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Every part of life has ways to celebrate and honor their high achievers; the All-Star Game, the Oscars, Mother's Day, The Dean's List, on and on it goes. Even the church does this - declaring a select few spiritual giants as "Saints." There is nothing wrong with this, yet, especially when it comes to sainthood - it leaves the rest of us...where?
Sunday morning at the Gathering, Mike Gathright considered what a saint looks like and we heard from several people about the saints in their lives.
Can we be honest for a second...about Easter? It is hard to believe; very difficult to believe it is true. But, have you ever thought about it this way? If it's true but doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it's true.
Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered some of the reasons Easter matters, and how (if it's true), it could change everything.
Most of us think that the Bible and science disagree on absolutely everything. But this Sunday at Storyline's Gathering, Megan Hines considered one critical area of life on which they absolutely agree!
So, Religion has been reinvented and you may be left wondering... OK... What's next? What does it mean for me? How do I "buy in?" Where do I go from here? It seemed a whole lot easier to find the answers before all of this...
Paul Knapp agrees. This week at the Gathering he explored what a reinvented religion could practically look like for all of us going forward.
Spring has sprung and with it...what? This time of year is supposed to be a time of renewal, rebirth - new beginnings. Sometimes we all struggle to believe that, but Jesus clearly did. He invaded our world with a sense of purpose and passion and has invited us all to join him.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright took a deeper look at this purpose and passion and how we might make it our own.
In the 1980s Pepsi and Prego pursued two different paths trying to dominate their market. Pepsi lost market share and Prego became the king of spaghetti sauce! How?
This Sunday morning Mike Gathright compared the way of Jesus to spaghetti sauce and soda.
Mike Gathright continue's to wonder about what a reinvented religion might look like.
We are constantly updating software, improving technology, refining medicine...innovating, adapting and developing almost every aspect of life. Why not religion? GASP! Both fans and detractors assume that is impossible. But Jesus didn't!
How do you reinvent something? Maybe, take the best of the original intention and try to update it for the realities of today? This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright is going to continue our exploration of reinventing religion drawing on the example of the ultimate REinventor - Jesus.
It is time. WAY past time...to reinvent religion.
What's gone wrong? What now? How can God matter and make a difference in our life? These are the questions Mike Gathright wondered about this Sunday at Storyline's Gathering.
Flowers, candy, cards, and romance.
Did anyone notice it was Valentine’s Day this week?
Whether we choose to celebrate it or not, the impact of LOVE in all of our lives is powerful. Jesus understood this and modeled some unique ways to help us consider how we love others.
This week at Storyline’s Gathering we considered the opportunity we each have to love others generously and how it might make a difference in our own lives as well as those all around us.
There is no way to avoid it, sooner or later, we are going to have to forgive others. It is just a reality of life. To live with the bitterness and resentment of unforgiveness not only leaves us separated from others, it takes a huge toll on our personal sense of well-being. Jesus understood this and has invited us into a unique and life-changing way to forgive one another.
This week at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered this invitation and how it might help us move forward in life - together.
How we judge and assess other people plays a big role in how we treat them, feel about them and relate to them. This caused one writer to say, "The most important thing about you is what you think when you think about God." If that's true, then certainly a close second would be what we think when we think about ourselves.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered how God's offer of forgiveness not only changes our relationship with Him, it can also transform our relationship with ourselves.
2017! Wow. It is a year that sounds like the future, a time and place so much better and advanced than our reality. Didn't you think, hope, by 2017 we'd be further along, more advanced, sophisticated, civilized, balanced, just, fair? Why aren't we? What is holding us back?
Lots of people came to Jesus with these same questions and he totally shocked them with his answer. This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored what Jesus seems to think is holding us back from the future we all want.
Just what is the meaning of Christmas? It feels like a question that ends with an understood - "to you?" And that is fine, it is something we should think about, but it assumes something doesn't it? What does Christmas mean?
This Saturday, at Storyline's Christmas Eve Gathering, Mike Gathright explored this question - and how it may help us all discover the meaning of Christmas...for ourselves.
Christmas is the world's most celebrated holiday... and it's not even close. Just this year, American's will spend 6 Billion Dollars on Christmas decorations alone!! But why? Why do we invest so much time and energy and money into this holiday over all of the others? What makes December 25th so special?
This week at the Gathering, Paul Knapp asked these questions and explored why an ancient story from the 1st-century middle eastern world continues to capture an audience nearly 2,000 years later.
