In this episode, Jeff Norris talks with Jen Wilkin, Bible teacher, author of Ten Words to Live By, Women of the Word, and Bible teacher from Dallas, Texas. They discuss biblical literacy in today's church and what's at stake when believers don't know the scriptures. Jen shares how we can develop rhythms and habits to become a student of the Word.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• How did Jen become impassioned about Bible literacy? Have you seen a decrease in biblical literacy in today’s church?

• What is the real loss when believers don’t know the scriptures? What’s at stake?

• How do we read the Bible without a hyper individualistic mindset?

• For someone who admits they don’t know the bible as well as they need to, where might they begin?

• What rhythms and habits must one adopt to become a student of the Word?

Scripture References:

• Romans 12:1-2

Related Resources:

• Read Jen's articles at The Gospel Coalition

• Get Jen's best-selling books:

  • Women of the Word

  • None Like Him

  • In His Image

  • Ten Words to Live By

• Pre-order Jen's upcoming book: You Are a Theologian: An Invitation to Know and Love God Well (releases July 18, 2023)

• Check out the Perimeter Bookstore podcast page for books mentioned this season

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There's an incongruence in the title of this series: by separating our faith from everything else in life, it ceases to be true, biblical faith. The very essence of faith affects every aspect of our lives. In this episode, Jeff Norris and Laura Story Elvington talk with Collin Hansen, vice president for content and editor-in-chief of The Gospel Coalition, and executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. They discuss what faith looks like in today's culture, how to reach the next generation who may be disillusioned with the idea of faith, and how media plays a role in our faith, for better or worse.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What does faith look like in today's culture? Describe this cultural moment.

• How do we reach the next generation who may feel disillusioned with "faith?"

• What role does media play in our faith, for better or worse?

Related Resources:

• Visit The Gospel Coalition website

• Learn more about The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics

• Get Collin's latest book, Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

• Check out the Perimeter Bookstore podcast page for books mentioned this season

• Subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the notification bell to get notified of new episodes!

By Design is the focus of our episodes for Digging Deeper released in the summer of 2022. In this series, Lead Pastor Jeff Norris sits down and talks with multiple guests in the areas of marriage, singleness, and God's design for sexuality. In this episode, part two of the conversation with Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn, we dig deeper into the heart questions of both man and woman and how we see them play out even in the garden in the book Genesis. Check out episode notes at https://www.perimeter.org/DD-E23-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

By Design is the focus of our episodes for Digging Deeper released in the summer of 2022. In this series, Lead Pastor Jeff Norris, sits down and talks with multiple guests in the areas of marriage, singleness and God's design for sexuality. In today's episode of the Digging Deeper podcast, we sit down with Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn on the topic of marriage.

Check out episode notes at https://www.perimeter.org/DD-E22-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

By Design is the focus of our episodes for Digging Deeper releasing in the August of 2022. In this series, Lead Pastor Jeff Norris sits down and talks with multiple guests in the areas of marriage, singleness, and God’s design for sexuality. We hope listening to this series encourages you as we look at God’s design, the culture’s view, and the Church’s response.

In this episode of By Design, Jeff sits down with Scott Sauls, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN. He is a husband, father, and author. Scott and Jeff talk about what it looks like to give Christ-centered and loving responses to hard questions Christians are facing today around sexuality and God’s design. Scott’s latest book is Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen.

Check out episode notes at https://www.perimeter.org/DD-E21-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

By Design is the focus of our episodes for Digging Deeper releasing in the summer of 2022. In this series, Lead Pastor, Jeff Norris, sits down and talks with multiple guests in the areas of marriage, singleness and God’s design for sexuality. We hope listening to this series encourages you as we look at God’s design, the culture’s design and the Church’s response.

In this second part of Jeff’s conversation with Nancy Pearcey, the two continue their discussion on God’s design for sexuality and how we can engage in conversations in a loving way while being faithful to the truth.

Check out episode notes at https://www.perimeter.org/DD-E20-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

By Design is the focus of our episodes for Digging Deeper releasing in the summer of 2022. In this series, Lead Pastor, Jeff Norris, sits down and talks with multiple guests in the areas of marriage, singleness and God’s design for sexuality. We hope listening to this series encourages you as we look at God’s design, the culture’s design and the Church’s response.

In this first episode of the "By Design" series, Jeff sits down with author Nancy Pearcey to discuss God’s design for sexuality and how we can understand biblical principles and foundations to be able to engage in these conversations.

Check out episode notes at https://www.perimeter.org/DD-E19-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

Today Jeff sits down with Dr. Michael Reeves in part two of the Advent series Digging Deeper podcast. They dig deep into the doctrine of the incarnation and examine what it means for us, as believers, for the God of the universe to come down to earth to live and walk among us, and even more so, why should we care about that part of the story.

Check out episode notes at perimeter.org/DD-E18-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

In this special episode of the Digging Deeper podcast-Advent edition, we talk about the implications and practicalities of the incarnation. Jeff Norris sits down with Dr. Bryan Chapell, Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in America, to unpack the very truths and realizations of why Jesus came to us as a babe in a manger; to both save us and to love us as God only can.

Big Takeaway: Our prayer for you this Advent season is that God would move and stir within us the affections for Him, that we would experience the awe and wonder of what God has done for us through Christ in the incarnation.

Check out episode notes at perimeter.org/DD-E17-Notes. The video of this episode is available on the Perimeter Church YouTube channel.

One of the main emphases of this most recent sermon series, Worship Together, has been the regathering process of the Church as we reflect on where we’ve been over the past year through the pandemic. In this episode of Digging Deeper, Jeff Norris leads the conversation on why it’s important for us to gather together as God’s people on a weekly basis. Check out episode notes at perimeter.org/DD-E16-notes.