?
Kate:Oh my gosh, that's a really good, really hard question, too. Uh multifaceted question. I would say just the first part of it, talking about how you and I study together. Uh, we mostly study separately, but we're often studying the same things. For example, now we're both in into the wilderness. And what happens most often for us is that one of us will see something or learn something and bring it up in conversation with one another. We currently in this season do not have a formal, like, hey, we're I'm doing that, we're doing the same verse today, and then we're gonna, you know, do our memory work together on Friday. We don't have that sort of formal structure right now because we're also both doing separate things. I do my own individual private study, separate from anything having to do with abidable. Uh, and then you also have some stuff that you do with your accountability partner and your band of brothers. So we have a lot of a lot of things, different things going on. But whenever something really cool or interesting or exciting comes up that we see or that we learn, we frequently just talk about it. In terms of doing a similar method within the abidable framework, do you want to go ahead and answer that second part about what looks different for the two of us?
Jason:So part of the question says, does it depend on gender personality or learning style? And then, you know, kind of what looks different or similar for us. I think it absolutely depends on the person. So there's gonna be differences in gender, but then even within gender, it's gonna look different too, person to person. I think one main difference between the two of us is you like to go much deeper and longer and write more notes. Whereas I'm fewer words, and so I'll research something, get something that I think is like that's really good, and I want to just sit on that and camp on it. And there may be five other things there, but it's just not my personality or the way that I study or the way that things connect as much to write down all of those things and to look at every commentary and write a bunch of notes and all those things. So I think that's one big difference. Whereas maybe you go wider, I may potentially go deeper on certain things, and so those complement each other really well. Things that I didn't see because I didn't look at every single word you did, and then that helps inform something that I saw that you didn't see for that same word. So ultimately, in in this question, it's gonna look different for everybody, and that's that's cool, and that's that's what I think is gonna complement, you know, people, whether it's couples, whether it's groups of people. I mean, like that's that's the beauty of the body is that God reveals different things to different people, and the word is living and active. So even me, I'm gonna read something today, get something out of it tomorrow, completely different, or or maybe not completely different, but something different because I'm in a different season, and the same thing with different people.
Kate:I think that season piece is really important too. Like that we have we have a lot of moms with like lots of kids. We have moms with like little kids, so their season looks different. We've got, you know, working professionals that are coming home really exhausted, making dinner, cleaning the house, and going to bed to do it all over again. So even getting up early in the morning is a challenge. So finding the time is hard, you know. So at a biteable, like one of the things that I am most passionate about saying is that the idea here is you just know what the next thing is that you can do. And even if that means that you are cross-referencing a single verse for multiple days, like maybe you are doing Deuteronomy 6, 4, and you are spending three, four days cross-referencing because you're enjoying it that much, you are in the Word. You're with God and it's about time with Him. It's not a race, it's a place that you get to be. And our method, what I love about it so much, and why I'm so passionate about repeating this to people, is that we just have in our mind that it has to look a certain way. We have to check a certain number of boxes, we have to feel like we've accomplished a certain amount of things to have qualified for, quote, quiet time or Bible study time, when it's more about being sitting, abiding with the Lord and letting the Holy Spirit really guide that time too, even if it's 10 minutes, even if it's two hours. And I would say that I think it's really important for us to be gracious, even with the schedule. And I think that's why Jason and I have found that it's difficult for us to go through a study and stay at the same pace because he and I approach it differently. So we have enjoyed giving each other the freedom and flexibility to one of us sometimes gets ahead of the other, and then we still share and talk about the things that we're learning along the way without having to be as structured. Now, if this is the first time that you're studying together in this way and you want to be more aligned, then you can do that. You can set a schedule and you can, as each person, you know, approaches it, and maybe maybe the husband has more time and can go more in depth, then that's how it looks. And the and the wife in that season is doing the same verse on the same day, but she's doing it her way, that's fine. Just talk that through. And probably I would suggest have clear expectations and clear communication about it as you go. And if you find that it's working, keep doing it. If you find that you need to kind of free each other up to go at your own pace and do it in your own way, I think that's important too to not because we are, we are all different. Our learning styles are different, and the amount of time that we want to spend is different. So I understand that the desire, though, as a husband and wife to be like unified in the verses that they're studying together. This kind of ties into our next question, which is just describing your experience as a man related to abidable, in terms of is this a good method for men uh who are in small groups?
