General Theme for the Week: Can I trust God in my everyday life?

Today's Lesson: "Can God Work through all this Drama?"

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sheryl Daughety discuss the following questions:

What message do we get about God's character from a story that mixes God's promise with such drama between flawed humans?

Has there ever been a time when you have had drama, or emotional conflict with another person, eventually you saw where God used that situation in a unique way?

Where is God during extreme relationship issues? (E.g. Love triangles? Mistreatment and injustice? Sex that is only "transactional", or convenient?)

The reading for the day is Genesis 16.

General Theme for the Week: Can I trust God in my everyday life?

Today's Lesson: "Do I Believe in God, or do I Just Want His Stuff?"

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sheryl Daughety discuss the following questions:

How do you know if you are believing in God, rather than believing God simply because of the things he has promised you?

Can you give an example of a time when you thought you were believing God, but your true motives were revealed when you encountered a difficult problem?

The reading for the day is Genesis 15.

General Theme for the Week: Can I trust God in my everyday life?

Today's Lesson: "The God of Creation, and the God of the Nations is the God of my Personal Life!"

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sheryl Daughety discuss the following questions:

What does this mean for us? Are the mundane ordinary things of every day life are connected to God's overall plan in salvation history?

How does it change the way that we live, love, and work if we view our daily lives as part of God's overall plan for humanity?

The reading for the day is Genesis 14.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sharon Schwartz discuss the following questions:

What are some ways that this passage might be applied if it were misinterpreted outside of its social context?

There is so much social pressure on American Christians in this generation. How much influence should social context have on our daily decisions?

The subject of this passage is not modesty of dress, but how our dress choices can and do communicate to others about Christ. What do our fashion choices say to others about Christ?

The reading for the day is 1 Corinthians 11.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sharon Schwartz discuss the following questions:

If Jesus was sitting beside me, would I watch this movie?

If God gave me an opportunity to witness to someone while I am here in this particular place, would my being here hinder my witness?

The reading for the day is 1 Corinthians 10.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sharon Schwartz discuss the following questions:

Has there ever been something you know you had Scriptural permission to do, but felt like it was better for you to not do it?

Can you think of any examples of when it would be more beneficial, for the sake of bringing others to Jesus, to go against what is socially acceptable in our culture?

The reading for the day is 1 Corinthians 9.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sharon Schwartz discuss the following questions:

Are there actions in our personal lives that might cause others to misunderstand what we believe?

Are we required to change every single thing we do or say just because it might offend someone? Especially in this culture of social media?

The reading for the day is 1 Corinthians 8.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Sharon Schwartz discuss the following questions:

What are our assumptions as believers about a person who has chosen to be single?

Is celibacy a "spiritual gift"?

Are singleness and celibacy really feasible in our culture? How have our personal and cultural perspectives influenced our opinions about singleness and celibacy?

The reading for the day is 1 Corinthians 7.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Jay Rivenbark discuss the following questions:

Western Society presents tremendous compassion for animals. People who are hateful to other people are often incredibly kind and compassionate toward animals. Does this represent a conflict?

Is it possible that the reason people can be hateful to other people and compassionate to animals is due to the presence of morals in humans and the absence of morals in animals?

Do you have other theories as to why God used the amoral animal kingdom to respond to Jobs' questions?

The reading for the day is Job 39.

On this edition of One Single Story, Pastors Stephen Mizell and Jay Rivenbark discuss the following questions:

Why does God choose to deliver wisdom in the midst of chaos in our personal lives?

What kind of emotions do you imagine Job felt as God was addressing him through the medium of a whirlwind, especially in light of the fact that a great storm was responsible for taking the lives of his own children?

The reading for the day is Job 38.