Articles Tagged 'Story'

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real HIStory

Ron Rose last post and he talks about being a storyteller for the great things that God does in our lives based on Psalm 71:18-22

He wants me to be a reporter, telling and retelling the stories of God's encounters with His people.

Questions

Ron Rose wants us all to ask ourselves some important questions at this stage in our lives to be ready to instruct those who are younger and also ourselves.

What big things — have you learned in life? How do you know that the big things are big things?

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Behind the Well-Known Story, There’s More

Melissa Troyer writes with her unique and young mothering grace as she discovers new truths from an old familiar passage to discover, old stories have new truths when we come with fresh eyes and from a new place in our lives.

God places value in our journey and the discovery of age-old truths that are vibrant and life-changing for us here in our specific new season.

Don't Just Do Something

Phil Ware reminds us that the phrase 'don't just stand there do something' is absolutely wrong: we must pray first, then let the Lord lead us to know what to do!

He was oblivious to the truth that our attempts to live for Jesus will succeed only if we have the power of the Holy Spirit released to us through prayer.

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Our Intersection with Joy

James Nored on video and Phil Ware with words remind us that the circumstances of the moment can be swallowed up in the greater joy of God's long story of grace that came to us in Jesus of Nazareth.

God's long story of grace intersected the mess of our world, and the rest of this story is our good news of great joy.

Warts and All

Philip Gulley uses his homespun charm to pay tribute to a hero, tell a self-effacing story about childhood warts and crushes, and weaves it together to remind us of God's love and how we should love others.

When I recall how Mr. Ellis brought me back into the human fold, I remember that Jesus once took ten lepers in hand and did the same.

Finding Jesus: Reaching for God, Not Substitutes

Phil Ware continues his series of posts on the Immanuel Project, the way Jesus promised we could know and experience God.

Where can we go to experience God and fill the hole inside of us?

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Until We Find Our Dream

James Nored and Phil Ware share in video and words the wonder of Jesus’ birth and how it changed the world with the Sound of Music and tie this to the New Year with New Hope prayer hour.

What an incredible story of transformation from an atheist to a Christian missionary in primitive Papua, New Guinea, and it is the real

Our Intersection with Joy

James Nored on video and Phil Ware with words remind us that the circumstances of the moment can be swallowed up in the greater joy of God's long story of grace that came to us in Jesus of Nazareth.

God's long story of grace intersected the mess of our world, and the rest of this story is our good news of great joy.

This Is Our Story, Too! (SOR 4.0)

James Nored shares about God's story through Abraham and David to Jesus and Phil Ware helps us understand the meaning of the story through the genealogy of Jesus.

The more most of us examine our past, the more we realize that our family tree is full of interesting stories that have shaped our identity.

One Like Moses (SOR Egypt 5)

James Nored and Phil Ware move from Abraham and Moses to Jesus in God's great story of redemption and show how Jesus becomes the fulfillment

Moses brought down God's Law from his mountain. Jesus demonstrated God's love on a hill outside Jerusalem!

Our Intersection with Joy

James Nored on video and Phil Ware with words remind us that the circumstances of the moment can be swallowed up in the greater joy of God's long story of grace that came to us in Jesus of Nazareth.

God's long story of grace intersected the mess of our world, and the rest of this story is our good news of great joy.

Peace: Until We Find Our Dream

James Nored and Phil Ware share in video and words the wonder of Jesus’ birth and how it changed the world with the Sound of Music.

What an incredible story. It's a story of transformation from an atheist to a Christian missionary in primitive Papua, New Guinea!

Teach Us to Pray Intro: Don't Just Do Something...

Phil Ware begins a series of messages built around the disciples' request to Jesus to teach them to pray with today focusing on our need to pray first.

'I wish I had time just to sit around and pray,' my friend said. He walked away in a huff!

One Like Moses!

James Nored and Phil Ware move from Abraham and Moses to Jesus in God's great story of redemption.

Moses brought down God's Law from his mountain. Jesus demonstrated God's love on his mountain.

C.S. Lewis and the Struggle to Find Faith

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to look at C.S. Lewis and his journey of faith along with a broken-hearted father and see how we might be able to find faith in our own lives.

The final destination of our journey to faith often depends upon the orientation of our hearts.

This is Our Story, Too!

Phil Ware and James Nored continue to share God's story of redemption and focus this week on Jesus as the fulfillment of God's promises to Abraham and David and the genealogy of Jesus that displays God's grace.

We want our lives to be part of Jesus' story of redemption, and then we want to share that redemption with others!

Finding My Story in God's Story

James Nored begins to share his great video series on the Story of Redemption, entitled Finding Your Story in God's Story.

Life's ultimate questions need answers. Do you know where to find them? Do you know how to share them? Do you know how your story fits into God's big picture?

A Christmas Invitation You Don't Want to Miss!

Rick Brown reminds us that we can tell the story of Jesus' birth just as well as the shepherds did!

Hold on to your Christmas hat, because you've received the same invitation as the shepherds!

Hank and the Mop Bucket

Max Lucado reminds us that God is not finished with us yet and still speaks to us.

Changing direction in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Let's Experience What the Lord Has Told Us About!

Phil Ware challenges our settled notions about church in the box and wants us to realize that Jesus has so much more in store for us if we will make the moves necessary to experience Jesus and his story for ourselves.

Does it ever feel like that we've reduced Christianity down to something less than Jesus wants us to experience?

Father Forgive Them!

Phil Ware gives his applications on the seven sayings of Jesus from the cross for today's world and Jesus' followers.

How can we do this? How can we not?