Lisa Harper

I mean, massive train wrecks.

And then I'll get tickled.

I'm like, oh, well.

It's kind of both and.

I mean, sometimes I'll get, you know, we're in a series on ACTS.

um, can you, can you teach on Acts chapter eight?

I'm like, Ooh, I love, I love that.

And just cause I'm old as dirt, I'm 62 and I've spent, you know, so I don't, I'm,

Like your dad, in that I have fallen more in love with Jesus the longer he's allowed me to walk with him.

And one of my favorite living scholars, a mentor of mine, Dr. Craig Keener, he says if you get out of the Bible what you expect to get out of the Bible, you need to change your expectations because it's always bigger, it's always better.

And you'll read something, John 4, The Woman at the Well, and you've read it a thousand times.

You've heard it a thousand times.

You've exegeted the Greek.

You've filled in the blanks.

But then you'll see a wrinkle and you'll go, oh, I didn't know the word he was using for worship is proskenuo, to move forward and to kiss.

And she'd kissed all these frogs in her search for a prince.

And Jesus used a word that would have been so pertinent to her.

And you'll see something that's fresh.

So I really don't.

And every book I'm studying at the time becomes my least, my favorite book.