Are You Committed? | Historical Books | 1 Samuel 20:24-42

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Have you made commitments out of fear? What does loyalty look like? Are you loyal to Jesus? In today's episode, Tanya shares how 1 Samuel 20:24-42 reminds us of the most important commitment in our lives. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! 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 20:24-42

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.9	I'm Tanya Wilmuth. So today we're going to talk about the word commitment. And first of all, I just wonder, what does the word commitment mean to you?
0:19.3	I have a feeling for all of us that the answer to that might be
0:21.7	shaped by something that your family taught you, the way that you were raised. It might be shaped
0:26.5	by an experience that you've had where you've had to keep a commitment or maybe when you didn't.
0:31.2	Can you remember a time when you made a commitment and your parents made you keep it even when you
0:35.7	didn't want to? What do you think they were trying to teach you?
0:38.8	What was behind that?
0:40.7	I've kept commitments longer than I wanted to sometimes, simply because I had made them,
0:44.6	but I've also failed to keep commitments.
0:46.4	I've made excuses and I've gotten out of them.
0:49.3	I've experienced both sides of this.
0:51.9	There was a time when Braden was little, and he was playing summer
0:54.9	baseball. And his coach asked the team at the end of the season, which was very hot, if I remember
1:01.4	correctly, if they wanted to extend into the fall and keep playing. And so we asked Brayden,
1:06.5	hey, do you want to keep playing? And he said, no. But we were first-time parents, not that that's
1:12.9	an excuse, but we were afraid that if Braden sat out, that when Spring came around the next time,
1:18.7	he would lose his spot on the team. So out of fear, we talked him into playing for the fall season.
1:24.6	It wasn't long into that, that Braden got hit by a pitch and he broke his arm.
1:28.9	And suddenly, we weren't just taking him to games that he didn't want to play. We were taking him
1:33.3	to games he couldn't even play. And we didn't even want to watch. But we felt stuck. We'd made a
1:39.6	commitment to this team. I'm not entirely sure what Braden took from that season. I should probably ask him.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 5 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ten Minute Bible Talks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ten Minute Bible Talks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.