This Happens All the Time | The Story of Israel E1
John Mark Comer Teachings
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Are the odd stories in Scripture relevant to us at all? In this teaching, John Mark dives into the historical books, showing how these stories were written for our benefit, and encouraging us to embrace the hope of God's faithfulness in the midst of our failure.
Key Scripture Passages: 2 Samuel 2v8-28, 1 Corinthians 10v1-13
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome to the John Mark Holmer Teaching Podcast. My name is Yinka Dawson and I'm your new host. |
| 0:10.4 | Each week we feature teachings by John Mark or other friends who are talking about spiritual formation in the body of Christ. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm very excited to be jumping into this journey with you all. |
| 0:21.6 | Now, before we get into our new series, you might be wondering, where's Strawn? |
| 0:26.7 | Sadly, Strawn is stepping back from his role as host for this podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Having discerned that there were other things that God was leading him to focus on in |
| 0:35.2 | this season, he'll still be on our team here practicing the way, |
| 0:39.3 | helping us pray and reflect. |
| 0:41.4 | And while we're sad to lose him as our host for this podcast, |
| 0:44.8 | we're overjoyed to see him moving towards the work |
| 0:47.5 | at the most aligns with God's calling in this season. |
| 0:51.6 | For our episode today, we're starting a new series from the Year of Biblical Literacy, |
| 0:56.5 | the story of Israel, walking through the historical books of the Old Testament. |
| 1:01.8 | Have you ever wondered what the strange stories in the Old Testament have to do with your |
| 1:05.6 | walk with God? Today, John Mark tackles that question, showing us that these stories have surprisingly more |
| 1:12.3 | to do with our lives than we suspect. |
| 1:15.8 | Here's John Mark. |
| 1:16.7 | To Samuel 2. |
| 1:19.9 | Okay, if you are new or visiting, first off, welcome. |
| 1:24.9 | Secondly, to catch you up to speed, we as a community are in this year-long series on |
| 1:30.8 | the Bible. It's actually a little misleading. It's more like a collection of series or like |
| 1:35.0 | Siri. I don't know what the actual correct grammar is there. And we did one on the Bible itself |
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