StoryPods

WHAT’S YOUR STORY? STORY OF GOD
Enter­ing God’s Story — This mes­sage com­pletes the Story of God mes­sage series.  I hope that you enjoy as we hear from sev­eral peo­ple within our community.

WHAT’S YOUR STORY? STORY OF GOD
Con­sum­ma­tion — Com­mu­nity Fully Realized

WHAT’S YOUR STORY? STORY OF GOD
Church — The New Humanity

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?  STORY OF GOD
Crown — Com­mu­nity Gains a Liv­ing King

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?  STORY OF GOD
Cross — Com­mu­nity Pur­chased Once-and-for-All

Dur­ing this pod­cast we strug­gle with the ques­tion:  How does Jesus on the cross enact atone­ment between human­ity and God?  Answers to this ques­tion are often referred to as ‘The­o­ries of Atonement’.

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?  STORY OF GOD
Crown — Com­mu­nity gets a new king!

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?  STORY OF GOD:
Crown — Com­mu­nity Gets a king!

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Story of God:  Cost Com­mu­nity is Purchased

This is the sixth mes­sage  in the ‘What’s Your Story?’ teach­ing series.  After God had pre­sented the Israelite peo­ple with his code, we quickly real­ize how soon we cross the bound­aries. This part of story tells of God’s pro­vi­sion for mak­ing atone­ment (mak­ing things right).  At God’s heart and the heart of the priestly and sac­ri­fi­cial sys­tem is rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and restoration.

WHAT“S YOUR STORY?
Story of God: Code — Com­mu­nity is Leg­is­lated
Texts: Exo­dus 20 and Leviti­cus 19

First, let me apol­o­gize for going so long. I lost track of time. Though I did go long, and it’s hard to lis­ten to the whole thing and pay atten­tion the whole time, I believe that there is a lot of good for­ma­tional infor­ma­tion in this next pod­cast.  Remem­ber that as we go deeper in the story it’s impor­tant to remem­ber what has been said before.  God doesn’t just fully reveal him­self all at once.  He knows this is too much for us.  So he begins slowly one step at a time.  And let us remem­ber this is a jour­ney, a great epic adven­ture unfolding.

WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Story of God: Call — Com­mu­nity is Rescued!

CRISIS COMMUNITY IS THREATENED

Cri­sis — Com­mu­nity is Threat­ened from Ben­jamin Yost on Vimeo.

Almost every story has a villain.

Why?

This third mes­sage in “What’s Your Story?” teach­ing series strug­gles with the ques­tion of evil in our world, but tends to go deeper ask­ing how evil got into my heart.

CREATION COMMUNITY IS CREATED

Cre­ation — Com­mu­nity is Cre­ated from Ben­jamin Yost on Vimeo.

Every­one has a story — our life story. What we often fail to real­ize is that our sto­ries only make sense in light of God’s story as the great author.

In this sec­ond mes­sage of the What’s Your Story mes­sage series, we com­pare two dif­fer­ent cre­ation nar­ra­tives. The first is the Enuma Elish which is the cre­ation nar­ra­tive that would have been guid­ing the peo­ple of the Mesopotamium, Sumer­ian peo­ples about the time of the Exo­dus narratives.

The big ques­tion: Which story is form­ing your life? Which story would pro­duce a bet­ter life for you and every­one else on the planet?

‘What’s Your Story?’  We all have a life story.  But what we often fail to real­ize is that our sto­ries don’t fully make sense until we real­ize that God is telling an epic story.  A story full of adven­ture, sac­ri­fice, ques­tions and end­less poten­tial.  It’s only through God’s story that our life sto­ries begin to make sense.