Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday we offer a brief lesson from the One Year Bible. Hosts Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Sheryl Daughety as they explore 1 Kings 3:3–4:34 - and what it means to ask God for the right things.

Solomon has just been established as king. Aware of the gap between his ability and his responsibility, he makes a remarkable request - not for wealth or power, but for a hearing heart to serve his people well. In this episode, the team unpacks why listening is the foundation of true wisdom, how to keep our requests aligned with God's priorities rather than our own comfort, and why God-given wisdom is one of the most magnetic evangelistic tools a believer can carry.

As Pastor Stephen reminds us: "Wisdom begins when we stop talking to God and start listening to Him."

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Find us at onesinglestory.com or visitopendoor.com. Subscribe so you never miss a daily lesson, and join us the rest of this week as we continue through the life and legacy of Solomon.

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5! Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream for a conversation from Proverbs 16:21-23 — exploring why pleasant words are persuasive, how outrage culture pulls us away from the kindness that actually creates change, and what it practically looks like to slow down and filter our words before they leave our mouths.

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 16:21-23 - Solomon connects wisdom, discretion, and speech, reminding us that the heart is the true teacher of the mouth.

In This Episode:

• Why tone matters just as much as truth
• How social media rewards harshness — and what Scripture says about that
• Practical ways to teach your mouth to speak with more wisdom and grace

Key Quote: "The heart is the teacher, the mouth is the student. And if you don't like what you're saying, check who's teaching the class."

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, offering a brief daily lesson from the One Year Bible reading plan.

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Welcome to One Single Story, the weekday podcast where Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream for a conversation around the One Year Bible. Today the hosts explore Proverbs 16:19-20, unpacking Solomon's countercultural wisdom on humility, the pull of status and success, and what it truly means to trust the Lord.

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 16:19-20 - Better to live humbly among the poor than to share in the plunder of the proud. Those who trust the Lord will be joyful.

In This Episode:

• The temptation of status, success by association, and why we gravitate toward the proud
• The difference between biblical prosperity and the prosperity gospel
• What trusting the Lord looks like when his instruction is difficult or unpopular

Key Quote: "It's better to have nothing and be right with God than to have everything and be at war with him."

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Subscribe wherever you listen and visit us at visitopendoor.com or onesinglestory.com.

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5, where Pastor Stephen Mizell and co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream dig into one verse that has been quoted for centuries. Today we are in Proverbs 16:18, and we are talking about pride, what it blinds us to, and what it costs us.

Proverbs 16:18 delivers a direct warning: pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. The team unpacks how pride creates dangerous blind spots, why the people around a prideful person almost always see the fall coming first, and what the subtle symptoms of pride look like in ministry and leadership, including the inability to take feedback, micromanaging, and taking credit for what only God could do.

Most importantly, pride dulls our ability to hear the Holy Spirit. As Pastor Stephen puts it: "If the Holy Spirit has a radio station, it is humility. You will hear confirmation, but not conviction."

One Single Story is a daily podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking through the One Year Bible every weekday. Subscribe wherever you listen, and visit onesinglestory.com for more.

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Welcome to One Single Story with Pastor Stephen Mizell, joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream. In this episode, the hosts explore Proverbs 16:16-17 and Solomon's bold claim that wisdom outvalues gold and silver - and what that means for how we actually spend our time today.

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 16:16-17 - Wisdom and good judgment surpass gold and silver in value, and the virtuous path leads away from evil and keeps its travelers safe.

In This Episode:

• Why wisdom must be pursued intentionally - it is never acquired by accident
• How doomscrolling, busyness, and digital comparison traps have quietly replaced wisdom as our highest priority
• The subtle on-ramps that lead believers off course - isolation, small compromises, and content that breeds envy and pride
• Practical steps for guarding your path and curating what you allow your eyes to see

Key Quote: "Now more than ever, you have to be intentional about what you curate for your eyes to see."

About One Single Story: A weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking believers through the One Year Bible with short, practical, conversational devotionals rooted in Scripture and real life.

