Understanding the story of the Bible with Zach Windahl
Susie Larson Live
Faith Radio
4.7 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Bible is a big book, and it can be overwhelming! Author and content creator Zach Windahl shares practical ideas for studying the Bible and understanding it in new and deeper ways. Zach's book is "The Bible, SImplified: Learn the Story, Live the Story".
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Here's the podcast from Susie Larson Live. Enjoy the conversation. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to Susie Larson Live. |
| 0:23.6 | Always so honored to get to spend this time with you. |
| 0:26.2 | I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, |
| 0:32.2 | that deepen your understanding of God's Word and that heightened your awareness of his very real presence in your life. |
| 0:38.6 | Did you know that most Christians, like the majority of Christians, don't read their Bible? |
| 0:43.4 | Why do you suppose that is? |
| 0:45.0 | Sometimes it may be fear and intimidation, maybe spiritual laziness. |
| 0:48.9 | And in some context, it's persecuted church, you know, can only get their hands on one chapter of the Bible a month. |
| 0:54.9 | You know, a whole village may share the Bible. But I think in the West, mostly, that stat is |
| 0:59.0 | accurate because everybody gets busy, they get distracted. But they say that only 40% of Christians |
| 1:04.9 | read their Bibles twice a year. And about 20 to 25% of Christians maybe read their Bible twice a week. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, this is not condemning at all, but it's a concerning one, don't you think? When you think |
| 1:17.9 | about if we're not in the word, how will we discern the voice of God? How will we make it |
| 1:23.8 | through our trials if we're not firmly holding on to the promises of scripture? |
| 1:34.3 | How do we stand firm against the enemy if we don't even know what he's allowed to get away with or not, right? I mean, how do we know to raise our shield and raise our sword and how to |
| 1:38.6 | actually stand in faith if we don't know what the Bible says about what the enemy does? |
| 1:46.6 | And how will we keep from drifting into a theology of our own making if we're not repeatedly in the word, the living, breathing |
| 1:52.4 | word of God? I mean, the Bible is the only living, breathing book. I used to tell my boys when they were |
| 1:58.4 | growing up, when you open the Bible, you open God's mouth. |
| 2:01.5 | I mean, it makes himself known in the pages of Scripture. But it's true. Sometimes understanding, |
| 2:06.3 | the Bible feels complicated. My prayer for you by the end of this show today is that you fall in love afresh with God. |
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