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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

JOHN058 - You and I Are Embarking on a Pilgrimage, and We’re Not Going to Use Google Maps

The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast

Matt Whitman

Education, Reading, Morning, Bible, Christianity, History, Prayer, Devotion, Scripture, Study, Faith, Men's, Women's, Plan, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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John 1:28 Matt's book, The Lightning-Fast Field Guide to the Bible is available NOW! - here's a link that gets TMBH a little kickback: https://amzn.to/4pEYSS9 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Music by Jeff Foote

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0:00.0

Hey, Matt's daughter here. I just wanted to jump in really quick and say two, no, I'm going early.

0:28.4

I think Google Maps are kind of a turd.

0:31.9

And here's why I think that.

0:33.4

Used to be that you had to figure out where you were going,

0:36.6

and there was a little bit of mystery

0:38.1

and a little bit of adventure to things. And when you traveled places, you didn't know what it was

0:42.8

going to look like. You didn't know what it was going to feel like. And how you would get there

0:48.5

was something you had to solve. You had to figure it out. Look, obviously, you know, Google Maps are

0:53.2

very convenient. Map apps are great GPS, wonderful, unlocks a bunch of things that we can do now on

0:58.8

planet Earth.

0:59.7

But every time we unlock something new, we deprive ourselves of something that was awesome.

1:04.9

And the adventure of exploring the unknown, even if it's known to other people, but it's unknown to you?

1:11.8

That was a really important thing in the formation of character, in the formation of people.

1:19.0

You get a backpack, you get a car that's probably going to break down along the way.

1:22.6

You go on a road trip, you go on a hike, you go on an adventure.

1:25.5

I think Google Maps has made that worse. Well,

1:29.6

old man rant aside, back in the day, obviously, there was no Google Maps at all. And way back

1:36.2

in the day before the printing press or things like that, when the world was much younger,

1:41.6

it was hard to travel to places because you didn't know how to get

1:46.8

there. And there were a lot of misadventures and things that could go wrong along the way,

1:53.7

which is, you know, part of the fun of a pilgrimage. That is the kind of trip that isn't just

1:59.5

motivated by profit or obligation, but a pilgrimage,

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