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."

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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."

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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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Welcome to One Single Story, your weekday guide through the One Year Bible. Host Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Wendy Korbusieski for a conversation on Psalm 119:33-48 -- what it means to be grounded in God's Word in an age of distraction, and why true obedience begins with a transformed heart, not stronger willpower.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 119:33-48 - The psalmist moves from striving to surrender, crying out with words like teach me, give me, and renew me -- the language of total dependency on God.

In This Episode:

• Why God's Word is the reset button our distracted minds desperately need
• How God's commands create freedom -- not restriction -- the way a train track makes a train useful
• Growing from keeping faith private to speaking it boldly, even in everyday moments

Key Quote: "Biblical freedom is not the right to do what we want. It is the power to do what we were made for."

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Welcome to One Single Story, Season 5 -- a weekday podcast where Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Sheryl Daughety walk through the One Year Bible one passage at a time. Today we are in John 12:20-50, where Jesus reframes death as a pathway to glory and calls his followers to walk in the light.

In This Episode:

* What it means that a seed must die to produce life -- and how that applies to Christ's sacrifice and our own daily surrender * Why resisting the light is always a choice, never an accident * How God's kingdom measures success by obedience and faithfulness, not visibility or outcomes

Key Quote: "Faithfulness is more important than visibility in the kingdom -- and obedience is more important than outcomes."

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Sheryl Daughety walk through the One Year Bible together. Today we are in John 11-12, looking at Mary's extravagant act of worship, the triumphal entry, and why the crowd so consistently misunderstood who Jesus was and why he came.

Scripture Focus: John 11-12 - As Jesus raises Lazarus and enters Jerusalem to the crowd's acclaim, Mary anoints his feet with costly perfume while Judas objects, and the religious leaders plot against them both.

In This Episode:

• What Mary's sacrifice reveals about true devotion -- and what Judas' reaction reveals about him
• Why Lazarus became a target simply because of what Jesus had done for him
• How misplaced expectations blinded the crowd to Jesus' far greater purpose
• What genuine, sacrificial worship actually costs -- and why it is so often misunderstood

Key Quote: "True worship has to have a cost associated with it. And when the house was filled with the fragrance of what she gave, other people benefit from what we sacrificially worship. What costs us something is a sweet aroma, not only to God but to the people around us."

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Welcome to One Single Story, the weekday podcast where we open the Word of God and draw out lessons from the One Year Bible reading plan. Today we are in John chapter 11 -- the raising of Lazarus -- and we are talking about why Jesus delayed, what his authority over death really means, and whether grief and faith can coexist in the same heart at the same time.

Scripture Focus: John 11 -- Jesus intentionally waits before going to Bethany. By the time he arrives, Lazarus has been in the tomb four days. What follows is a stunning display of Christ's power over death -- and a window into his full humanity, including grief, anger, and compassion.

In This Episode:

• Why Jesus delayed, and what it reveals about God's timing and purpose
• Jesus's emotional response at the tomb -- his anger and anguish -- and what it means that he felt deeply and still stayed in control
• The contrasting responses of Martha and Mary, and how our personalities shape the way we handle crisis
• How grief and faith are not mutually exclusive -- and why God prioritizes revelation over relief

Key Quote: "I don't think faith eliminates sorrow. It reframes it -- puts it in a different light."

One Single Story is a daily weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Subscribe wherever you listen, and join us tomorrow for the next conversation around the Word of God.

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Welcome to One Single Story, where each weekday Pastor Stephen Mizell and Jay Rivenbark and guest host sit down with one passage from the One Year Bible. Today Pastor Sheryl Daughety and the hosts dig into John 10:22-42, where Jesus declares "the Father and I are one" — one of the boldest claims to deity in all of Scripture — and the fierce reactions that follow.

Scripture Focus: John 10:22-42 - Jesus claims unity with the Father, defends his identity through his works, and divides every listener into one of two camps.

In This Episode:

• Why Jesus' claim to deity makes neutrality impossible — he is either who he says he is, or he is dangerous
• How miracles get attention but are never enough on their own to change a hardened heart
• Why people reject Jesus not because they misunderstand him, but because they do understand him and don't want to surrender control

Key Quote: "People don't reject Jesus because they don't understand him. They reject him because they do, and they don't want to give up the control."

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Welcome to One Single Story, your weekday guide through the One Year Bible. Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Sheryl Daughety for a conversation from John 10, exploring Jesus as the Good Shepherd, what it truly means to hear his voice, and how his leadership differs from anything the world has to offer.

Scripture Focus: John 10:1-21 - Jesus fulfills the Old Testament promise of a true shepherd, contrasting himself with leaders who exploit rather than serve.

In This Episode:

• What it means to recognize Jesus's voice in a world full of imitations
• Why Scripture is essential to discerning God's voice from counterfeits
• How Jesus redefined leadership through sacrifice instead of power
• What his willing death on the cross reveals about God's unchanging character

Key Quote: "The cross doesn't make God loving. It proves he always was."

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Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Alyssa Bream for the May 15th edition of One Single Story. Today's discussion centers on David and Goliath — and what it truly means to face overwhelming odds with faith instead of fear.

Scripture Focus: 1 Samuel 17:1 - 18:4 — Young David steps forward to face the Philistine giant Goliath while the entire army of Israel stands paralyzed, and what follows in the aftermath of his remarkable victory.

In This Episode:

• Why David's confidence came from a history of faithfulness, built through past battles with a lion and a bear
• How strength is redefined not as size or resources, but as dependence on God
• The modern giants we face today — fear, anxiety, depression, and the pressures of comparison and social media

Key Quote: "The size of your God determines the size of your courage."

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