FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • No, we do not have an app,. If you see an app that claims to be us, it is fake., so please report it. Thank you! HOWEVER, we have a podcast that is on many podcatcher apps, and we have videos that are on YouTube. We also have a partnership with the Bible App (YouVersion), and they feature our reading plans there (including the daily video recaps).

  • SHOW NOTES are in different places depending on the app you’re listening to. For many apps, you just swipe up. If that doesn’t work for your app, try Googling the name of your app and the words “show notes”.

    The DESCRIPTION BOX is also referred to as the "SHOW NOTES". If you're just in YouTube, you can just scroll below the video to the info listed below. You may need to click "...see more" for all the show notes to appear.

    If you are in the Bible App, these are still available to you, you'll just need to take an extra step to get there from the Bible App. Watch our VIDEO on how to access them after watching the recap video within our reading plan.

    You can find important articles, visuals, etc. referenced in the recaps on our SHOW NOTES page of our website.

    By the way, show notes are links to external resources that help build out what we’re studying; they are not transcripts.

  • You can find our printable plans on the START page of our site.

    If you prefer to follow the plan digitally, we offer our 365-day chronological plan and New Testament plans. Download the Bible App (free) or Dwell Bible app (subscription).

    On the Bible App, follow the TBR page, where you’ll find our different reading plans. Start the whole Bible (365-day) OR New Testament (3 months). On the Dwell app, search for “The Bible Recap” plan.

  • Here’s some helpful videos for how to access our recap videos and the show notes for our plans in the Bible App:

    1. How to access our recap videos IN the Bible App plans
    2. How to access show notes

  • We always encourage listeners to send their people to the START page of our website. In addition to this, we also designed graphics to help you invite others to read the Bible with you. You can find them here!

  • We use the ESV (English Standard Version) of the Bible. Here are some of our favorites! As for a chronological Bible, we recommend that you do NOT buy one of those, because it will likely be laid out differently than our plan. Instead, just use your regular print Bible or listen along via the Bible app according to our reading plan.

  • Great! It’s ALWAYS the right time to start reading your Bible! We recommend you start the reading plan with Day 001 (Genesis 1-3) no matter what time of year you join us. Much of our podcast builds on earlier pieces of information, so it’s preferable to start at the beginning instead of jumping in where we currently are.

    To get started, follow the steps on our start page.

  • Depending on which podcast app you’re using (we recommend Podbean, which is our source app), you can often find a setting that allows you to play the podcasts “sequentially”, as opposed to “play most recent episode first”. If you can’t find that setting in your chosen app, try doing an internet search (Google, etc.) to see if it’s an option and/or how to locate it in your chosen app. Then you’ll just read along with the plan daily and select the “next” podcast each day!

  • Tara-Leigh isn’t a spiritual authority over any listeners, so there are many men who feel comfortable listening to this as a commentary, as they would in any conversation about Scripture with a female. There are entire churches doing the plan together under the authority of their pastors. There are also entire families, including young children, who do The Bible Recap together! People often tell us their children pick up far more than they would normally expect them to and ask great questions.

  • Hello to all our TBR Parents! We recognize that every parent has a different standard for how they engage their children on a variety of topics. One of our values is to help you introduce everyone in your family to the depths in the Bible. Scripture presents some hard discussions sometimes (death, murder, rape, incest, adultery, demons, etc.), and it covers a lot of challenging topics. We never want to censor Scripture, so we aim to have conversations around its more challenging topics with openness and wisdom.

    Much like many of the ancient Israelites whose male children memorized the Torah by age 12, we believe it has benefits for all those who engage with it, and we want to encourage people of all ages to dig into Scripture! As the parent of your child, we believe you are best equipped to determine how to handle the conversations Scripture brings up as your child approaches new or challenging topics.

    You may notice that we’ve put a “little ears” warning at the top of some episodes. That occurs most often on days when TBR’s content digs a little deeper into the topic at hand. But if you want to be more detailed about what your child encounters, here’s what we suggest: On the days when you’re reading or listening to the Bible passage, if you notice that Scripture covers a topic you aren’t ready for your child to hear more about yet, feel free to hold off on reading / listening to / watching The Bible Recap until you’ve had a chance to review it for yourself and see if it suits your child’s needs.

  • Thanks for listening so attentively! We make every effort not to misrepresent things, make mistakes, or communicate poorly, but with the sheer volume of work required for a project like this, it’s bound to happen from time to time (though we always hate it when it does)! Please trust your Bible more than our podcast. If we ever say something in error, you already know who is right (and it isn’t us). ◡̈

    We have a trusted team of people assigned to listen for any errors, but some things will boil down to preferences and opinions. With the wide range of ages, cultures, and denominations who listen, it would be an impossible task to create a podcast that everyone agrees with. In those instances, we encourage listeners to take what is helpful and disregard what isn’t. As one Bible teacher puts it, “Eat the meat and spit out the bones.” (Or if you’re vegetarian, “Eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds!”) :) Healthy disagreement is natural in all families, and we’re grateful that you’re helping us create peace in the gaps!

