The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Book of You: Discovering Your God Story by Ericka P Greene

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

The Book of You: Discovering Your God Story by Ericka P Greene https://www.amazon.com/Book-You-Discovering-Your-Story/dp/1647734347 Erickagreeneministries.com “No matter how your life story may read, God has another story, a true story that was written long before you were even born. Better yet, God wants to co-author that story with you.” The Book of You is for the woman who has been broken by life, the woman who struggles with what God says about her and what she has experienced, or how she views herself. The book takes you on a journey through the interwoven stories of five women in the Bible who were broken and discarded yet valued to be included in the lineage of Jesus Christ. Through the pages of their stories and others’ stories, Jesus wants to reconcile the seeming contradiction of your life story and the events that have left you feeling alone, without value or purpose. He wants to reveal your true identity and purpose throughout the pages of your life so that you can stand at the last chapter of your life having become who you are created to be and fulfill what you were created to do.

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Welcome to the show, Erica. How are you? I'm doing great, Chris. So glad to be here on this Memorial Day weekend. Yeah, it's a weekend. Wait, they made me work on the weekend. Oh, it's probably maybe God's work, as you would say. So give us dot com's websites. Where can people find you on the interwebs? Currently, I'm working on my website. We have a YouTube channel, which you can find my channel with not only devotionals for the Book of You and we'll be having a Bible study coming out in July. So if you go to YouTube and you search Book of You Bible study with Erica Green, you can find me.

In addition, the book is found on Amazon as well as Barnes & Noble's website under Book of You, discovering your God's story, Erica Green. So give us a 30,000 over you. What's aside your book? So this book is really about discovering your identity and purpose. And I don't think there are enough books or podcasts or messages regarding that. But it really came out of a season in my life where everything went wrong. Betrayal, foundations broke.

And all of my efforts to make life right and my strength failed. And basically I went on a journey where I wanted to know, how do I reconcile what God says about me in the Bible? You are blessed and highly favored. I promise to give you a future and a hope with what happens in our lives. So I realized that everybody, but as a woman, so I really directed it at women, but it's really for everybody. This book really addresses how do I reconcile that I'm still in the will of God, that I'm still called, that I still have value when everything in my life says the opposite. And so finding the truth of that in the middle of destruction because so many people fall away from God,

reject God, or just feel less than because these circumstances, many of which are not within their control, define them. Ah, yeah. And so people find a kind of a crisis of faith maybe at that point, would you say? Absolutely. And I went to the Bible. of course the Bible is full of people read and study, but also this is a way to bring it to people to say that your story is like so many people's story in the Bible.

And as women, specifically, a lot of times people can't find themselves in the Bible. It's really about Moses and Abraham and David and Solomon. But what caught my attention first was in the book of Matthew in the first chapter, the first chapter is dedicated to the genealogy, the ancestry of Jesus. Christ. Now, when you read that, it's quite boring. Your does him, and he beget he and he and he beget he and he he is in the Old Testament. We're like, oh, my gosh, I can't, I don't, I don't understand why this is included, but it's included for a reason. So when you go to the genealogy of Jesus Christ, what stands out to you, which is different than the genealogies in the Old Testament,

is that there are women's names in there. And understand that women in that time really didn't have the right to vote, rarely could own. property couldn't even sit with the men in the temple in the synagogue of the time yet and weren't included in the genealogy of families but in this genealogy of Christ to get to the point were five women's names and what stood out to me and what was the inspiration for this book is that these women's lives were not glorious they were not the pastor's wife they were not the missionary they were not a martyr. These were women who were harlots, who were raped, who were abused, who were the least in their community,

who were widowed and poverty stricken, and yet God saw fit to place these women's in the bloodline of the Savior of the world. That alone teaches us that there's no circumstance in life that that that compromises who we are in Christ and everything we go through can be used for God's will. Now, you tell the stories of five women in the Bible who are broken, discarded. Do you want to talk to us through some of them or talk about the name? I don't know if you can give us the names of all five? Sure, sure. It's those five names in that genealogy. And so the book is structured that way. There are five sections. And each section has three to four chapters. So the first section

revolves around what is your name. And that's based on the woman Tamar. She's in the Old Testament. She's the daughter-in-law of one of the sons of the tribe of Israel, Judah, from whom Jesus Christ comes from. He comes from that lineage. And yet, her husband dies. Her second husband dies. And the father says, oh, you can marry the third son. He's a baby. Wait till he grows up. And the father says, I'm not letting you marry any one of my sons because every time you marry them, they die. Oh, yeah, she kind of got a pattern there going. And so for a woman at that time who had nothing but what she had through her father or her husband, Tamar was anything but a bride.

