My Favorite Bible Story
Enjoying the Journey
Scott Pauley
4.9 • 819 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a fast-paced, ever-moving world where everyone seems to be rushing in every direction. |
| 0:14.3 | And yet, in scripture, God desires to teach us that walking with him is our greatest and most important adventure. |
| 0:22.6 | Join Scott Pauli along this journey as we rediscover the joy of our walk with Christ. |
| 0:29.6 | Today we look at my favorite Bible story. |
| 0:38.3 | I love all of God's Word, of course, but there is one story that through the years |
| 0:43.3 | has meant more to me personally, just to my own life than any other. |
| 0:48.3 | It's taught me so much about God, it's taught me so much about myself, |
| 0:53.3 | it's taught me so much about others. I just, I go back to it |
| 0:57.5 | again and again. It's like a deep well or a deep, rich mine, and you never exhaust it. Charles Dickens |
| 1:03.7 | called it the greatest short story of all time. Rembrandt actually painted two paintings based on this one story from two different perspectives. |
| 1:14.1 | It is, it's an amazing story. |
| 1:16.6 | Jesus told this story in Luke chapter number 15. |
| 1:20.0 | The Bible says in verse 11, and he said, a certain man had two sons. |
| 1:24.6 | And the younger of them said to his father, |
| 1:26.1 | Father, give me the portion of goods that |
| 1:28.6 | falleth to me, and he divided into them his living. And not many days after, the younger son |
| 1:34.2 | gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance |
| 1:40.7 | with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that |
| 1:45.4 | land, and he began to be in want, and he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, |
| 1:50.3 | and he sent him into his fields to feed swine, and he would fain have filled his belly with the husk |
| 1:56.6 | that the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him when he came to himself he said how many hired |
| 2:03.8 | servants of my fathers have bred enough and despair and i perish with hunger i will arise and go to my |
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