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Welcome back to One Single Story, where each weekday we take a brief look at the daily reading from the One Year Bible. Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Alyssa Bream. Today we're in Proverbs 16:14-15, where Solomon contrasts a king's deadly anger with the refreshing favor of a king's smile -- and what that means for every leader in your life.

In This Episode: We unpack the difference between wise appeasement and people-pleasing, explore how a leader's attitude functions as the thermostat of an organization or family, and discuss why praying for those in positions of authority -- and the people around them -- matters more than we might think.

"A leader's mood is the thermostat of an organization, and wisdom knows how to handle the heat."

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Subscribe wherever you listen, and visit onesinglestory.com to follow along with the One Year Bible reading plan.

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Welcome to One Single Story, your weekday companion through the One Year Bible. Host Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski for a conversation around Psalm 119:97-112 — the wisdom stanza of Scripture. Together they unpack what it means to walk by the light of God's Word in a world full of information but starving for wisdom.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:97-112 — The psalmist declares that God's Word makes him wiser than his teachers and that its guidance is sweeter than honey and a lamp to his feet.

In This Episode:

• The difference between human knowledge and biblical wisdom — and why balance between the two matters
• Why God gives us a lamp for the next step rather than a full map of the destination
• How to move from reading Scripture as obligation to receiving it as a feast and love letter from God

Key Quote: "God doesn't always give us a map of the destination, but he always gives us a lamp for the next step."

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

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5. I'm Pastor Stephen Mizell, joined by co-hosts Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski. Today we're in Psalm 119, verses 81 through 96, where the psalmist hits a breaking point, feeling like a shriveled wineskin in smoke, but shifts his gaze to something that never changes: the settled Word of God.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:81-96 - An exhausted psalmist cries out in hardship, then anchors himself to the truth that God's Word is forever settled in heaven and without limit.

In This Episode:

• How staying in God's Word keeps you from spiritually drying out and becoming brittle
• Why Scripture is timeless when everything else, trends, relationships, and earthly perfection, eventually fails
• How we naturally try to negotiate with God's Word instead of letting it shape us

Key Quote: "Your feelings are shifting sand, but God's Word is a settled stone."

Find us at visitopendoor.com and onesinglestory.com. Subscribe so you never miss a weekday episode, and join us tomorrow as we continue through Psalm 119.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski explore the One Year Bible reading plan together. In this episode, the hosts wrestle with a hard truth: that suffering is genuinely good for us, even when we cannot bring ourselves to admit it in the middle of it.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:65-80 - The psalmist reflects on how God's goodness is revealed through affliction, describing suffering as a guardrail for the soul that draws us back to his decrees.

In This Episode:

• Why God uses suffering as a guardrail and what it means that the psalmist called his affliction good
• The difference between what is good and what is pleasant, and why we confuse the two in hard seasons
• How Psalm 119:73 frames God as our Designer and what that means for questions of identity and purpose
• Why a leader's personal hope is a corporate asset, and the crucial difference between a wound and a scar

Key Quote: "Wounds are for your inner circle, your counselor, your journal, and for God. Once it becomes a scar, you are not asking for help anymore. You are offering hope."

One Single Story is a daily podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and visit onesinglestory.com to learn more.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where every weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Wendy Korbusieski for a brief lesson from the One Year Bible. Today we are in Psalm 119:49-64, the "midnight stanza," exploring how God's Word sustains us when life feels its darkest.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:49-64 - The psalmist, under pressure from the proud and wicked, anchors himself in God's promises and instructions even in the dead of night.

In This Episode:

• How God's promises comfort us in our deepest personal struggles
• The power of spiritual discipline when life feels overwhelming
• How to choose an inner circle that pulls you in the right direction

Key Quote: "God's promises don't just give us something to read. They give us a way to breathe in the dark."

Pastor Stephen, Jay, and Wendy bring honest conversation and personal vulnerability to every episode of One Single Story, a daily Bible podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina.

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