    If your question persists, you may reference our QUESTIONS FAQ below. Or you can see our CONTACT page for how to reach out.

  • Throughout the year, we link to many different resources and links that correspond to our daily reading and recap. However, these links are not an endorsement of everything that the particular person/ministry/website does or says. We are unable to vet the full history of every person, site, or organization we link to–-we simply found the specific resource linked was helpful to provide a fuller understanding of the specific text or topic of Scripture being addressed.

    You can read more about our beliefs/absolutes. These are things that The Bible Recap stands firmly behind. We work hard never to contradict these absolutes in our words or our suggested resources. We don’t claim to fully align ourselves with any other person or organization.

    For secondary and tertiary topics (convictions, opinions, questions, etc.), The Bible Recap aims to remain neutral, knowing there can be a variety of opinions that are not contrary to Scripture (although people often hold strong convictions and opinions about them). Because we attempt to remain neutral in these areas, TBR has been able to serve as a resource for brothers and sisters in Christ from a wide variety of denominations and traditions. We hope that the tools we provide serve as on-ramps for further conversations and conclusions within local church communities.

    Overall, our mission is to help people read, understand, and love God’s Word. We aim to do that by encouraging people to dig into Scripture and engage thoughtfully with their local church.

  • We’re grateful you’re reading along with us, and we’re thrilled that you have questions! That means you’re really paying attention and digging in! Because I love theology and discussing God’s Word, I’d love to be able to sit down and talk it over with you. However, since we get hundreds of messages daily, my team assures me there’s a wiser approach that helps delegate a little of the weight of that responsibility (like the advice Jethro gave to Moses in Exodus 18).

    Here’s what we’ve come up with that we hope will help you if you have questions from reading and/or listening:

    A. Research Tools

    We’d love to share some of our best free resources to help equip you for your own research. Some of our favorite online tools are the FaithLife Study Bible (the website is more user-friendly than the app), GotQuestions?, and BlueLetterBible. These are GOLD! (And we never frown on a good old fashioned Google search either!)

    B. Local Church

    One of our hopes in connecting people with Scripture is to also connect them more deeply to their local church. They are the people who walk alongside you on a regular basis. And since many questions stem from personal life experience, it can be helpful to connect with someone who knows how to speak to the nuances of your unique situation. It’s often hard for us to do that when we (likely) don’t know you personally.

    C. Discussion Group

    If you’ve done your own research and talked to someone at your church (or don’t have a church) and still have questions OR you have lots of questions regularly and want more feedback at large, we’ve found it’s helpful to connect you to our Facebook Discussion Group for our RECAPtain Family, for our lowest tier price. We realize that may be cost prohibitive for some budgets, but we’ve found that having a small “barrier to entry” tends to keep out the cynics and naysayers. As a result, this community is incredibly kind, patient, and helpful. We’ve tried to keep the cost low in order to serve as many people as possible!

    This group is also great because each question often receives multiple responses from a wide variety of perspectives, instead of just having us reply to you with our own as though we have THE answers. Multi-layered responses can help us learn to weigh and understand things better and with greater nuance. And truly, their answers are often BETTER than mine. I learn a lot by reading the questions and responses!

    We hope these resources will be helpful to you.

  • We do! They are offered through our RECAPtain community at the Transcript Tier. Or if you only want one transcript, you can find them in our store! In addition to that, we have The Bible Recap book, which is “the podcast in book form”. While it’s not a word-for-word version of the podcast, it contains most of the basic information. It’s a great option for people who prefer books to audio or people who aren’t tech-savvy.

  • No, anyone can listen in!

  • The Bible Recap is just a tool to help you with daily Bible reading, D-Group is a group that meets weekly, in person, and is led by someone who has been through our training program. We have full curriculum built out to help you with various other aspects of your walk with God: weekly Bible study, prayer, service, scripture memory, accountability, etc. For more information on D-Group, visit our website.

  • No. There are lots of people who are doing both! In D-Group we encourage people to read the Bible daily, and many people find that The Bible Recap is a great way to do that!

  • Updated 12/21/23

    The plan is to drop the September R&C episode on Sep 30 (Day 274). So there will still be an episode for you AND you can either use that as a catch-up day before we start the New Testament OR if you’re still on track, you can pop over to your favorite Psalm or Proverb or a book in the New Testament as a mini-preview. You can also use it to invite your friends and family to start reading through the New Testament with us. on Oct 1!

    For a full description on how you could proceed with your reading plan of choice, see our LEAP YEAR page!

