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The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Into the Spotlight: Shining Light on Jonathan’s Story

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Writer Bob Smithouser, collaborator Abigail Geiger, and sound designer Nathan Jones take listeners “Out of the Spotlight” and explain why the name turned out to be such an appropriate title for both Jonathan’s journey and the production itself.

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0:00.0

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0:24.1

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0:26.9

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0:48.5

Hello. Hello world. Welcome to the official Adventures and Odyssey podcast. I'm Jesse with Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine.

0:55.0

And I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club. And today, Bob, you're not only the club producer and podcast host.

1:00.7

You're also a guest because you wrote, out of the spotlight, this month's club adventure.

1:05.2

That's why I'm sitting in the hot seat. Well, then I better get to interviewing. We'll also be talking to your collaborator, Abigail Geiger, and sound designer Nathan Jones. I'm ready. Interview away.

1:10.4

Okay, wait right there. While I use this music cue to make Nate and Abby appear in the studio.

1:22.3

Abby and Nate, glad to see you guys.

1:24.7

Good to see you.

1:25.7

It's awesome to be here at the end of beautiful music like that.

1:28.9

That's right.

1:30.2

It's just materialized.

1:31.5

It's amazing.

1:32.9

I'm glad you continued with us, too, because we're talking about your episode here.

1:37.9

And again, it's a Bible story, and Odyssey has done lots of Bible stories.

1:41.8

In fact, we've heard about David and Goliath several times, but yet you return to First Samuel again, but this time to focus on Jonathan. Why is that?

1:52.3

Justice, Jesse. And I'm only partly kidding about that. When we talk about this period in Israel's history in the church, a lot of times pastors will preach on King Saul, you know, the mistakes he made as a cautionary tale.

2:04.6

Or we focus on the new kid, David, who's the poster boy for overcoming impossible odds.

2:09.0

But I'm afraid that while both are important, that Jonathan kind of gets lost in all that.

2:14.0

The old felt board pictures are Jonathan as David's buddy.

2:17.3

But he was actually more than 20 years

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