Are You a Christian Atheist? | Historical Books | 1 Samuel 17:1-30

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

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Are you too confident about your knowledge of the Bible? Are you a Christian atheist? Who killed Goliath? In today's episode, Keith shares how 1 Samuel 17:1-30 encourages us to trust that God is more than able to provide for us. If you're listening on Spotify, comment below one takeaway from today's episode! Read the Bible with us in 2025! This year, we’re exploring the Historical Books—Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: 1 Samuel 17:1-30

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.1	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.9	I think most of us read stories in our Bible and assume we got out of it, what God intended for us to get out of it.
0:19.0	And then we just move on to the next story.
0:21.5	We kind of read quickly. I would even say we read carefully as much as we skim a passage and
0:28.2	think that's probably good enough. And if somebody goes back over the same passage or if we
0:34.5	hear a passage preached in a sermon that we read recently or that we're familiar with,
0:39.4	it's easy for us to check out and get bored. Tim Keller tells a story about how he was at a conference
0:46.6	listening to a speaker, and the speaker gave everybody 10 minutes to read a passage and jot down
0:53.2	anything that they observed inside the story.
0:56.8	And so they all did it.
0:57.9	They quietly at their tables read the passage and wrote things down.
1:02.8	And then we're ready for the speaker then to talk about that passage.
1:06.9	Instead, the speaker said, okay, now I want you to take another 10 minutes and I want you to write down more things that you observed out of the same passage.
1:16.1	And he was a little bit frustrated like, well, didn't I just do this?
1:19.3	I mean, I spent 10 minutes on it.
1:20.8	What else is there to get out of this passage?
1:22.9	But he went along with what the speaker asked.
1:26.1	After the second 10 minutes, he had made an additional
1:30.2	list and then the speaker asked for them to do it again, now to spend another 10 minutes and write
1:37.0	down the things they observed. At this point, the room was frustrated, but they did as the speaker
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