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Speaker 2: Hey friend, do you ever feel like the busyness of

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Speaker 2: life makes it hard to slow down and truly connect

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Speaker 2: with Jesus. Do your priorities and passions feel jumbled and

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Speaker 2: out of whack? Then join me this summer on my

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Speaker 2: podcast How to Study the Bible as we Dive into

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Speaker 2: Spiritual Rhythms, a six week series that will lead us

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Speaker 2: through six spiritual rhythms to help us slow down and

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Speaker 2: make space for Jesus in the busyness of everyday life.

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Speaker 2: To guide us, I've put together a free downloadable six

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Speaker 2: week study available at nicoleunis dot com slash Spiritual Practices.

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Speaker 2: The study will walk us through God's word as we

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Speaker 2: learn to embrace daily practices that draw us closer to Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Each week on the podcast, we'll walk through one spiritual

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Speaker 2: rhythm that helps us discover how to spend intentional time

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Speaker 2: with God, align our passions and balance our priorities, and

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Speaker 2: make time and space for restfulness and celebration. Download Spiritual

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Speaker 2: Rhythms for free today at nicoleunis dot com slash Spiritual

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Speaker 2: Practices and I'll see you on How to Stay the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, Welcome back to How to Study the Bible.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Nicole Unice, and I am so excited

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Speaker 2: about a new series that we are taking on over

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Speaker 2: the summer called Spiritual Rhythms, and we've put together a

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Speaker 2: download for you so that you can actually experience and

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Speaker 2: walk through these practices with us together. You can find

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Speaker 2: that download at Nicoleunis dot com slash Spiritual Practices, and

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Speaker 2: we've also put it a link in the bottom of

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Speaker 2: this podcast so that you can grab that. But you're

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Speaker 2: gonna love actually walking through these rhythms with us, not

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Speaker 2: just listening to the podcast, but really walking them through.

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Speaker 2: So go grab that download Nicole Unis dot com slash

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Speaker 2: Spiritual Practices. And if you're enjoying the podcast, would you

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Speaker 2: like it or even leave us a review? Which just

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Speaker 2: feels like so much to ask, but yet you guys

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Speaker 2: do it. You leave us reviews. It's so sweet and

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Speaker 2: for that purpose and reason, I also want to invite

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Speaker 2: back Rev.

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Speaker 2: She sees us on the show. I don't know why,

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Speaker 2: I just said that, like a game show. I wanted

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so super fun.

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Speaker 2: Guys. You have been leaving us some comments. You guys

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Speaker 2: have been emailing me. Who's Rachel, where's her website? Et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Rachel is just an awesome saint who is leading the

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Speaker 2: sweet students of Montree College. She does not have a

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Speaker 2: website or a podcast. This is the podcast that she's

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Speaker 2: love that you guys left us. One of you just

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Speaker 2: left us a comment over on the podcast and you said,

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Speaker 2: love this news series a great addition to my Christian journey.

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Speaker 2: Nicole and Rev. Rachel should consider having an ongoing podcast. Well,

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Speaker 2: thank you, miss pt Why they are insightful, funny and engaging.

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Speaker 2: We're really laughing at ourselves right now. This is really.

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Speaker 2: We do really want to be helpful to you. And

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Speaker 2: you can tell this is genuine joy that we have

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Speaker 2: because we both love the Bible, we love Bible study,

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Speaker 2: Right pace creates right perspective. The right pace in life

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Speaker 3: Wat shall I do it? Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.

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Speaker 2: you can't produce a thing. Okay, right? What does this

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Speaker 3: What really strikes me is what kind of God's priorities

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean outside. Like if you just removed everything

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Speaker 2: to I think what our heart's deepest desire really is

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Speaker 2: is what we're going to invite you guys to do,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I if you haven't figured out already, I'm

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Speaker 3: till they find their rest in You.

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Speaker 2: So beautiful son.

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Speaker 5: So good man, we don't make it like they used to.

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Speaker 2: Well, I was talking with a well, maybe we'll close

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Speaker 2: looked at these each other and said, they're here. They're

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Speaker 2: just they're not on Instagram, like you're not going to

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Speaker 2: find them. I'm like, they're They're living quiet, beautiful lives

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Speaker 2: That is the invitation, and it is an invitation for

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Speaker 2: all of us. It doesn't matter if you are driving

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Speaker 2: no matter what you're doing in your life, the invitation

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Speaker 2: that's the invitation of this series. So we're really excited

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Speaker 2: about it. Once again, guys. Nicoleunis dot com slash spiritual practices.

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Speaker 2: give you these questions that we asked you today, as

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