The Gathering

t seems as if every part of our world, from school to the internet and even religion, is designed to give us answers.  In fact, we live in the Age of Answers and yet...

This week at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright continued to look at the questions God asks us and what they can show us about ourselves, our lives and how to move forward even when answers elude us.  

Human history, religion and even our own life is full of questions we ask God.  Good questions, fair questions...hard questions.  But have you ever wondered...what is God asking us?

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored some of the questions God is asking and what that might tell us about Him, ourselves and our life.

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.”  

At one point, every ritual and tradition was new...an innovation!  A brand new way to express and experience something beyond explanation.  Over time, when we lose touch with the original intent, the spirit of the ritual fades and we either give them up or go through the motions.

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored how Jesus chose to innovate, reframe and recast the ritual baptism in way that plunged it right into the middle of real life.

Life is full of stories. Stories that inform, illuminate, inspire, entertain, and call us to action… and then there are the stories we tell ourselves. The stories we use to convince ourselves that “everything will be all right…” or “maybe it won’t.” But what if there was a bigger story. One that was for all of us. One that calls us into community and mission together.
 
This Father’s Day Paul Knapp explored the story that our Heavenly Father might be telling and what that could mean for us and our world.

It is graduation season and every commencement speech is another reminder that we are supposed to do something with our lives.  But have you ever wondered...why?  

Jesus showed up with a totally unique and extremely controversial view of what God wants from us and why.  This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright looked at how Jesus totally transformed what it means to do something with our lives.

"What will you do without freedom?"  That is the question William Wallace asked in the film, Braveheart.  But an equally important question is - what will you do with it?

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering, as we celebrated our graduates, Mike Gathright reminded us what Jesus claims we can be free from...and what we could be free for. 

On Memorial Day weekend we remember and honor those who have given their lives serving in our Armed Forces.  It is a powerful reminder that freedom isn't free.

This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered what freedom is and why it is so highly valued in every realm of life.  

Over the past three weeks, Mike Gathright has defined these ideas as core elements of these great stories of life. However, each of these ideas is unique to all of us. We all find our hope, our meaning, and our satisfaction in uniquely different spaces. Right?

This week at the Gathering, Paul Knapp contemplated whether or not it is truly our uniqueness that defines our humanity, or is something even bigger, better, and more beautiful.

Every great story and every great hero need hope and meaning. But it can't stop there!  Hope provides the inspiration, meaning the motivation - but for what?  

This Sunday, on Mother's Day, s Mike Gathright considered what every great story is driving at and every mother longs for.