One Single Story

Welcome to today's edition of One Single Story! Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Sheryl Daughety for a conversation on spiritual revival in Psalm 85. Who needs revival? What are the warning signs? And how do we rest in God's peace while walking in intentional holiness?

Scripture Focus: Psalm 85:1-13. A psalm of the sons of Korah, written after Israel's return from Babylonian exile. The psalmist recalls God's past mercy, asks Him to revive His people again, and warns them not to return to folly.

In This Episode:

• Psalm 85 as a model for prayer: thanking God and remembering what He has done before asking Him to act again
• Why "returning to folly" is a deliberate choice, not an accidental misstep
• Signs a church or believer needs revival: fatigue, apathy, self-focused motives, abandoned spiritual disciplines, tolerated sin, and indifference to lost people
• Warning signs that are harder to measure, such as worship becoming a performance instead of a delight
• How to balance resting in God's peace with pursuing holiness
• Salvation and sanctification: why our choices affect the depth and joy of our relationship with God, not our standing as His child
• How Psalm 85:10, where love and truth meet and righteousness and peace kiss, points to what Jesus accomplished on the cross

Key Quote: "You don't get disqualified from being a child of God because you return to folly."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily podcast from Open Door Church that offers a brief listen from each weekday's reading in The One Year Bible. Each episode is a short, practical conversation that helps you understand Scripture and apply it to everyday life, whether you are reading through the Bible for the first time or the fifth.

Church and Website Info: Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com and find more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: Join us for the rest of this week's readings as we keep working through Scripture one passage at a time. Each weekday brings a new conversation to help you stay consistent in your Bible reading and grow in your faith.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday we share a brief Bible lesson from the day's One Year Bible reading. Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Sheryl Daughety explore Psalm 84 and what it means to long for the presence of the Lord. Grab your Bible, a pen, and some paper, and join the conversation.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 84:1-12 - A psalm of the sons of Korah, written by temple doorkeepers who loved the dwelling place of God. It moves from longing for God's courts to a pilgrimage through the valley of weeping, and ends with the promise that the Lord is a sun and shield.

In This Episode:

• Why Psalm 84:10 is often misread as a statement of humility, when the sons of Korah were taking pride in the work God assigned them
• How to cultivate a deep appetite for God's presence: practicing it, knowing the person of God, and making it a priority
• Where each host most often meets with God, from the waterfront and the woods to a quiet recliner, and the difference between personal and corporate worship
• How fasting from spiritual "junk food" can restore your taste for the things of God
• How seasons of grief and trial can become wells of grace that refresh other people, with 2 Corinthians 1 as a guide
• What it means that God is both a sun and a shield, and why trusting Him can quiet envy, comparison, and discontentment
• Why unanswered prayers can be a blessing, and how God sees what we cannot

Key Quote: "The things we've been through become wells of grace for people."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily Bible study podcast from Open Door Church that walks through the One Year Bible. Each weekday episode offers a short, practical conversation on that day's reading, helping listeners see how every passage points to the one single story of God's redemptive plan.

Church and Website Info: Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com, and find more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: The conversation continues through the Book of Psalms from the One Year Bible. Join us each weekday as we keep reading, reflecting, and applying God's Word together.

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Welcome to One Single Story! Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Sheryl Daughety open today's One Year Bible reading in Psalm 83 and discuss the sovereignty and supreme name of God. How do we help people who feel God is silent in their struggles? How do we find confidence when opposition rises? And how do we keep our prayers focused on God's glory instead of personal revenge?

Scripture Focus: Psalm 83:1 -18 - A cry from Asaph as a coalition of hostile nations conspires to wipe out God's people. The psalmist asks God not to remain silent, calls God's people his "precious" and "sheltered" ones, and prays that even enemies would come to know that Yahweh alone is Most High.

In This Episode:

• The sovereignty of God and the meaning of "do not remain silent"
• How evil organizes, grows, and is never satisfied
• Why God's people remain precious and sheltered, even when culture is destructive
• How to pastor believers who feel God is silent in their personal or cultural battles
• Remembering God's past faithfulness, including prayers that went unanswered but proved to be a blessing
• Praying Scripture and sharing personal testimonies to strengthen others
• Confidence in knowing that an attack on God's people is an attack on God, as seen in Acts 9
• God's promises in Jeremiah 29, Romans 8, Deuteronomy, and more
• Keeping prayers focused on God's glory rather than personal revenge
• Why carnal retaliation brings temporary relief but long-term consequences

Key Quote: "Our human emotion interprets divine silence as abandonment." Scripture reminds us that silence is not absence.

