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🗓️ 18 September 2025
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Have you ever experienced that thrill of looking out the window of a plane? You might be familiar with the area, but you’ve never seen it like this! Pastor Colin Smith shares from his book, “Fly Through the Bible: A Brief Introduction.” He’ll help us find the right altitude to take in the big-picture landscape of God’s marvelous story.
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| 0:10.6 | Yes, he will. Only do it. Yes, he will. He'll take a stone, make it still. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome, this is he Larson Live. |
| 0:27.8 | Always so honored to get to spend this time with you. |
| 0:30.3 | In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your understanding of God's |
| 0:38.6 | word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, I travel a lot |
| 0:43.3 | for speaking events, and I've got to tell you, as soon as that plane takes off and we're way up in |
| 0:47.1 | the air, that's when I exhale. That's when I look out the window. I whisper a prayer. I just look |
| 0:52.7 | at the sky, the sun, the clouds. I marvel at God's |
| 0:56.4 | majesty. And I just notice that all the stresses and the trials that I left behind seem to get |
| 1:01.4 | smaller as my view of God grows bigger. I always love it. I mean, I don't love hauling my luggage. |
| 1:06.9 | I don't love all that other stuff. My sleep getting disrupted when I travel, but I love that time in the plane. |
| 1:12.2 | It's sometimes some of my most sacred prayer time is I just ponder what it means to get a grander look at God's creation. |
| 1:19.4 | Well, my guest today uses that same analogy in his book, fly through the Bible. |
| 1:23.5 | And he helped us get a big picture of landscape of God's story. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm so glad to welcome back to the show, |
| 1:35.4 | author, Pastor, Faith Radio programmer Colin Smith, and he's got a book titled Fly Through the Bible. |
| 1:40.2 | It's a brief introduction. It's a flyover of Scripture. So if you feel intimidated by the Bible, |
| 1:44.3 | oh my goodness, this is a good place to start. And I do want to mention to you, for those who are locally listening in the Twin Cities or maybe one of our other networks, pastors traveling around on |
| 1:49.1 | tour to do a fly through the Bible event in several different cities, you can find all that |
| 1:55.3 | information at open the Bible.org. For those listening in the Twin Cities, he's coming October 21st, |
| 2:00.2 | but he'll also be in St. Louis, he'll be in Des Moines, Zionsville, and a few other places where we have markets. So check out his website, open theb Bible.org, and see if you can get to one of his events. We'll get him on in just a moment. I got a quick announcement for you. Maybe you know this already, but we are listener-supported ministry, and I love that, which |
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