What’s Distracting You From God? | Torah | Deuteronomy 7

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What are your greatest obstacles? Is there anything holding you back from following Jesus? Do you feel like you reflect Jesus in your life? In today’s episode, Tanya describes Moses’s encouragement to Israel in Deuteronomy 7. Find out how you can battle distraction in your own life. 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 with others, so 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: Deuteronomy 7.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Football coaches must be great writers. After all, they're
0:18.2	tasked to design and deliver a speech every week for 10 weeks. It's a speech that should inspire their team to believe
0:25.6	they can win and play like it. It's not too different from what I get to do here every
0:30.8	week except I wonder what it's like to write a speech like that when you know your odds of winning
0:36.0	are grim. Well some do it better than others.
0:40.3	Here's a clip from a pre-game speech delivered by a Houston Oilers coach. It was sometime in the 72 or 73 season when they went one for 18.
0:50.0	I seriously laugh every time I hear this. Take a listen.
0:53.2	Here's our game plan.
0:55.2	We're going out there to this first half.
0:58.4	We're going to explode like a bomb.
0:59.8	Then the second we're just going to get higher third quarter we're going to get higher and the fourth car quarter we're just going to catch on fire and that's our game plan
1:09.2	and let's just go out and do it that way. Okay he he said, here's what we're going to do.
1:14.6	This half we're going to explode like a bomb.
1:17.0	Third quarter, we're going to get higher.
1:18.7	Fourth quarter, we're going to catch on fire.
1:20.8	Let's go.
1:22.1	That's how we're going to do it. Do what? What does this even mean? I can't
1:27.2	tell if he's trying to write a poem or if he just wanted to get this game over with.
1:35.9	Maybe he should have taken a cue from the Bible. That's what the Indian Hills coach did before his high school team went out to play a much bigger and a much better opponent.
1:42.0	This coach talked about David and how David was chosen
1:45.0	even though he was the smallest of the brothers.
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