Jason:Yeah, I mean, I think it definitely can be. I uh have not done it um with a small group, but I know that you have women who are doing it in small groups, and I think anybody studying the Bible together is gonna be a good thing. So I don't think there's any difference necessarily between it's gonna work better for women versus men. I would say my experience, I'm in a band of brothers, we're not going through the Bible study method, but it does come into play in our conversations. You know, there are times when we're going through a book of the Bible, and you know, I'll bust out the blue letter Bible app to look up something because we're talking about a verse, and it's like, well, what does that word really mean? You know, what does that mean for us as men? And there have been plenty of times when I've been able to bring that in, or things that you and I have studied through an abidable study um or that method. I've been able to bring that knowledge and that wisdom in, which I wouldn't have been able to do before, especially if I just had read through things and oh, this is what that means. And that was because that's what it meant to me at one point, and that was in my own wisdom, but I didn't do any sort of study on commentary or cross-references or anything like that. So it's been very cool to see that that's able I'm able to do that more often now, where oh, that reminds me of this verse. And then you say that and somebody goes, Oh wow, you know, that's really good. Like I didn't I didn't know about that verse, I didn't see it that way. It like that speaks to me today. I think it just goes back to the previous question. Like, we are meant to live in community, and we've got different experiences, different knowledge, different understanding of things, different wisdom. And when we can get together and share what we're learning and encourage other people, and then point out things that hey, maybe you have never, you know, read this first or didn't know what that meant. Stuff like that, I think, is just very cool. So um absolutely, would it be good for men in small groups? Definitely. And even if you're not doing it in a small group, you're doing it yourself, it's it's going to come into play in terms of how you participate in those groups too.
Kate:As you're talking, it m reminded me of something that I wanted to circle back on from last week. And I know we'll probably touch on it again in our last episode on the church, hurt, healing, and hope. That episode uh will be episode number 70, uh, two episodes from now. But I wanted to also mention uh that I've heard different theories or opinions on this. I'd be interested to see what you think that the most important thing that you're looking for in a church is a strong children's ministry where the gospel is preached, you know, over morality, being a good person, like that that kids from the beginning are being shown that they need Jesus, who Jesus is, why Jesus matters, and that it's not just a book about Bible stories, but it's helping them to understand what the Bible is and how to study the Bible and all of that. Okay. So I've heard children's ministry is most important, but I've also heard men's, like not necessarily a formal men's ministry, but just who the men are in the church. And I guess, yes, what's available to men in terms of like fellowship, community, like men's groups, men's leadership opportunities. And I would say as a wife, that we have been very fortunate to be in a church for a very long time that has solid men who have come alongside you early on with a very clear mentoring and coaching program, as well as just men who have loved you well, who have modeled what it looks like. You know, they they're they're older, they've gone before you, they've been married longer, have modeled what it looks like, you know, where it is cool to be a man who loves the Lord unabashedly, wholeheartedly, who serves well, who leads well, who is a humble servant leader who, like we talked about last week, loves his wife as Christ loves the church. And I think that a church, what's most important for a family is to find a church where man is going to have other men to come alongside him in really important biblical ways. What would you say?
Jason:I think I agree if we're talking about the the different programs at the church.
Kate:It doesn't even have to necessarily be formal programs. It just means I just mean like, you know, if you're in a life group, the men in the life group, you can tell, are walking with Jesus, they're leading with, you know, they're they're they're walking the talk that they love God, they love his word, because then all of that trickles down into the family. Like you could have a great kids' ministry, but if there's not, you know, if you're bringing your husband to a church and he doesn't, there's nothing being modeled for him and no men who are going to come alongside him and love him well, serve him well.