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily Bible study podcast from Open Door Church. Each weekday, our pastors walk through a section of the One Year Bible reading plan and share a brief, practical lesson to help you see how all of Scripture points to one single story: God's redemptive plan through Jesus Christ. Grab your Bible, a pen, and paper, and join the conversation around the Word of God.

Church Info: Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com and find more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: Continue reading through the One Year Bible with us each weekday as we explore more of the Psalms and the New Testament, discovering how God's Word speaks to the challenges, fears, and hopes of everyday life.

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Welcome to One Single Story! Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Sheryl Daughety to look at Psalm 82 from today's One Year Bible reading. Together they explore divine authority, earthly injustice, and the one true Judge, and how we can show forth the kingdom of God here on earth.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 82:1-8 - A psalm set in the heavenly court, where God stands in judgment over earthly rulers and judges, and the lesser "gods" who abuse their authority. He commands them to defend the poor, the fatherless, and the weak, and the psalm reminds us that every human ruler is mortal and will one day answer to God.

In This Episode:

• God's total sovereignty over the earth, the heavenly realm, spiritual beings, and humanity
• Why human authority is always delegated by God, and why we are called to respect it and pray for those in leadership
• Why we are all "under shepherds" who will one day give a personal accounting to the Chief Shepherd
• Practical ways the church can defend the vulnerable, including foster care classes, financial classes, benevolence requests, a widows and widowers list, Boxes of Hope for families, and support for anti-trafficking work
• How twisted justice shakes the foundations of society by eroding trust, breeding cynicism, and creating division
• Why death is God's great equalizer over human pride, and why no position or title lasts forever

Key Quote: "Death is God's great equalizer over human pride. Yes, you can be prideful if you want to, but it's coming. There's an expiration date."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Each weekday, the team offers a brief lesson from a section of the day's reading in the One Year Bible. Grab your Bible, a pen, and some paper, and join the conversation around the Word of God as we discover how the one single story of Scripture connects to everyday life.

Church and Website Info: Open Door Church, Edenton, North Carolina. Visit us at visitopendoor.com to learn more about our church family, and explore more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: Keep reading through the One Year Bible with us all week long as we continue walking through the Psalms and the daily reading, finding encouragement and practical application in every passage. Join us for the next edition of One Single Story.

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Welcome to One Single Story. Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Alyssa Bream open today's One Year Bible reading in 1 Thessalonians. They explore what faith, hope, and love should produce in a believer's life, how a church can build a reputation for contagious, outward-focused faith, and what Paul's gentle, motherly approach to ministry teaches us about discipleship.

Scripture Focus: 1 Thessalonians 1:1-2:8 - Paul commends the believers in Thessalonica as model Christians whose faith, love, and hope became known everywhere, then reminds them of the gentle, personal way he shared the gospel and his own life with them.

In This Episode:

• How faith, hope, and love become visible through work, labor, and endurance (1 Thessalonians 1:3)
• The role of the Holy Spirit in giving believers assurance, joy, and power, even in suffering
• Why salvation is instant but sanctification is progressive, and what it means to turn from idols over time
• Why our daily influence matters when others are imitating us as we imitate Christ
• How a local church builds a gospel reputation through generosity, consistency, and serving the community
• What Paul's picture of a nursing mother teaches about authentic pastoral care and discipleship
• How deep relationships make room for both tenderness and hard truth

Key Quote: "Internal theology has to turn into external evidence. If you have faith on the inside, it's going to produce evidence on the outside."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a weekday Bible study podcast from Open Door Church. Each episode offers a brief, practical lesson drawn from the day's reading in the One Year Bible, with pastors discussing how Scripture applies to everyday life. Whether you are reading through the Bible in a year or looking for daily devotional encouragement, this conversation will help you grow in your understanding of God's Word.

Church and Website Info: Open Door Church, Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com and find all episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Welcome to One Single Story. In today's One Year Bible reading, Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Alyssa Bream finish the book of Colossians and talk about how our everyday work is ministry. They also cover how to build a prayer life that is alert and thankful, and how to have salt-seasoned conversations with unbelieving friends and coworkers.