In fact, I called her poison. That's how she saw herself to me. But yet God chose her to be the mother of the genealogy of Jesus Christ. So that first section is, what is your name? And although Tamar was used and abused and neglected, her name means palm tree. If you've ever been in hurricanes, you understand that palm trees can survive anything, yet they stand. And so that's an example of how Tamar's story, she didn't know that she was made to withstand the severest consequences, yet stand enough to lend the strength to who would become Jesus Christ, at least in his bloodline. So just to go through quickly, the second section is really based on the second woman in God's genealogy, who is Rahab.

She's actually not even a Jew. She's not even of the original bloodline. But when Israel was about to enter the promised land, she was a harlot. She was what you said you would call a madam in today's time. She basically was a businesswoman in this heathen nation. And she knew who was coming and going. And she protected the spies of Israel before they conquered that that name. nation, Jericho. And because of that, they saved her. She saved her whole family. She married into the nation of Israel and she's in the bloodline of Jesus Christ. So even for someone who comes out of a world that has nothing to do with Christ, who doesn't even know God, who's done everything but what is right. God can still bring you into the family and use your gifts and talents that you've used for wrong. And in his hands, your life can become part of a greater story.

And so the other three, I'll just quickly mention. The third one is, who do you love? And that really revolves around Ruth, who loved to the point of death and ended up becoming a mother. The next one is Bathsheba, who lost her husband, committed adultery, was taken advantage of, and the promise her for her life was taken. And so hers is, how have you been positioned? Some people are in prisons, prisons of disease, prison, real prisons. Who are you?

what is your purpose in that prison? And Bathsheba's section talks to that. And lastly, is the mother of Jesus who is Mary. And that section revolves around who do you believe? So Mary had a promise that she would have the son who would save the world, that he would be a king and his kingdom would have no end. Yet she witnessed him be rejected. She witnessed him be abused.

She witnessed him being tortured and killed. so she had to hold on to her belief in what God told her when she was pregnant. And so all of these women can teach us that in the middle of disregard, in the middle of poor choices, using your talents for everything else, in the midst of loving and sacrificing and getting nothing back, in the midst of being imprisoned by circumstances that are not of your own, the midst of holding on to a promise of God when everything, else goes against that promise and trusting that God will make your story good.

These five women prove that. And I also talk about many other men and women in the Bible. I hope that wasn't too long, but it gives a very synopsis of the book. And what was the proponent that made you want to write the book? Was there a moment where there was an aha moment where you said, I need to write a book about this? Okay. So, yes, I went through my own struggle and that inspired me to study. And then basically I had all of a sudden I developed this hardened burden for other people.

When you go through something and God reveals what's in you that needs to be healed, sometimes it could become the burden that you have for other people. You know what I'm saying? And so all of a sudden I began to just want to share what God had showed me to other people and specifically other women. So I started a Bible study in my home. And as the Bible study went every meeting, I created a chapter. So for every Bible study session, I wrote the book as I developed the Bible study. And it was at that point that I said, this is a book because I was writing it for the Bible study. And then the Bible study ended and the women became lifelong friends and it changed our trajectory.

I did it again with a group of women who were in a homeless shelter or dire circumstances. And it resonated with them so deeply. I said, this needs to be put in a format that can go farther than just me in a Bible study. Yeah. Yeah. And then everyone can share it and stuff. What do you find people or maybe women to get from reading these stories? So what I've heard is that, and I realize it may not be for everyone.

