When 'Find My God' Fails | Historical Books | Judges 6:11-35

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🗓️ 21 February 2025

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Do you have a fear of missing out? Do you try to use a 'Find My God' app? Will God give us answers? In today's episode, Jeff shares how Judges 6:11-35 reminds us of the good news that God gave more than answers; he gave himself. 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: Judges 6:11-35

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.9	In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Jeff Parrott. All right, confession time. I am terrible
0:17.0	at keeping track of and taking care of my phone. This is no exaggeration. As a part of my
0:23.4	track record, I've lost a phone by leaving on top of our family van only for it to be accidentally
0:29.4	dropped off near a city park while we were driving. I've even lost a phone in one of the most
0:34.8	confined places you can imagine. Inside a gondola on the side of the
0:39.7	mountain in Colorado. No kidding. That phone was trapped on the gondola for six months before it was
0:46.3	found by their staff. It's a story for another day, but needless to say, I have a problem when it
0:51.4	comes to finding things. That's why it was really good news for me when
0:56.0	Apple released the Find My iPhone app about 15 years ago. And while that app didn't necessarily
1:02.0	help me locate and recover the van phone or the gondola phone, it does help me with the more
1:07.9	mundane phone rescue missions. A couple of years after releasing,
1:12.9	Find My iPhone, Apple unveiled the Find My Friends app to help people keep track of their friends
1:18.6	and their kids. Then in 2019, Apple shifted to the more all-encompassing Find My app, where you can
1:26.7	find pretty much anything or anyone that gives you access.
1:31.2	As the years have progressed, the Find My app has become a fixture in friend groups, couples,
1:37.5	and for families. It's almost like a badge of inclusion into a community group. And of course,
1:43.5	there are many benefits to having this
1:45.9	kind of visibility and access into the whereabouts of our loved ones. But at the same time,
1:51.4	there's another side to the coin of the access that the Find My app gives us. Back in 2022,
1:58.8	Callie Huang wrote a piece for the New York Times describing the gift that the find my app can be for many relationships, but she also described the cost of it as well.
2:08.7	Her article details how a pervasive fear of missing out is sometimes amplified by an awareness of where people are without you. One researcher described the effect on
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