Jason:I think it comes down to is it a church that's preaching the Bible? Of course. If you strip everything else away, if what's coming from the the pastor, what's coming from the pulpit, what's coming from the stage, what's being taught throughout the church is biblical, then I I don't want to say it doesn't matter if you have a good kids' ministry or women's ministry or men's ministry or life groups or you know, whatever, food bank, homeless outreach. But I think if you can only pick the one, then it's we faithfully preach the Bible each and every week in everything that we do, then that's gonna bear results. But then yeah, I would say, you know, if you have a church that doesn't have men who are living that way and who are excited to demonstrate that and to mentor other people and lead well, lead their families, that's critical in a church. I think there are some churches just like you said, there are some people that say the most important thing is uh a thriving kids ministry. And I think that's incredibly important and critical. But some of those churches that have the quote unquote best kids ministry might be the ones who are a little bit light in the other areas and so they've got a really colorful, great entrance to the kids, great programs, the kids are super excited, but then where do they go once they grow up? And vice versa, you may have another church that has no kids ministry and it just dies out because none of the kids want to be there because it's it's just a terrible culture, there's nothing for them. But I think if you're faithfully preaching the Bible and there's a authentic hunger for the word and holding to what the Bible says and following that, then you're going to have those programs as an outpouring. You're gonna have the strong men's groups and men in your church, you're gonna have you know, thriving kids' ministry and women's ministry because people are living out the gospel in an authentic way. So I don't know if that answers the question, but I think it's a yes to both of those.
Kate:We can and we can we're gonna get thankfully, we're gonna get to talk more about the criteria for choosing a church, and you are definitely spot on that most important is that the Bible is being preached from the pulpit. But I just was asking that question for you because the second part of my question was just about how is how for wives can we encourage our men without nagging? And we touched on that a little bit last week in terms of like I don't want to repeat what we already talked about last week, but I I brought that up because I think that in addition to the wife walking with Jesus, loving Jesus, abiding in the Word, and letting God transform her in ways that overflow in how she serves and loves her husband, in addition to that is the idea of being in a church where other men can come alongside him. Because there have been things that you have heard from other men in the church that the Lord used differently than had I been the one to say it. And that's a beautiful thing. And it's why we need each other. It's why our whole season, when we were gone from church, struggling so deeply, we were missing that kind of fellowship and relationship with people. You know, the idea is about knowing and being known, people who know you and who can come alongside you and say, Hey man, what are you doing? Like, or you can come to them and say, I have no clue what I'm doing. Okay, let's move on to the next one.
Jason:How can I get more comfortable in my prayer time?
Kate:I would say that it's really important to remember that conversation with God is like talking to a friend. He is holy and we ought to fear him in the turn in terms of respecting him and having awe of him. And the more you abide in the word, the more that flows naturally because you're getting a correct picture of who he is. So the way that you approach him and the way that you talk to him will be, you know, appropriately holy and reverent. But at the same time, he calls us his friend and he loves us and he tells us to come to him when we're weary and burdened and tired. And our prayers don't have to be fancy, though he did teach us how to pray. So the Lord's prayer is a great place to start, but help is also a great prayer that he answers and that he hears uh when we cry out to him. The Bible repeatedly says that he hears when we cry out to him. And not only does he hear, but he responds. It's an active um hearing, it's hearing and responding, hearing and doing where he comes to our rescue. So I would say, you know, abide in the word. It'll naturally flow out of you. And also go to the Psalms. If you want models for how to pray, or if you just want actual words to pray, then pray the Psalms. It will transform your prayer time. Uh, and then my final tip would just be to maybe get in the practice of journaling, writing out your prayers. If you have a hard time focusing, like I do, I it's hard for me to sit still. I lose my train of thought. So journaling is a great way for me to pray. I'm gonna ask you the next one. How do you know which resources to trust or use? There's so much out there that the process can get overwhelming.
Jason:Yeah, I think it's a great question because it it can get overwhelming because there is so much and it's probably just gonna get more and more overwhelming. Or or not get more and more overwhelming, but feel like it if you're just trying to look at everything in one shot. So I think it's just starting small. Finding whether it's people that you trust or seeing what other people are using that they really love, and just trying that one thing. Because I think what can happen is okay, so I'm gonna get a you know, set of commentaries, I'm gonna get a you know, encyclopedia and a dictionary and you know, all these books, and then I'm gonna lay them all out, and then well, I don't have time. If I try to do all of these things, it's gonna take me three hours a day, and so then I just don't do it. You know, starting small, finding finding something that's working, get consistent with that, and then supplement and then see. And it just depends what works for you. I mean, I think as as long as uh you're doing your research and you're you're in community with people to be checking to see like is this accurate? Is this a good resource? If it is, if it's biblical and you like it and your relationship with Jesus is thriving and the Holy Spirit speaking to you through it, then use that thing. It doesn't have to it can be something from the 1600s. It doesn't have to be a new tool, it doesn't have to be anything fancy, it doesn't have to look like anybody else. So I I would just say, yeah, just what works for you, start small and then add as it makes sense. Don't try to start with too much at the beginning, because I think that's where it gets really overwhelming is by the sheer volume of it.
