How to Be Present Where God Has Placed You | Historical Books | Joshua 21

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Do you treat certain parts of the Bible like "flyover country"? Do you suffer from placelessness? Are you disconnected from God's purposes? In today's episode, Jeff shares how Joshua 21 encourages us to be present where God has placed us. 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: Joshua 21

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0:00.0	Let's break this down. For every 10 minutes you spend in your Bible each day, you spend 1,430 minutes a day
0:08.2	outside of it. So the question is this. Do you feel equipped to engage with today's culture where you
0:15.0	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.
0:26.6	But not all outsiders are created equally.
0:30.4	You can discover how God has uniquely called you to engage with today's culture in Keith and Patrick's new book, Joyful Outsiders.
0:39.4	Find more information and start reading today at joyful outsiders.com.
0:49.3	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:52.9	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:54.9	I'm Jeff Parrott. I live in a part of the United States called flyover country.
1:01.4	Now, depending on who you talk to, invoking that phrase flyover country or fly-over states is either a geographical
1:09.1	jab or a badge of honor. The moniker describes an expanse of land
1:14.1	in the middle of the continental United States, nestled between the more magnetic east and west
1:19.9	coasts. And in the popular imagination, nothing very exciting happens in the vast Midwest landscape.
1:31.1	It's just sitting there for everyone to fly over en route to more interesting destinations. Their place is not worth much attention, places to be
1:38.0	passed over and ignored. As the country musician Jason Aldine used in his hit song about flyover states, people and airplanes in the sky, they look down and they say, who'd want to live down there in the middle of nowhere?
1:52.4	Now, there's a version of flyover country that most folks have when it comes to their approach to the Bible.
1:59.0	For example, the genealogies of Genesis, the instructions for
2:03.6	building the tabernacle in Exodus, the meticulous outline of the sacrificial system in
2:08.9	Leviticus. We look down at these long stretches of scripture and we wonder if they're
2:13.7	passages that aren't worth much attention. We wonder if they're better off being
2:18.7	passed over and ignored. Joshua 21 is probably classified as flyover country for many people
2:27.4	who travel the pages of the Bible. I mean, who'd want to land the plane and think deeply about
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