  • While the content does overlap, the book is the most refined, abridged version of the audio/video transcripts. We edited out some of the audio/video content in order to keep the book’s content to only two pages per day.

  • Here are our suggestions for how to fi this:

    1. Refresh your app or restart your phone. This is the unplug it, plug it back in thing.

    2. In your app, scroll back to last year’s episodes. The content is almost entirely the same.

    3. Try switching to Podbean. That’s our source app, and it has the least glitches for most people.

    4. Recap using our YouTube videos. It has the whole year of content.

  • Thanks for listening! There’s a couple of options for you:

    1. What most people in the Eastern Hemisphere choose to do is follow our plan one day late, that way the podcast has loaded for you by the time you read (i.e. Instead of starting Day 001 on January 1, you’d wait until January 2.)

    2. Another option is to follow along with our YouTube videos. The videos for the whole year are up and ready for you for whatever day you’re on. And if you’re using our reading plan in the Bible App, the videos are in each day’s “Devotional” tab.

  • We do not plan to record any new episodes next year, but we do plan to reload all the podcast episodes again day-by-day. Our YouTube videos won’t be reloaded, but will remain in our YouTube playlist for you to access at any time!

  • Thanks for asking! We have those all available for you in our store.

  • Customers have 30 days from the delivery date to request a refund (no exchanges).

    Your item must be unused and in the same condition that it arrived in. Return labels are not provided.

    If an order is returned to the store marked as "undeliverable", the customer will be refunded for the products. If desired, the customer may place a new order with a new/updated shipping address.

    Please send all return requests to the email store@thebiblerecap.com.

  • Men are welcome on all our trips. Check out our Israelux site for trip details. Unfortunately, we’re unable to accommodate anyone under the age of 18. For senior citizens, their level of health and activity will determine whether or not this is suitable for them. It’s generally a high paced trip with 2-4 miles of walking per day, some uphill, some on stairs, and some on tricky ground.

  • Thank you! Please fill out the Booking Request Form on Tara-Leigh’s website. Look for the button on the Speaking page that says “Click Here to Fill Out the Speaker Request Form”.

  • Yes and no. The CONTENT is not new, but we'll be POSTING them again "new"/daily. We aren't taking down the old content since some people are still working their way through at a different pace.

  • This is a problem many people are having specifically with Apple Podcasts, though occasionally with other apps as well. We recommend trying another platform to see if the podcast loads for you there. Our favorite app is Podbean, which is our source app (that’s where we load the content, and we pay them to make sure it’s up, so they usually do the best job for us). If you're having a problem with Podbean, please email us at thebiblerecap@gmail.com so we can help you troubleshoot. If you don’t want to switch apps, you can always scroll back to last year’s content or search for the episode on YouTube (just be sure to enter all 3 digits of the day: “Day _ _ _”).

  • The Bible Kneecap is available only to our RECAPtains. Here’s how to access it: 1) Join the RECAPtains and pick The Bible KNEEcap tier or higher. 2) You’ll be emailed a personalized URL to embed into your podcatcher/app. Not all podcatchers support this link. 3) Once you’ve added the URL it will populate in your podcatcher automatically each day.

  • First, thank you so much for being a RECAPtain! Secondly, monthly bonus content is only available for 60 days. So if you are in a different part of the plan than us you may be hearing about a bonus that is no longer available. But we have good news! We have made sure that every month's bonus is helpful no matter where you are in the plan. If you are in the same part of the plan with us and still can't find it make sure you are logged into your account and scroll down to posts from the first of the month, that's when we post it!

  • First off, thank you for wanting to financially support The Bible Recap! Your support helps TBR keep coming to everyone on a daily basis - and helps us take it to even more people in more places than before!

    In order to donate, you can click the DONATE button at the top right corner of the website to give by credit/debit card, OR go to our CONTACT page for information on how to give by check.

    Please note that we aren't a 501c3, therefore your donation isn't tax-deductible.

  • Thank you! Our shipping address is on the Contact page.

  • In addition to her lifelong background of Bible study and church attendance, Tara-Leigh worked for 100+ hours a week, over the course of 15 months, to create the initial build of The Bible Recap content. She and her team continue to edit and refine the content regularly. Her research and edits include reading the Bible passage in multiple translations, reading a variety of study Bible and commentaries from various perspectives, researching Greek and Hebrew lexicons, and interviewing pastors, Bible teachers, and personal mentors. Additionally, the book (which impacted the podcast retroactively) was researched and proofed by the editorial team at Bethany House Nonfiction Publishing. All these efforts aim to offer a recap that is accessible and informative for a wide variety of faith traditions within the Christian perspective.

  • She will answer to anything, but usually prefers to be called “Tara-Leigh” or “TLC”.