And I'm just honest that way. I think you have to be at a point in your life where you want to deal with the truth. So I find that the women who really appreciated this is that it gets right to the things that people don't often talk about in a church setting. It gets to the trauma of life. It gets to the sin of life. It gets to the shame of life. It gets to the nitty gritty that people in a Bible study setting or a church setting may not feel comfortable showing the dirtiness of life because we all want to look good and seem good and like we have it all together. So the feedback I've gotten is that it really gets to the heart of the matter, the things that you struggle with, my value, my anger with others, my anger with God.

and it really gets to that level where we struggle so that God can get in and speak to it and say, let me give you my perspective of how valuable you are. Let me give you my perspective of how I can use that. Let me give you my perspective of how I've refined you in the fire. And so the feedback has been, it's given a voice to what they didn't feel comfortable speaking. And it's touched on an area that maybe they worked really hard to cover up. and now they can begin to heal from those issues. Healing is always good.

That's really important. It's really important. Now, is this the first book you've ever written? It is. I'm not an author by career. I'm a medical doctor. Oh, really? Uh-huh.

And yeah. And so what was it like to take on the daunting task of publishing your first book? It's still daunting. As I write the second book, even doing this podcast is daunting. It's not my bandwidth. I'm not tech savvy. I'm not social media savvy. And I didn't know the process.

How do you find an agent? I didn't find an agent. How do you? I sent it out. And so I just decided, let me self-publish. And Trilogy Publishing Company, which comes out of TBN, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, which is a very global Christian media network, has an arm for publishing. Oh, wow.

So I stepped out on faith, and they helped me publish my book. They allowed me to, it got onto Amazon. I have an audiobook for a book on Audible, so you can go to Audible and download a wonderful audiobook of it. And they featured it on Facebook and their Facebook channel and their Instagram channel. So I'm very thankful to them for giving me an avenue for publishing. For my second book, we'll see. I'm asking God to lead and open up and provide a venue.

But right now I'm writing out of obedience. Oh, okay. So you do plan on writing one, or you're, you've kind of. one you're working on. Can you tease out anything on that book? What to anticipate there? Yes, sir. This book is not just for women. It's for anybody. And it's about the patience of the saints. And this subheading is the testimony of waiting. And what really stood out to me is that when the Bible talks about the patience of the saints, it talks about an enduring patience. And I'm not sure many Western civilized Christians understand what that really means. But as our world is turning,

ever more dark, ever more confusing and chaotic. I think it's important for Christians today to understand that part of our life is waiting and waiting in a wilderness where there may be suffering, where it may be lost, where we'll have to endure. And I really wanted to explore what the patience of the saint, what their testimony, what it requires to endure, as Christ said, those will receive the crown who endure until the end. What does it mean to really endure? And so this book is really for me. As most things I do, it's really to bless me to make me understand, but obviously it's used for other people. I want to know what God expects of me in these last days. And I think that the church, at least in Western, in the Western world, have been so

satiated and so comfortable that we've lost our battle, our battle gear, our battle gear, I should say, for what this leads last days will entail. So that's the book. It's for everyone. It's for every Christian who wants to face these last days in the glory of God and with the strength to endure, no matter what happens to us. And plenty of stories and journeys and lessons of life that one can learn. Were these five women in the where you feature in the Bible, were they, did they stand out in the, in the story of the Bible? Or did you take a look at their story and try and try and push their story. characters out and talk, go deeper into what their experience was what was going on in the story that maybe wasn't really covered in the Bible, maybe.

Thank you for that, Chris. The answer is yes and yes. So, you know, there wasn't a lot necessarily written about these women. One of them had a whole chapter, Ruth. Esther has a chapter, a whole book. I'm sorry, they both have books. But otherwise, the women in the Bible don't have enough. You have to glean from that. So it was really me and Holy Spirit writing this book. And although I'm a medical doctor. I do love to write. I do love to create. So basically, I gave the women a voice. And I also have available monologues for tomorrow. I have women, my friends who I wrote out a monologue for Tamar. I wrote out a monologue for Bathsheba. If they were women today standing before us, what would they say about their story? And I believe that the Holy Spirit gave me a revelation about the

personality, the emotions, the beliefs that these women carried, the trauma that they carried. And what I found in the story that God gave me about them, it revealed that we are all the same, whether it was 3,000 or 2,000 years ago, we are still as women and men facing these same emotions in psychology. So it was wonderful to be able to make these women real to me. And God gave me a revelation of their personalities, their strengths, their weaknesses, and their struggles. And yes, I did bring a story to them that any woman or man could relate to. With the people in the Bible and stuff, it can be hard to figure some of this stuff out because some of the stories, they glean over different parts and things that they do.