Scripture Focus: Colossians 3:18-4:18 - In the closing section of his letter to the church at Colossae, Paul gives instructions for Christian households and the workplace, urges the believers to devote themselves to prayer, and calls them to wise, gracious conversation with outsiders. He ends with personal greetings that name the people who partnered with him in ministry.

In This Episode:

• Why every name in Paul's closing greetings shows that everybody matters in the kingdom
• Surrendering every area of life to Christ as Master
• Hope for anyone who has stumbled, seen in the restoration of John Mark
• Work as worship and ministry, and why we should not separate the sacred from the secular
• Whether your work ethic would make coworkers want to know your Lord
• Moving from crisis prayer to daily, relational prayer that is more than a list of requests
• Practicing alert prayer by praying on the spot when you learn of a need
• Building relationships outside the church bubble and finding common ground
• Why you do not have to win arguments or be an apologist to share your faith
• Preparing to share your story: where you were, how you met Jesus, and what has changed since

Key Quote: "He's not asking us to fill their cup. He's asking us to empty ours."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a weekday Bible study podcast from Open Door Church. Each episode offers a short, conversational listen based on a section of the day's One Year Bible reading. Grab your Bible, a pen, and some paper, and join the conversation around the Word of God.

Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more about the church at visitopendoor.com and find more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode. If today's conversation encouraged you, like the video and share it with a friend who is reading through the Bible this year.

Coming This Week: Join us each weekday as we continue through our One Year Bible reading plan with new passages, fresh discussion, and practical encouragement for daily life and faith.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday we share a brief lesson from the day's reading in the One Year Bible. Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Alyssa Bream open Colossians chapter 3 and discuss how to set our sights on heaven, why Paul calls greed idolatry, and what it takes to forgive someone who has deeply wounded us. Grab your Bible, a pen, and some paper, and join the conversation.

Scripture Focus: Colossians 3:1-17 - Paul calls believers to leave behind their old way of life and live out their new identity in Christ. He urges them to set their minds on things above, put sin to death, and clothe themselves in compassion, kindness, forgiveness, and love.

In This Episode:

• What it means to set our sights on heaven while still living faithfully on earth
• Why intentional focus matters, and why our lives need daily recalibration, like a sight that has drifted off target
• Colossians 3:11 and how Christ is all and in all, so the labels and boundaries that divide people, and even churches, fall away
• Why Paul tells believers to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and how much of our theology is shaped by what we sing
• Why Paul equates greed with idolatry, how it hides behind ambition, and why generosity is a better test than the amount of money
• How to forgive someone who has deeply hurt you, and why forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same thing
• Why forgiveness may need to be repeated again and again before we truly move on

Key Quote: "Unforgiveness hurts you. It doesn't hurt the other person most of the time at all."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily Bible podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Each weekday, our pastors discuss a short section of the day's One Year Bible reading, helping you understand Scripture and apply it to everyday life. Whether you are reading through the Bible in a year or looking for daily encouragement, we invite you to follow along.

Open Door Church, Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com and onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: We continue our journey through the book of Colossians. Join us tomorrow for the next conversation in this letter of Paul.

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Welcome to One Single Story. Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Alyssa Bream for today's reading in the One Year Bible, Colossians chapter 2. Together they look at freedom from empty philosophies, the triumph of the cross, and why man-made rules and legalism can never bring real transformation. Grab your Bible, a pen, and some paper, and join the conversation.

Scripture Focus: Colossians 2:8-23 - Paul warns the church at Colossae not to be taken captive by hollow philosophies and human traditions. He reminds believers that Christ canceled the record of charges against them, nailed it to the cross, and publicly disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities.

In This Episode:

• Three sources of influence on how we think and live: human reasoning, spiritual powers of this world, and Christ (Colossians 2:8)
• The Roman triumphal parade imagery in Colossians 2:15, and what it means that Christ shamed the powers of darkness at the cross
• Modern philosophies that creep into the church, including secular humanism, relativism, consumerism, pragmatism, and the prosperity gospel
• The danger of treating theological correctness as the measure of faith, and why we can extend grace without abandoning truth
• How to shepherd someone carrying heavy guilt for sins Christ has already forgiven
• The difference between forgiveness and consequences, and why hearing "you are forgiven" matters
• The role of confession and community in healing (James 5:16)
• Why legalism produces pride or exhaustion, and why real change works from the inside out
• Why boundaries are healthy, but are never the measure of spirituality

Key Quote: "Legalism brings it down to rules without relationship, and that's really of no value."

