The Gathering

Happy New Year!  Let's see, how long will my resolutions last?  Why are they so hard to keep?

What if there was a resolution that could change our lives that wasn't about what we could make happen, but something we could let happen?  This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will look at a new kind of resolution.

Every community has distinctives...that is what makes a group a community.  Jesus dismissed the distinctives of class, gender, race, ethnicity, nation, religion, and politics we use to form community and created something never seen before.

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored how Jesus created community and the enormous challenge and opportunity it for us.

"What do you want?"  That is the refrain of the season, right?  And it is a great question - one that is often hard to answer.  But, how about this one, "what does God want?"

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will take a look at this question
and how Christmas might help us answer it.

Charles Dickens wrote, "It is good to be children sometimes, never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself." 

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered how community and Christmas and childhood can all work together.

Why are the things that are good for us often so hard? Why is exercise difficult and ice cream yummy? Why is living in community both critical and complicated?

As we continue to explore the depths and difficulties of community this Sunday, Mike Gathright will consider why it is so good for us and the world and yet so hard.

If love, community, and friendship are the reason behind life and the reason for life, the question Rodney King asked America in the midst of the 1992 L.A. Riot, "Why can't we all just get along?" is no less important today.

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered this question and the challenging yet inspiring invitation the God of Grace if offering us all.

Could any one thing rightly be called the foundation of everything, of all of life and existence itself?  Is it possible that everything finds its beginning and end, its source and goal, in one thing.

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright will delve into these questions and the simple and beautiful yet challenging and transforming assertion Jesus makes about them.

What are the components of an ideal community? Are "ideal" communities even possible in today's world? This week at the Gathering, we examined these questions in a conversation with our friend and fellow Storyliner Chris Mason, co-founder of Watermark Brewing Co. in downtown Stevensville. 

People.  Sheeesshhh! Why is life together so difficult?  Why can't we just all get along? What drives us apart? What brings us together?  Is it worth it?

These are some of the questions Mike Gathright considered in Storyline's new series about community, that began this Sunday. 

We all have a story. No matter how long or dramatic, each of us has a unique set of moments and experiences that have shaped us into the people we are today. This week at the Gathering we heard some of those stories from friends of storyline in our semi-annual “Story Sunday.”