But no, women were a big contributor to the Bible. Technically, the Bible wouldn't be there if wasn't for women. We all come from women, folks. when it comes down to it. Without them, we're a little, it's all coming to an end really quickly. But discovering your God's story, I guess it's important in, how would you describe that? What is one's God's story? When Psalms 139 and 16, the Bible says that every member of you, every part of you, was already written in God's book. And if we go to 139 and 16, this is another inspiration, this book, that there's already a book of us written in heaven.

God is the author and the finish of our faith. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. The work is already completed in heaven. We're just walking it out on earth in time. And so from a 30,000-foot view, as you mentioned at the beginning of this interview, is that the 30,000-foot view is that your book, your story is written. And the antagonist and the protagonist may be different. and the hills and the valleys may be different, but at the end of it, only God can make the story good.

And because He's God, he can take the horribleness of life, the things that you think disqualify you, even the things that you feel permanently prevent you from coming into whatever promise God has for you. God can do anything and he can take your story in all the dirty and the dynamic, all the good and the bad. And he can weave it in a way where at the last day of your life and as you stand before the Lord, your story is a glorious story of redemption of purpose and identity. And the identity and purpose he has for each of us, he never takes back. And so in his hands, there's nothing you can't do that he can't make good. He says, all things work together for the good to those who love the Lord and who are called according to his purpose. the key into discovering who you are and God is to align yourself to God.

And to give the pieces and the parts and the brokenness of you into his hand and say, I trust you. I believe in you. I will worship you no matter if I don't understand knowing that only you can make my story good. Samson and Delilah, they made movies on it, right? He was the strongest man and he would tear lions apart. before he was born, he was given a purpose. Before he was born, God said he is going to destroy the Philistines. And don't cut his hair and he should not touch dead things and he should not drink wine because I've separated him for a special purpose.

But Samson ended up doing all of those things. He touched dead things. He got drunk and through parties. He liked the women. And it was ultimately his downfall. And in our natural view, we could say, He just forfeited his whole purpose. He's everything but this consecrated, appointed person.

He's a partier and a fighter, right? Yeah. But do you know that when he was captured because a woman deceived him, his weakness, but when he was captured and his eyes were gouged out and he was chained to the temple of the same Philistines, he was born to destroy. He was no longer strong anymore. You would think his story is over. He said, Lord, I repent.

And Lord, allow me to take your glory and let me destroy these who are dishonoring you. And what he didn't accomplish in the whole of his life, the moment he aligned himself with God, not only did he destroy the Philippines and close to him, but everyone under that whole edifice, edifice, that building, he brought it down. And the Bible says he had killed more of the enemies of God than he did his whole life. In other words, he fulfilled the destiny of his life that was spoken of him before birth, although the history of his life was anything but God made it good. That's what it means to discover your God's story, that if you put it in his hands, he can redeem the time and he can make your story the glorious story he always intended it to be, but even before you were born. There you go.

Do you see future books maybe where you profile more women of Scripture? Maybe. You know what I see is since you're asking. I see my hope and it's not for ego's sake. Whatever God does with this book, I honor. And so I don't want to do it out of my own glory and that. But I do have a vision of conferences. Oh.

I have a vision of the Book of You conferences where you see a big banner. I am Tamar. I am Bathsheba. I am Mary. The conference is speakers, but intertwined between the speakers, are women sort of speaking these monologues. And I'd like to do such monologue acting, theatrical acting of these women as present-day women, not only for those five women, but for other characters in the Bible, other women, such as Leah and Rachel, the two wives of Jacob, or Esther, or. Moses's wife, Miriam, or even Zach, Zach, John the Baptist's mother, Elizabeth, I'm sorry. Other women, because I think their stories are

just as powerful. Even the little characters that are only mentioned once, like the slave girl who told, I think his name was Naiman, who had leprosy, go to the man of God so that you can be healed. She's only mentioned in literally maybe

one or two verses, but there's a story there. she was a slave girl she was Jewish and she was taking care of the the captain I believe of the Syrian army who was against Israel and the captain had horrible leprosy no one could touch him and yet she said there's a prophet of Israel who could save you as a slave girl away from her family what is her story that she could still bless the man who enslaved her to be healed true those are powerful. All of us have a part to play, whether we're the president or a pauper. When we stand for God, he can use us and we can be the seed to change a family, a generation, a community, our own families, and our lives have purpose. Your life has purpose, just by doing this, just by being a mechanism and a resource. You have no idea the reach and the seeds that are planted just because you've opened up a door an opportunity. I have no idea when you stand before God, I assume I don't know your faith.

