[Bible] Episode 264: Aaron Higashi - Five Things You Need to Know About 1 & 2 Samuel

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Aaron Higashi joins Pete to talk about five key points in understanding 1 & 2 Samuel—and why our reading of this biblical tragedy doesn’t have to be tragic. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for normal people, the only God-ordained
0:03.4	podcast on the internet. I'm Pete Ens. And I'm Jared Bias.
0:07.0	Hey everybody on today's episode, it just me Pete and I'm talking about five
0:16.0	things you need to know about first and second Samuel with Dr. Aaron Higashi now
0:21.7	Aaron is not only one of our esteemed nerds and
0:24.9	resident scholars but also an adjunct instructor at Grand Canyon University.
0:29.8	He's widely known for sharing biblical scholarship on his Tik-Toc channel, which is just amazing.
0:36.0	You gotta go check it out.
0:37.4	It's at ABH Bible.
0:39.8	And he's also writing for us our commentary on First and Second Samuel in the Bible for
0:44.0	Normal People book series so there you have it so with that let's get into this
0:48.2	episode as readers of this text we have a lot of freedom in what parts of the text we want to play a part
0:56.6	in our theology or what parts of the text we are going to repeat and tell and embrace
1:01.6	as the prescriptive parts of the text.
1:03.6	These are the things we're going to take with us.
1:05.6	These are the good precious metals amongst all the rest of this terrible things that are happening.
1:11.6	I think if we extract these stories and carry them with us,
1:14.6	they can be enriching for our lives today.
1:17.0	Granny and Grandpa had their hearts set on getting Jess a drum kit for her birthday.
1:25.0	And because they bought it on their Barclay card, they were rewarded too.
1:29.0	It was music to their ears.
1:31.0	Same can't be said for mom and dad. What you buy is your business.
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