Kate:I think I get overwhelmed hearing this question as like a teacher because I am like, oh, I don't want them, you know, to I worry because I I know there's a lot of heretical teaching out there, and there's uh a lot of pastors who are wolves in sheep's clothing, who lead their flocks astray and who, you know, say things that sound good and they're leading people straight off a cliff into hell. It's it's this is a scary question to me for that reason. And I I had to remind myself that when I started out, you know, when we first started coming to a church where the Bible was really being preached, I remember hearing friends talking about resources and what's good and what's bad, and I didn't know those things. And it took time. It took time for me being around people who were solid in scripture and being in a church where the Bible was preached and taught and the gospel was central and trial and error and time with wiser, more mature believers than me. So I think your first point was so important, which is to ask somebody that you trust. And if you if you don't know, then email us at hello at Abidible.com. We would like to be those people for you to help sort of goalkeep some of the resources that are out there. There are religions that say that they are Christian religions, like Mormonism, and it is not a Christian religion. It's a heretical religion that teaches things that are antithetical to the Bible. Uh, and sometimes the searches that you are looking for, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the top hits on Google, for example. And so if you don't know, find someone you can trust who knows the Bible, who's solid, or email us. We would be happy to help you point you in the direction. The resources in blue lettered Bible are generally really good resources. Bible Project is a great resource. And the Gospel Coalition, there are certain pastors that are great and have been solid for many years. Now that can get into a whole nother conversation about who thinks who is good and not. And that's a conversation maybe for a different day. But I am just gonna pray in Jesus' name that he, through the power of his Holy Spirit, will give you wisdom and discernment. And maybe it just starts with the awareness of knowing not to trust every single thing that pops up in a search, that not every resource is reliable. And so, like Jason said, start small, start with one that you know you can trust, one commentary that is biblical, and um go from there. So you have the last question.
Jason:What is the best way to use the studies and products you've created to include children? Could they be used as church curriculum, especially for teens? And then they said examples.
Kate:Yeah, I feel like this could be a whole nother podcast episode. I do have a podcast episode called How to Talk to Your Children About God. And so I can link that in this episode description. So go ahead and look for that. That might be a helpful thing. But I will say, in terms of abidable, that on the most basic level, you doing the study yourself, you being in the word yourself, you saying your scripture out loud, your kids will hear you and they will take interest in what you're doing and you can talk to them about what you're learning. And they will. Kids are like sponges. It's so cool that they hear you. And plus, not just the fact that they're sponges. God's word is alive and active, and the Holy Spirit wants to draw them to himself through what you're learning and what you're doing. So the first most basic, simple example is that, you know, as Jason and I were studying, Liam heard, Liam engaged, Liam asked questions. And that is an informal, beautiful way to involve your kids in the study of scripture, in particular in this case, as it refers to this answer with the Bible. That's how you can use a Bible in that way. You know, think about how Moses talks about teaching your children, you know, this is just telling the stories to your children and your children's children and remembering them to generations to come. And there was no formal, most of them didn't even know how to read or write at that period of time, didn't have access to paper and pens or computers like we do. And so if they could do it, we certainly can do it too. And some of it is just the natural overflow. We do have a God is one kids study. It has two age groups that you can check out online to see what might be a better fit for your kids than to have them doing some lettering, some cross-referencing, some of the same basic skills that we do in Abidible. That is currently our only kids study that's available. That's something that we would love to grow in in the future. But for now, we just have one available. I do think, in terms of this last question with teens, that teens, even, you know, 12 and up, are absolutely capable of doing the adult studies at their own pace. They don't have to do, you know, 10 cross-references. Have them do one, have them look up one commentary quote, get them in the word, studying in this way so that when they leave you, they will know what to do with their Bibles themselves. I think absolutely your teenagers can use and and your your youth groups can use the Abidible Studies to um learn how to abide in God's word themselves. So we're gonna wrap it up there for today. I'm super appreciative. It's kind of late at night tonight. We have had a very long week getting back to school and me kind of getting back to life normal. Jason worked all day, and I super appreciate you being on again, and we'll have you back on next week.
Jason:Looking forward to it.
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