The StoryChanger: Recent Episodes
with David Murray and guests
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a Biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Summary: Living with purpose is the only way to really live. Everything else is just existing.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 40)
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Summary: A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will make you a great Christian.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 39)
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Summary: You have a choice to make. You will be either a world-class Christian or a worldly Christian.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 38)
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Summary: God has given you a life message to share.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 37)
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Summary: Jesus sends us into the world to call sinners out of the world and to him.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 36)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: God loves to use weak people.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 35)
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Summary: Think like a servant to act like a servant
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 34)
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Summary: God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 33)
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Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
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Summary: God wants us to accept our SHAPE and enjoy developing it and using it in his service.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 32)
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Meribeth is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: God uses six experiences in our past to shape us for future service.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 31)
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Summary: We can discover our unique purpose by discovering our unique God-given SHAPE.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 30-31)
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Summary: God created each person with a unique, special, and valuable area of expertise to serve him and others
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 30)
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Summary: You’ve been created, saved, called, and commanded to serve God with a special personal assignment.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 29)
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Summary: Christlikeness is our eventual destination, but our journey will last a lifetime.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 28)
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Summary: We grow through temptation by defeating it with God’s strategies.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 27)
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Summary: Temptation is a stepping stone not a stumbling block to growth
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 26)
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Summary: Spiritual growth happens when we replace lies with truth.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 25)
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Summary: Spiritual growth happens when we replace lies with truth.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 24)
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Meribeth is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: Change your thoughts to change your feelings to change your actions
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 24)
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Summary: Christlikeness is the result of making Christlike choices and depending on his Spirit to help you fulfill those choices.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 23)
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Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
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Summary: From the very beginning, God’s plan has been to make you like his Son, Jesus
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 22)
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Summary: Jesus commissions every believer to protect and strengthen the unity of the church.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 21)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: Learning to love involves restoring broken fellowships.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 20)
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Summary: The Holy Spirit cultivates Christian community through our choices and commitments.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 19)
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Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Summary: Every Christian needs to be involved in a small group within their church, whether it is a home fellowship group, a Sunday school class, or a Bible study. This is where real community takes place, not in the big gatherings.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 18)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: God designed the church specifically to help you fulfill the five purposes he has for your life: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 17)
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Summary: Love should be our top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 16)
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Julia is a refugee from Russia's war against Ukraine. In this podcast she shares her testimony of how the Lord has been helping her through the early days of the war, before escaping to Poland, then finding refuge with Christians in New Covenant Bible Church, Illinois.
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Summary: God wants a family and he created you to be a part of it.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 15)
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Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Summary: God made every part of us and every part of our lives to worship him
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 13)
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Summary: We are as close to God as we choose to be.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 12)
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Summary: God wants to be our best friend and has shared six secrets to friendship with him.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 11)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: True worship happens when we give ourselves completely up to God.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 10)
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Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Summary: God wants to smile at us and on us and therefore tells us how to make him smile.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 9)
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Summary: We exist for God’s benefit, glory, purpose, enjoyment, and delight.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 8)
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Summary: We fulfill God’s purpose and our purpose when we bring glory to God.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 8)
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Summary: Everything and everyone is from God’s purpose and for God’s glory.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 7)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: Change the way you view your life to change the way you live your life.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 5-6)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: Living for eternity changes the way we live in time and forever.
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The Purpose Driven Life(Day 4)
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Summary: Whoever your driver is, he decides where you go and how you get there.
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The Purpose Driven Life (Day 3)
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Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
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Summary: God planned you, your life-story, and your part in his bigger story.
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The Purpose Driven Life (Day 2)
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Summary: Because we were made by God and for God we find our purpose by starting with God not self.
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The Purpose Driven Life (Day 1)
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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Summary: God has a wise purpose for your life and all the tiny pieces of it
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The Purpose Driven Life (Day 1)
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Ty Joseph is married with two children and works in electronics. He's a deacon in his local church, an evangelist, and host of the YouTube channel Valor Mode. Ty has a passion for encouraging Christians with compelling and compassionate Apologetics.
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A series of twenty Advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
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A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Ty Joseph is married with two children and works in electronics. He's a deacon in his local church, an evangelist, and host of the YouTube channel Valor Mode. Ty has a passion for encouraging Christians with compelling and compassionate Apologetics.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Jean Gomes is Pastor of Discipleship at First Byron CRC.
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A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Seob Kim is pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church ARP.
