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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Moving Past a Neat Christianity | Historical Books | 2 Samuel 21:1-14

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Are you stuck with a neat view of Christianity? Are you longing for the real God? Are you working for justice? In today's episode, Jeff shares how 2 Samuel 21:1-14 reminds us of the weight of our sin that Jesus bore on the cross. If you're listening on Spotify, tell us about yourself and where you're listening from! 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: 2 Samuel 21:1-14

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0:00.0

Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

0:08.8

In the time it takes to get to work.

0:11.0

I'm Jeff Parrott.

0:12.9

Are you stuck with a flannel-bored version of faith?

0:16.8

The author Chuck de Groat describes this version of Christianity in his book, Healing What's Within.

0:23.3

He writes this, I still remember the dark and damp church classroom on Long Island, New York,

0:30.1

where I'd see the epic Bible stories come to life on flannel board. The vivid greens,

0:35.7

ocean blues, and brilliant yellows provided the landscape backdrop

0:39.9

to flannel figures of the great heroes of scripture. Now DeGroate is talking about the teaching

0:46.8

method for Bible stories used usually with children. It's a relatively polyanish patina of flannel or felt

0:54.1

boards, where characters and scenes seem more

0:57.5

peaceful, more simple than the events probably really were in history. If you grew up in a church

1:03.9

any time before the year 2000, maybe even after that, there's a good chance that you learned your

1:09.2

earliest lessons about the Bible through a

1:11.7

felt board or a flannel board. Now, to be clear, DeGroate is not critiquing the technique of the

1:17.8

felt board lessons in the church. Those tools can be faithful, meaningful, and age-appropriate ways

1:23.6

to teach the Bible to children. That's great. What de Groat critiques here is a version of

1:29.5

Christian faith that stays stuck on the flannel board, on the felt board, and it never grows

1:35.9

into a deeper exploration of the Bible, of human life, of sin, of our need for grace. He goes on to

1:43.2

write that these felt board images, they fail to convey

1:47.0

just how traumatic a life exiled from God and ourselves can be. So according to DeGroat,

1:54.4

if our faith doesn't grow up alongside our lived experiences, we can be left with a version of Christianity that's stuck on the

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