BONUS EPISODE: What if I don't understand what I'm reading?
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this Bonus episode, Emma Dotter is joined by Watermark's recent Woman's Equipping Director, now full-time grandmother, Gigi Hornberger. We know that the Bible can be confusing at times and that confusion can keep us from diving into the word. Gigi leaves us encouraged and with tools on how to keep pressing into the Bible even when we may not at first, understand.
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| 0:00.0 | everybody what is going on you know what time it is you're listening to join the journey podcast |
| 0:05.7 | with your host emma daughter thanks for joining i am in the podcast studio with the one and only |
| 0:13.7 | mrs g g hornberger hello emma jiji it is good to have you back you were here i think for philippians |
| 0:20.7 | somewhere there. |
| 0:21.8 | Is that right? Philippians 4. You're back and we are asking the question, what do I do when I'm stuck? |
| 0:28.5 | I'm studying the Bible and I just am not sure if I'm understanding what I'm reading. What do I do? |
| 0:34.7 | That's a really good question and a common question. |
| 0:37.8 | And I was thinking the other day, my husband, he likes to save money. |
| 0:43.8 | And every day he tosses his daily change into one of those great big Coke bottle banks to save it. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | And we recently took one of those Coke bottles to the bank, and it turned out that he |
| 0:57.9 | had collected over $2,000. |
| 1:00.0 | In change. |
| 1:00.7 | In change. |
| 1:01.7 | Wow. |
| 1:02.0 | For me, that was just a tangible reminder that small deposits over time add up to great value. |
| 1:10.7 | And so in the same way, those small daily deposits of regular |
| 1:16.0 | time in God's word will add up to great value. And we know that from Psalm 19. God's word |
| 1:22.9 | has the power to refresh us and to make us wise and to bring joy and warning. |
| 1:29.3 | And in reading the Bible, there is great reward because small deposits over time add up to great value. |
| 1:37.9 | We will see progress. |
| 1:39.3 | But there, like you said, there are times that we will read a passage and we have no idea what it's talking about. |
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