You can find him on Facebook and YouTube.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Jo de Blois works at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Ty Joseph is married with two children and works in electronics. He's a deacon in his local church, an evangelist, and host of the YouTube channel Valor Mode. Ty has a passion for encouraging Christians with compelling and compassionate Apologetics.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Jean Gomes is Pastor of Discipleship at First Byron CRC.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
A series of twenty advent devotionals on why Jesus was born.
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Today I'm chatting with Kelli about how God's Story changed her story of eating disorder and how it was rooted in a control disorder. It's a beautiful story of how submitting to God's control is the only way to enjoy life-control.
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StoryChanger Devotional: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
StoryChanger Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
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In today's podcast, we hear six stories from six Christians about the way God is changing their stories with his Story.
1:34 I share my encounter with a Kodiak Bear during my recent trip to Alaska and how I learned the importance of being spiritually armed for spiritual confidence.
7:16 Jo's first onion harvest encouraged her that nutritional value is more important that size.
12:06 Ty helps us hear God's voice by helping us understand God's different love languages.
17:02 Meribeth uses her time stuck behind a yellow school bus to remind herself and us that God knows our story.
21:21 Small pains can heal us from big pains, as Pastor Jean found out when his little son dislocated his elbow.
26:23 How much does God enjoy us falling into his arms? Seob found out the answer to that question when playing with his young daughter.
Meet our storytellers here.
StoryChanger Devotional: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
StoryChanger Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
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Today I interview Barb Walker a member of First Byron CRC. Barb begins with a five-minute summary of the story God’s been writing in her life in recent years. It’s a story about suffering a serious stroke followed by a cancer diagnosis. In other words, it’s not a story she would have written herself, but it’s a story God wrote and is writing.
Barb and I then discuss what God’s been teaching her through this story and then review some older chapters including her adoption, her meeting her birth mother later in life, her abusive first marriage, her happy and blessed second marriage to David, the role of singing in her Christian life, and her favorite Bible verses.
I hope you will be as blessed as I was in listening to Barb’s testimony as I was when we chatted together about how the StoryChanger is changing her story with His Story.
StoryChanger Devotional: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
StoryChanger Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray.
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray.
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
This is a series of prayerful meditations based upon the daily devotionals in the new StoryChanger book Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy.
Read the devotional and then move the words deeper into your heart by joining me in this worshipful meditation on the content.
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:22 StoryChanger Devotional: God's Two Homes (Isaiah 57)
6:16 A Party in the Heart with Jo de Blois
11:00 Hero on a Mission: The Guide
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:49 StoryChanger Devotional: Why should I keep the Sabbath holy? (Isaiah 56:1-8)
7:39 Racing with Pastor Jean Gomes and his two-year-old son.
12:12 Hero on a Mission
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
1:10 StoryChanger Devotional: Are you a searcher? (Isaiah 55)
8:34 Are you a doubter by Seob Kim
15:55 Are you a villain?
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:30 StoryChanger Devotional: How does God comfort the depressed? (Isaiah 54)
6:48 How does God change our comfort mindset? by Ty Joseph
10:16 How do we escape the victim mindset?
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
StoryChanger Devotional: What's your price tag? (Isaiah 53)
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:14 How to put the Amazing Back into Grace (Isaiah 52:13-15)
7:47 What is your heart? by Meribeth Schierbeek
12:31 5 Reasons to Be All In at Church by Thom Rainer
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
1:31 What is Revival (Isiah 52:1-12)
8:37 The Key to Friendship by Jo de Blois
13:40 Helps for Daily Devotions in the Digital Deluge
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:33 How to be a courageous witness for Christ? (Isaiah 51:4-23)
5:42 Daily Devotions in the Digital Age
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
0:17 StoryChanger Devotional: The Mine and the Miner (Isaiah 51:1-4)
6:20 Social Media Stats and Teens
5 New Stats about Teens and Social Media
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
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1:24 The StoryChanger Devotional: Is God able and willing to save me? (Isaiah 50)
7:26 Why do we suffer by Jo de Blois
12:57 The Suffering of Tim Challies
When Good Took Away: His Goodness in my Grief by Tim Challies
Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God by Tim Challies
New Book: Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
The StoryChanger book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His by David Murray
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0:19 StoryChanger Devotional: Has the Lord forgotten me> (Isaiah 49:14-26)
6:53 Fighting sin within by Seob Kim
12:53 A New Daily Devotional
Luke: Stories of Mission and Mercy by David Murray
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:23 StoryChanger Devotional: How can I be happy in a world that's so sad? (Isaiah 49:1-13)
7:17 The BB Gun Disaster
11:59 Getting our Teens Ready for College
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:21 StoryChanger Devotional: How does God react to our act? (Isaiah 48)
- I will teach you (3-8)
- I will spare you (9-11)
- I will deliver you (11-16)
- I will bless you (17-18)
How does God react to our act? He acts with great mercy so that we react in genuine faith. Therefore, stop acting and react with genuine faith to God’s great acts of mercy.