When you stand before God and he says, this was the blessing of what you did. Yeah. It's great that people can use this to celebrate your faith. In fact, as you were talking, I was imagining you could do whole plays. You could set up a musical or just a play or even opera, ballet, if you really want to go crazy. You can set up a play on Broadway or something, telling these stories. That might be a great thing. I actually received that, Chris. I'm looking for that. Yeah.

That'd be cool. You can delve in the stories. We have a lot of historical, what do they call it on the show? Historical fiction where people take the historical figures and they map in a little bit of the characteristics of that person that they can kind of read from the knowledge that they've gained and people kind of, they all kind of have modalities and different personalities. You kind of know where some people are at. they kind of fill in the blanks, fill in the conversations, maybe those people would have. But it's still in a historical context and framed around the personality, that person, at least as far as they can understand it. A lot of those things are interesting.

What was that? What's the one big show, Hamilton? Yes. That's like a huge show, a story of a historical figure. And I'm sure maybe there might be some fictional embellishments a little bit there so they can put a story together and narrate it. But yeah, I could see that being done with this. I think there's lots of, I was. Jesus Christ Superstar was on Broadway.

But I think there's some other Bible things that have been on Broadway. And yeah, that already can get Mel Gibson to make it into a Rice movie again. You know what? You're speaking it again. You're doing exactly what I said. You were meant to do. You're speaking. You're planting seeds.

But yeah, I receive it fully. And if you want to say a quick prayer of Lord, make it happen or open up a door according to you will, I will take that, Mr. Vaugh. What else do we need to know about the stories, maybe, that I haven't asked you about? that we should fill in for the audience. So the other thing about the stories is what else I put in the book. I like to have a book that has a lot of diversity in it. And so for each story and each chapter,

I have quotes from famous people, people who have since gone, Maya Angelou, Jackie Hill Perry, even people who are not even just their stories. I have little bookmarks in the book. So these are little asides. So you're reading, and then I have a little aside called a bookmark. And for instance, I tell the story of Maya Angelou, who, who because she was accosted as a young child and the person who accosted her was removed permanently by family, she stopped talking for until she was, I think, 12 or 14 because she had the power of her words removed people permanently. Okay.

And so as a young child, she said, I can't talk. So she stopped talking. Now, from the outside, that I talk about her story because I talk about it in regards to tomorrow, where everything bad happens and you feel like you have no value, your poison. And yet in those years of solitude, she read everything. Wow. She read everything from Greek to Roman mythology, to English and foreign literature, to science and math. And then one day a teacher spoke life into her.

And all of those years of knowledge and inspiration, she became the most prolific writer and speaker of our age. Wow. See, the brokenness of that situation. So there's a bookmark. These little bookmarks are strategically placed to pull modern day stories. Bathsheba, when I talk about being imprisoned where you feel like you're helpless with your circumstances, where you're just a point. in someone else's life, how do you have purpose when you're a pawn or a prisoner of circumstances you didn't ask for? That's Bathsheba, right? And so I talk about an experiment by a professor

named Seligman. He's a psychiatrist, I believe, and he talked about the concept of learned helplessness. And so there's a bookmark with a picture of the original dog in the experiment who no matter what they did got shocked. And even when the cage door was open, they were too afraid to go in even when the shocked end because they learned to be helpless. And so I use that bookmark. So the book highlights the stories, but also it's accented with these bookmarks to bring an analogy or testimony. I talk about the pressure that makes a pearl or a diamond to talk about how the pressure

and the suffering of life. So the other thing I'd like to add is there are prayers. There's personal reflections at the end of the chapters and the sections for each topic. a person where I ask questions for people to contemplate. And then there's a prayer at the end. Lastly, I have a poem. Poems in there. So I love to write.

