Thanks for joining us again on the podcast as we enter the final weeks of our Bible reading in 2024.

Let me know what you think.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Did you join us this year?

Did it encourage you to hang with it in getting through the whole Bible in 2024?

Perhaps this was your first time reading the whole Bible in a year.

Maybe you started out and dropped out. Whatever happened, I'd love to know how we can better

serve your commitment to reading the whole Bible in 2025. We may do this again. I thought

the Navigator's Bible reading plan really works well as a substructure to organize our Bible

questions throughout the year and to map them

on to our current reading.

But you tell me, email me your thoughts at Ask Pastor John at Desiring God.org and put

Bible reading in the subject line.

I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Speaking of using that plan to structure our Bible questions, if you are reading the Bible

together with us this year, this weekend we read Ezekiel 24 to 28. And in those chapters,

we meet a stunning text, one that leads to this question from a listener named Matthew.

Pastor John, thank you for this podcast and for your faithful model of ministry over the years.

As a young preacher, there's a text in the Old Testament that stops me in my tracks and makes me pause in my Bible reading every time. And it's the account of the death of Ezekiel's beloved wife in Ezekiel 24 verses 15 to 18. There are things in this text that do not relate or that seem too specific to translate broadly.

He's a prophet.

I'm not.

He was called to not weep over his wife.

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