Words of Affirmation Aren't Enough | Historical Books | Judges 10

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Are words of affirmation enough? Is your faith merely lip service? Do you truly love Jesus? In today's episode, Jensen shares how Judges 10 encourages us walk in the faith we proclaim. We love hearing from you all! If you're listening on Spotify, drop a comment below to let us know where you're listening from. 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 10

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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.
0:10.9	I'm Jensen Holt McNair.
0:13.3	Dr. Gary Chapman made the idea of love languages popular in his book, The Five Love Languages.
0:20.0	If you've never heard of them, the five love languages
0:22.5	are words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, gifts, and quality time. He proposes
0:28.8	that we all have a language that we predominantly feel loved and show love to others. I say all of this
0:34.7	just to set up my hot take on love languages. I think words of affirmation
0:40.3	is the worst of all the love languages. Now, I'm married to someone whose primary love language is
0:46.7	words of affirmation, so I say all of this empathetically. But I genuinely think it's flawed.
0:53.5	I don't need you to tell me you love me. I need you to show me that you love me.
0:57.7	You can say nice things all day, but without the action behind it, they're just words, just lip service.
1:04.2	I can say nice things if it makes someone feel better, but how do they know I really mean it?
1:09.5	Words don't comfort me. People showing up for me, being present
1:13.9	in my life, caring for me. That's love. To take from Jesus in John 1513, greater love has no one
1:22.7	than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. True love takes action. It takes work. There's no
1:31.2	greater love than this. Not that one writes a love sonnet or tells you that you look good today,
1:37.6	but that you lay down your life, your wants, your needs, your desires for the good of another.
1:44.0	Now, this is both true in our relationships
1:46.4	with one another, but also in our relationship with God. There is an epidemic in the church
1:52.1	of people willing to call themselves Christians, talking the right talk, saying the right
1:56.3	things, but failing to live lives that uphold the teachings and commands of the very one that they profess to
2:02.6	love. And it's not an out there problem, not pointing the finger, it's a right here in my heart
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