One Single Story

Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5! Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety for the March 20th edition. Today the team is in Numbers 30:1–31:54, unpacking what God's regulations on vows reveal about the weight He places on our words, our integrity, and our accountability to one another.

Scripture Focus: Numbers 30:1–31:54 - God establishes rules for vows, showing how seriously He regards the promises His people make.

In This Episode:

• Why God takes our vows and commitments so seriously - and what that means for everyday life
• How accountability protects our faith by preventing drift before problems take root
• What integrity truly requires: truthfulness, consistency, humility, and repentance

Key Quote: "Accountability is a gift. If people care enough - God certainly cares enough to speak into our life through the Word. And if we have those people that can, and will, and do that in relationship, that is a gift."

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking through the One Year Bible reading plan one conversation at a time. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

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Welcome to One Single Story, the daily devotional podcast where each weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell and co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety walk through the One Year Bible reading together. In today's episode, we are in Numbers 28:16–29:40, exploring God's appointed festivals and why intentional spiritual rhythms are essential to a life of faith.

Scripture Focus: Numbers 28:16–29:40 - God prescribes Israel's sacred calendar, commanding festivals including Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles, setting aside these days as holy and free from ordinary work.

In This Episode:

• Why God deliberately scheduled sacred celebrations and what that reveals about His character
• How repeated spiritual rhythms become the habits that sustain our faith and focus
• Why celebration is itself an act of worship and obedience
• The ongoing challenge of the Sabbath and the freedom found in genuine rest
• How generosity functions as a spiritual discipline that opens the door to breakthrough

Key Quote:

"Rhythms - those things that we repeat become habits. They become a part of who we are and help us keep our priorities where they need to be."

One Single Story is produced by Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. New episodes every weekday following the One Year Bible. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and visit us at visitopendoor.com or onesinglestory.com.

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5. Host Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety for today's discussion drawn from Numbers 26-28, where God assigns the land inheritance, reaffirms the required offerings, and commissions Joshua as Moses' successor - a powerful reminder that worship and obedience must continue even in seasons of transition.

In this episode, the team explores Moses' selfless response upon learning he would not enter the Promised Land, what consistent worship does to shape our character over time, and why rhythms of rest are essential to sustaining long-term devotion. As one host put it: "Faithful, regular, consistent worship is so important because it becomes who we are, not just what we do."

One Single Story is a daily devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, offering brief weekday lessons from the One Year Bible. New episodes every weekday at visitopendoor.com and onesinglestory.com.

Subscribe, share with a friend, and join us tomorrow as we continue through the book of Numbers.

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Welcome to One Single Story, the daily podcast where we walk through the One Year Bible one passage at a time. Today, Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety for a conversation around Numbers 26. What looks like a routine census opens into a powerful discussion about remembering past failures, receiving God's fresh starts, and leaving a spiritual legacy that outlasts us.

Scripture Focus: Numbers 26 - God orders a new census as a fresh generation prepares to enter the Promised Land after 40 years in the wilderness.

In This Episode:

• Why remembering failure builds wisdom and discernment rather than regret
• How God provides fresh starts through salvation, repentance, and new relationships
• Why spiritual legacy is more caught than taught

Key Quote: "You are leaving a legacy. You just get to determine what it is. Things are more caught than they are taught."

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. New episodes every weekday.

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Welcome to One Single Story. Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and guest Pastor Sheryl Daughety for a look at one of Scripture's most striking contrasts: the leap from prophetic blessing to moral failure in Numbers 24 and 25. Balaam blesses Israel and even predicts a coming messianic ruler — then the very next chapter records Israel's sexual immorality and idolatry. The fall happens fast.

Scripture Focus: Numbers 24:1–25:18 — From Balaam's blessing and messianic prophecy to Israel's unfaithfulness with the Moabites.

In This Episode:

• Why spiritual victory so often opens the door to vulnerability and temptation
• How compromise works gradually — little by little — until sin becomes normalized
• The dangers of pride and complacency after seasons of success
• Practical safeguards: accountability, God's Word, confession, and pre-decided boundaries

Key Quote: "Guard your heart most carefully after your greatest victories. That's when you're the most vulnerable." — Pastor Stephen Mizell

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, offering brief, conversational lessons from the One Year Bible to help you understand Scripture in context and grow in your daily walk with Christ.

