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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.
There are only fifteen shopping days left before Christmas! Are you done? Maybe the better question is - have you started?
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered the possibility that the greatest gift we could ever give would be ______ .
The good news, it is free. The even better news - giving this gift will change everything.
It is easy for us to get caught up in who has the power and who doesn't because it seems like those have it always use it for themselves. Maybe that is why the bible shuns the love of power and instead insists it is the power of love that matters most.
Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright looked at the ways God is inviting us to move from the love of power to engage in the power of love.
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, but communal feasts for many different reasons are common throughout human history. Jesus was invited to a feast once - and what happened there was the beginning of his mission on earth.
Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored just what happened at that feast and how we are invited not only to enjoy it but also to become a part of it as well.
This last election cycle had a lot going on, some of it was pretty ugly. Yet underneath there a common theme that linked voters from both parties together - this theme was also present in the life and mission of Jesus. What was it and how could it help us to live with more purpose and passion?
This was the question Mike Gathright considered Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering.
Have you ever thought you knew something for sure? Like you were absolutely certain and then... It is not a good feeling. We all long to have more control over life than we actually, really have.
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Jill McNabnay looked at the nature of certainty, why it is so important to us and how it just might be keeping something very important from us.
People are fascinated by miracles. Some study them, others scoff, some believe and maybe more doubt. Jesus has a unique perspective on miracles.
This Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered the question - what are miracles for?
Families, schools, companies, organizations can sometimes look very different from one another. But sometimes they look very similar - but FEEL very different. Why do some groups, organizations, families and communities feel open, friendly, inclusive and others feel stiff, closed, exclusive and judgmental?
All kinds of people felt included, welcomed and loved by Jesus. How did he do it? And why do communities of faith in Him so often fail to "feel" like this?
These are the questions Mike Gathright explored Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering
Greatness... It's a word that comes with so many implications. It suggests success and triumph and legacy. It instills images of winning a race or conquering a fear. You may think of great moments in history like landing on the moon, The 1980 Miracle on Ice, the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. But what did Jesus think of greatness? How would he have defined it?
This week at the Gathering, Paul Knapp ask that and explored what greatness might mean when it comes to living the life of faith.
When really bad things happen we want to know why. It is a normal and natural response to suffering, tragedy and the evil in the world. Yet Jesus wants to lead us forward by encouraging us to ask another question as well - "what now?"
This Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering, Mike Gathright considered the unique and surprising path Jesus offers us in the face of life's most difficult realities.
WWJVF? Have you seen these bracelets? Me neither. But maybe you have wondered, "who would Jesus vote for?"
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering, Mike Gathright continued our discussion of religion and politics and the amazing revolution Jesus has unleashed and invited us into.
It is an election year! (Ugh.) For most of us we either roll our eyes, sigh with disgust or even worse when we think about politics.
Jesus seemed to be able to relate - yet, he had a brand new, never seen or even considered approach to politics and how to make the world a better place.
This Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering, Mike Gathright looked at the totally unique and revolutionary way Jesus approached politics.
"But in order to make you understand, to give you my life, I must tell you a story."
-Virginia Woolf
Stories help us understand who we are and who God is.
This week at the Gathering was Story Sunday.
Join us as some Storyliner's shared some of their stories.
We all remember where we were, what we were doing exactly 15 years ago when the planes hit the World Trade Center on 9/11. Since that day it seems as if the unthinkable all too often can become reality.
This Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering, Mike Gathright explored how we can thrive and live life to the fullest even in a world where anything can happen.