About One Single Story: Each weekday, One Single Story offers a brief, practical conversation about a section of that day's reading in the One Year Bible. Our pastoral team shares insights, questions, and real-life application to help you read Scripture with understanding and apply it to your daily walk with Christ.

Church Information: Open Door Church, Edenton, North Carolina. Visit visitopendoor.com to learn more about our church family and onesinglestory.com for more episodes and resources.

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Coming This Week: We continue our journey through the book of Colossians, exploring more of Paul's encouragement to live out a Christ-centered faith. Join us tomorrow for the next conversation.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday we share a brief lesson from the day's reading in the One Year Bible. Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Alyssa Bream begin a new week in the book of Colossians, looking at the preeminence of Christ and what it means to keep Jesus at the center of everything.

Scripture Focus: Colossians 1:18 - 2:7 - In this passage, Paul describes Christ as the head of the church, the one in whom all fullness dwells, and the one who reconciled all things through His blood on the cross. He reveals the mystery of the gospel, "Christ in you, the hope of glory," and urges believers to be rooted and built up in Him.

In This Episode:

• What it means that Christ is preeminent, the central axis everything in our lives revolves around
• Why all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are found in Christ (Colossians 2:3)
• The meaning of "work and struggle" in Colossians 1:29 and why ministry and the Christian life depend on Christ's power rather than our own strength
• How pastors can help believers move from treating faith as an addition to their schedule to aligning their whole lives around Jesus
• How Christ in you, the hope of glory, brings assurance and peace in trials, anxiety, and temptation, and why we should not isolate ourselves when we struggle
• Daily habits that keep believers rooted against cultural pressure, including unhurried prayer, uncompromised worship, active accountability, and spiritual disciplines like celebration, confession, and solitude
• Why basic practices like prayer, Bible reading, giving, and sharing your testimony build strong roots

Key Quote: "We need to try to move people from addition to alignment."

About One Single Story: One Single Story is a daily Bible study podcast from Open Door Church that walks through the One Year Bible. Each weekday, our pastors take a short section of the day's reading and talk through it with practical insight, honest conversation, and biblical encouragement. Whether you are a new believer or have studied Scripture for years, we hope One Single Story helps you stay consistent in God's Word and see how the whole Bible points to Jesus.

Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more about our church and watch our current sermon series on Colossians at visitopendoor.com. Find more episodes and resources at onesinglestory.com.

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Coming This Week: We continue our journey through the book of Colossians, exploring what it means to live out the supremacy of Christ in everyday life. Join us each weekday as we keep reading, keep learning, and keep Jesus first.

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Welcome back to One Single Story! In today's episode, Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Wendy Korbusieski to close out the book of Isaiah, wrestling with what it means to tremble at God's Word rather than take pride in the institutions we build.

Scripture Focus: Isaiah 66:1-24 - The final chapter of Isaiah, where God declares that heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool, reminding His people that no building or institution can contain Him. Instead, He looks to the heart of the one who is humble and contrite in spirit.

In This Episode:

• Why no human structure, building, or program can ever contain or impress God
• The danger of confusing what we've built with what God is actually doing
• How success can be harder to walk through faithfully than struggle
• What it practically looks like to "tremble" at God's Word in a culture that treats truth casually
• Why Scripture must shape our opinions on every issue, not just the ones that are convenient
• How Isaiah's vision of all nations worshiping God connects to the Great Commission and our mission today

Key Quote: "It's harder to serve God and be successful than it is to serve God and be unsuccessful, because you begin to depend on yourself."

About One Single Story: Each weekday, One Single Story offers a brief, conversational lesson drawn from that day's reading in the One Year Bible. Hosted by the pastoral team at Open Door Church, this podcast is designed to help you engage Scripture more deeply, one story at a time.

Open Door Church is located in Edenton, North Carolina. Learn more at visitopendoor.com or onesinglestory.com.

Subscribe so you never miss a daily conversation around God's Word, and join us as we walk through the One Year Bible together.

Coming This Week: We move from the book of Isaiah into new territory in our One Year Bible reading plan, continuing to dig into Scripture together one day at a time.

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