And there's a poem specifically about love. And if you could see how God loves you, would you do A and B? And so there's a beautiful poem. And lastly, I wrote a song called The Book of You. At the end, you can find. You can go to SoundCloud, and the QR code, and the link is there. And it's a song that sort of talks about how he's writing your story with the ink of his blood and the binder of his wood of the wood to create a story of you. So there's much more for those who read the book or listen to the book than just the writing.

There are things to ponder, to be inspired and encouraged and also poetry and a song to be blessed by. Inspiration, uplifting people, giving people hope. This is a great thing of what the book authors do. When you're writing the book, did you find that a lot of it was coming from inspiration? Did the characters maybe talk to you? Some people in novels and books, they'll have the characters talk to them, harass them, sometimes just drive them crazy to write the book. But then some others, they have to fill in those blanks and make it up,

and they know the characters. How did it come to you? I've never thought of it that way. I've never thought. I remember with Tamar, I heard her. And so when I wrote down her words and God was talking to her in this monologue and she was arguing with God, she's a tough woman, she was angry. He says, what are you talking about? I'm a perfect woman of purpose.

What are you talking about a palm tree? You're talking about trees. I'm poisoned. Did you know that? When you see me coming, they leave. Everything I touch dies. She's a real person speaking in a way that we all sometimes feel when we feel like that. So I heard her, I heard the tone of her voice.

the anger that allowed her to ask the question that sometimes people are afraid to ask God. God can handle your anger as long as you go to him and not someone else. He can handle your questions. And so I remember hearing her and feeling her emotion. And maybe it was because I had gone through what I went through, right? How could you let this happen? How could you say that I'm this when this happened? I thought I was as how I've been living for you, but you allowed this to happen to me.

Why? And I have those moments. And so I did hear her in my voice. I heard Rahab. Oh, really? A business woman, a strong woman. She was a negotiator. She was witty.

She was probably the richest woman in the city of Jericho because she not only sold those types of favors, she sold in exchange of dyes and perfumes and fabrics. She was right on the wall of Jericho. This was a woman who was not to be played with. I heard the strength and the resolve and the no nonsense of her personality. And yet when she saw the spies of Israel come through, she hid them at risk of her own life because she knew this is a business deal. I can't be stupid on.

And I heard the entrepreneurial spirit of Rahab in my voice. in my bed. And it was easy to write from them. And those are the two that stood out to me. And I took what I heard from them. And it allowed me to more easily write for the voice of Mary, the voice of Bathsheba and the voice of Ruth. I had to tap into my other sides of gentleness and vulnerability and youthful, youthful hope. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. People need this. We all fall down sometimes. We all struggle sometimes. We all wonder, what the hell's going on? That's mainly my thing in 2026. I wake up every morning and screaming, what the hell's going on? And then my dog's looking. Oh, okay. There, huskies. Anyway, they're always up to something. In fact, I woke up

last night after a nap, and my one husky puppy had torn apart a whole alpaca dryer ball. I was like about that big a round of a ball. It was alpaca fur, and you throw in the dryer, and it was my local farm and supposed to make your clothes softer and be safer than that crap that they give you and you put in that's kind of really poisonous the wax crap and so yeah i just that was my what's going on now that's a see being everyday occurrence when you have a husky puppy and and those are not small little puppies and they're not going to be small little but the beautiful dogs we have three do you have three huskies or three dogs three dogs i'm a dog me i have a french pole named tink who's more of a tank. I have an old motherly girl named Bidsey. She's in Nick's Boston and Jack Russell Terrier.

And I have my little heart dog, my Yorkie, named Tiggie, who is by my side all the time. And life is so much richer with the love of a dog. Dogs can teach us a lot about Christ, to be honest with you. Oh, really? Maybe we should make some dogs and preachers, eh, or something? Because they preach unconditional love. I know my huskies think they're God, but what's the difference? story. It might be committing some sort of sin, I think.

No matter what you do, whether you're in the mood for them or not, they always still love you and are happy to see you. They're always ready for you. And I always wonder why. I'm like, I'm really not that good of a dad. But they do get a lot of treats. In fact, my, since getting this

husky, this husky is like a bandsaw tree, tree shredder. Yeah. Just whatever you give it, it will shred. I'm sorry, I'm going to rent it out to a tree service as a employee. But yeah, so there's a lot that goes on there. It's been wonderful to have you on the show. Give us your final thoughts, final pitchout.coms. Where can people get to know you on the interwebs as we go out? I will have a website and it will be Erica Green Ministries.

