2017!  Wow. It is a year that sounds like the future, a time and place so much better and advanced than our reality.  Didn't you think, hope, by 2017 we'd be further along, more advanced, sophisticated, civilized, balanced, just, fair?  Why aren't we?  What is holding us back?

Lots of people came to Jesus with these same questions and he totally shocked them with his answer.  This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright explored what Jesus seems to think is holding us back from the future we all want.

Just what is the meaning of Christmas?  It feels like a question that ends with an understood - "to you?"  And that is fine, it is something we should think about, but it assumes something doesn't it?  What does Christmas mean?  

This Saturday, at Storyline's Christmas Eve Gathering, Mike Gathright explored this question - and how it may help us all discover the meaning of Christmas...for ourselves.

Christmas is the world's most celebrated holiday... and it's not even close. Just this year, American's will spend 6 Billion Dollars on Christmas decorations alone!! But why? Why do we invest so much time and energy and money into this holiday over all of the others? What makes December 25th so special? 

This week at the Gathering, Paul Knapp asked these questions and explored why an ancient story from the 1st-century middle eastern world continues to capture an audience nearly 2,000 years later.

There are only fifteen shopping days left before Christmas! Are you done?  Maybe the better question is - have you started?  
This Sunday at Storyline's Gathering Mike Gathright considered the possibility that the greatest gift we could ever give would be ______ . 
The good news, it is free.  The even better news - giving this gift will change everything.