Let's break this down. For every 10 minutes you spend in your Bible each day, you spend 1,430 minutes a day

outside of it. So the question is this. Do you feel equipped to engage with today's culture where you

spend the majority of your time? The truth is, if you're a Christian, you're an outsider. But that's what God has called you to be, and he wants you to live this way joyfully.

But not all outsiders are created equally.

You can discover how God has uniquely called you to engage with today's culture in Keith and Patrick's new book, Joyful Outsiders. Find more information

and start reading today at joyful outsiders.com. Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect

the Bible to your life. In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jeff Parrott.

In Andrew Peterson's book, Adorning the Dark,

he tells a story of some neighbors who were building a new house

and wanted to demonstrate how every part of their life,

including their new home, would be devoted to God.

So to do that, they went into the house before

the insulation and drywall went in, and they wrote Bible verses on as many two by four studs as they

could. It wasn't some kind of mystical ritual. It was meant to be an embodied way of living the truth

that their home was not meant for serving themselves,

but meant for serving God. I love that picture of just going into the house, writing on the

two by four studs, truth and love of God. It's such an awesome picture of what serving God

with our lives can and should look like. And even if most of us, for sure,

aren't going to be able to write Bible verses about God's truth and God's love on the studs of a

physical house, we can still display the love of God and the truth of God in the framework,

the foundation of our lives. We can be devoted in such a way that our lives aren't about serving ourselves,

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