Erica Green Ministries. Expect that in June, 26, E-R-I-C-A-G-R-E-E-N with an E on the end. Ministries. Of course, my YouTube channel, which is the book of you discovering your God's story, Bible study. Please go there. You can find me. We're going to upload more content. But my last sort of word of encouragement is God is faithful. He never changes. He's not a man that he lies, nor the son of man that he changes his mind. You are who he says you are and you will do what he's commanded you to do. Whether you gain or lose in the process is how you align and write your story with God. Wonderful thing. Give us your dot com's websites, any place you want people to find you out there. Sure, Ericagreenministries.com for website and for YouTube

just go to YouTube and search for Book of You, discovering your God story Bible study. Now, on the ministries you have, you're doing the ministries on that, aren't you? Yeah, we have some devotionals already uploaded, which are about other things, but related to the Book of You. I will be working on a Book of You Bible study, which I'm hopeful to get started in July for our community of people who register on my website, Erica Green Ministries, where we'll be providing the Bible study guide documents, and then we'll go through the book of you as a Bible study. So they expect that in July on Erica Green Ministries. We'll also be posting some devotionals as well and a regular newsletter. So I'm really ready to move in that direction

and look forward to that. Those are the things that are coming. The conference idea, the Broadway idea, you've inspired me. You've inspired me, Chris. I think it's a great thing. What is that Mormon? There's a Mormon one. The Broadway's, they sing about Mormons. I mean, I don't know.

I don't know. They can make a whole two-hour play of waking you up after being hung over in the morning by banging on your door and cross-lining some Joe Smith, dude. I don't know if it'll be like that. It'll probably be better because somehow they turned that small sequence into two hours. They did. You got five people that were in the Bible, so you got a lot more work with it. I can do something with that.

I do want to give you, I do want to thank you. Thank you. I wanted to personally thank you for what you do. I know you need so many people and they're probably a blur, but you will never be a blur to me. Thank you. You're my first podcast for my book and I am grateful for you. And when you wake up saying, hey, what the is going on? I just want to let you know.

I was just reading in Jeremiah. I don't even know why I came across this, but it's like 30, Jeremiah 32. And Israel was being invaded by Babylon because of their rebellion. It was a mess. People were starving. They couldn't leave out. They couldn't go in. The Babylon's had embankments against the nation.

And God was telling all the prophets, look, you're going to be captive. Just surrender. Stop thinking that you're not going to be taken captive. It was chaos. In the middle of this, God tells Jeremiah, I want you to buy this field of land. And his cousin said, I need you to buy this piece of land that my dad left me. And Jeremiah bought it. it for 17. And 17 has a Hebrew meaning of new, new things where you reverse the curse for the new.

My point is, is that God was saying, although I'm about to judge Israel and take you out of Israel and remove my presence in terms of the promise right now, I promise that I'm going to bring you back. So I want you to buy, take a stake. And what I wanted to encourage all of you, like Chris, and sometimes I that wakes up saying, what is going on? That even in the chaos, God has a plan. Mistake your claim, and that means that you have to sacrifice and invest in what God is doing, even though it makes no sense in the world around you. It's been wonderful to have you on and inspiring, and thank you so much for the uplifting message.

Thank you, Chris, for you. I pray God's blessings for you and that you continue to provide this service. Thank you. Well, we will try to do as long as we can hold on, as long as they can probably upright in the chair and I can tell stupid jokes, dad jokes, that will probably be here. Yeah, we're doing pretty good. I think we're like a handful of the first original podcast that are still alive and still broadcasting. Until I get hit by a bus, I'm showing up every day. You and me too. Not to invite the bus at all, but then again, I stay at a crosswalks. Thank you very much for coming the show.

Erica, thanks for honest for tuning in. Order up her book, wherever fine books are sold. The Book of You, discovering your God's story. Watch for future editions out for her and some of the work that she'll be doing coming up. Watch for the musical on Broadway. We'll make it hard to fulfill that. Let me give you some work to do. Thanks for others for doing. Go to Goodrease.com, Fortress, Chris Foss, LinkedIn.com, Fortezs, Chris Foss, 1 on the TikTok, and all those crazy places on the internet.

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