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This week we are in the Book of Numbers. Join us each day as we work through Israel's wilderness journey — covering blessing, obedience, rebellion, and God's faithfulness through it all.

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5. Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Alyssa Bream for the March 13th edition. Today the team explores Psalm 56, unpacking what it looks like to trust God when your circumstances feel dangerous and overwhelming.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 56:1-13 - Written by David while seized by the Philistines in Gath, this psalm gives one of Scripture's most honest and practical portraits of courage in the face of real fear.

In This Episode:

• Why David's honesty about fear is a model for believers, not a sign of weak faith
• How faith reframes fear rather than eliminating it
• The power of remembering God's past faithfulness to fuel present courage
• The arc of Psalm 56, from despair in verse one to praise by the close

Key Quote: "Fear may visit, but trust must stay."

One Single Story is a daily devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, offering a brief weekday lesson from the One Year Bible. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday we offer a brief lesson from the daily reading in the One Year Bible. Host Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream as they dig into Psalm 55 and what David teaches us about processing betrayal, letting go, and casting our burdens on God.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 55 - David's raw, honest cry to God in the middle of betrayal, most likely written during Absalom's rebellion when his trusted advisor turned against him.

In This Episode:

• David's radical transparency with God in the middle of pain
• Why betrayal must be grieved, then released, before it becomes your identity
• How unprocessed pain spills out onto the people around you
• Why forgiveness and trust in God are daily decisions, not one-time events

Key Quote: "Carrying things we weren't meant to carry keeps us from being able to do things we were intended to do."

One Single Story is a daily devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Subscribe wherever you listen, and join us every weekday through the One Year Bible.

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Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Alyssa Bream dig into Psalm 54 - David's raw, honest cry to God written when the Ziphites betrayed him to King Saul. It is a psalm of lament, bold prayer, and hard-won trust, and it has a lot to say about how we handle conflict today.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 54:1-7 - David's plea for God's attention and deliverance amid betrayal (1 Samuel 23)

In This Episode:

* The two types of prayers David prays - urgent personal appeal and bold request for justice against his enemies * Whether David's enemies were also God's enemies, and what that means for how we pray * Why our culture has lost the art of lament and why David's psalms model a healthier way to process pain * What actually anchors faith in hard times - and why it starts with the habits you build before trouble arrives

Key Quote: "The habits and relationships that you build when life is good are what can sustain you when life gets tough."

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking through the One Year Bible one passage at a time.

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Welcome to One Single Story. Pastor Stephen Mizell, joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream. Today we are in Psalm 53, verses one through six, a meditation from David written during the moral decay of Israel, where he diagnoses the spiritual condition of a people who have turned their backs on God.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 53:1-6 - David's diagnosis of spiritual disease in Israel, and a parallel to Psalm 14, pointing toward the only true source of restoration.

In This Episode:

• What Scripture actually means by "fool" - not intellectual weakness, but moral corruption and willful spiritual resistance
• Why unbelief is ultimately an act of pride and self-reliance, choosing the moment over eternity
• How God's perspective differs from ours - he sees the heart, the motive, and a timeline that stretches far beyond our own
• Why dark times were never meant to be walked through alone, and how community sustains righteousness when faith feels thin

Key Quote: "As believers, our best days are always ahead of us. If I am in relationship with him, irregardless of what happens, it is well in the end. And that is real hope."

New episodes every weekday at onesinglestory.com. Open Door Church, Edenton, North Carolina - visitopendoor.com.

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5! Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream for today's reading from the One Year Bible. In this episode, the hosts dig into Psalm 52 and explore what it means to trust God over personal influence and what it looks like to be an olive tree planted in the house of God.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 52:1-9 - Written after Doeg the Edomite betrayed David and massacred the priests of Nob, this psalm confronts the temptation to boast in human power and points us back to the steadfast faithfulness of God.

In This Episode: * Why the Hebrew root of "boast" is the same word used in "hallelujah" - and where we direct our praise * How wickedness can produce short-term gains, but justice and truth always prevail * Trusting God over influence, titles, and charisma * The rich symbolism of the olive tree - rooted, fruit-bearing, and dependent on a source beyond itself

Key Quote: "Choose faithfulness over fame, because God wants to grow olive trees."

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking listeners through the One Year Bible one passage at a time. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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