6:42 Critters are also Creatures by Jo de Blois
10:58 The John 10:10 Project
A shorter podcast than usual because I'm traveling but here's a meditation on Isaiah 46 that I hope will be a blessing to you.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:22 StoryChanger Devotional: How Big is God's Salvation (Isaiah 45:14-25)
7:13 Why I'm deleting Facebook by Jo de Blois
12:45 What your Eyes have Seen by Brianna Lambert.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:30 StoryChanger Devotional: Behind the Headlines (Isaiah 45:1-13)
6:44 Disabilities Ministry
New Resolve After 55 Years in My Wheelchair by Joni Eareckson Tada
11:23 I Will Sing by Jari Jobe
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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Today's podcast is a but different in that I interview two CRC pastors about the recent CRC Synod and how it may impact the future of the CRC. The two pastors are Chad Steenwyk of Central Avenue Reformed Church in Holland, MI, and Tyler Wagenmaker of Beaverdam CRC, MI.
Both pastors are involved in the Abide Project which is working for the Christian Reformed Church to uphold the historic, beautiful, Biblical understanding of human sexuality in doctrine, discipleship, and discipline.
0:21 StoryChanger Devotional: A Welcome for Wanderers (Isaiah 44:21-28)
5:46 Personal Autonomy or God's Authority by Meribeth Schierbeek
10:34 A Punishment-Free Relationship With God
Why we don’t punish our kids by Sara Wallace
Sermon notes: Discipline for the Disobedient
God's Discipline: A Word of Encouragement in the Midst of Hardship by Tim Chester
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our S
tory By Inviting Us Into His
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0:31: StoryChanger Devotional How do we stop others (or ourselves) sinning? (Isaiah 44:9-20)
6:10 Why should we heal the wounds from our past? by Jo de Blois
11:51: Why are some Christians chastised more than others?
Sermon notes: Discipline for the Disobedient
God's Discipline: A Word of Encouragement in the Midst of Hardship by Tim Chester
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:20 StoryChanger Devotional: Identity Wars (Isaiah 44:1-8)
8:04 From the Occult to Christ. Seob Kim's testimony.
15:50 Two times God disciplined me
Sermon notes: Discipline for the Disobedient
God's Discipline: A Word of Encouragement in the Midst of Hardship by Tim Chester
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:35 StoryChanger Devotional: How can I be forgiven this time? (Isaiah 43:10-28)
6:40 No Excuses by Meribeth Schierbeek
11:08 Why am I suffering? Further discussion on chastisement.
Sermon notes: Discipline for the Disobedient
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:28 StoryChanger Devotional: What Does God think of me? (Isaiah 43:1-9)
4:32 Following a State Trooper and Following Jesus
9:20 My evening with DudePerfect
Dude Perfect website
Dude Perfect YouTube Channel
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:20 StoryChanger Devotional: What's the purpose of God's military show? (Isaiah 42:10-19)
6:19 My naked radio interview.
9:38 Catching the Discipleship Germ
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:16 StoryChanger Devotional: Who can I trust with my future? (Isaiah 42:1-9)
6:56 A Motorcycle Accident
12:51 Scrolling Alone
Why Our Attention Needs Stewardship by Katie Westenberg
Scrolling Alone: How Instagram Is Making a Generation of Girls Lonely, Anxious, and Sad with Sarah Zylstra
Social Sanity in an Insta World
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:20 StoryChanger Devotional: How can I recover from a heavy defeat? (Isaiah 41:21-29)
6:54: Should I debate an atheist?
12:03 How can I get more out of church?
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:23 StoryChanger Devotional: What's going on? (Isaiah 41:1-20)
7:37 God protects through a drugged dog by Jo de Blois
14:06 International Student Ministries
An Unexpected Field for Ministry
The Light of the World: How Jesus is Reaching International Students
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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00:16 StoryChanger Devotional: Energy Boost for the Spiritually Tired (Isaiah 40:28-31)
3:42: Why I left the Seminary
9:19 No Michelin Stars for Pastors
No Michelin Stars for Pastors: Leaders Must Serve the Church, Not Glorify Themselves by Cody Willbanks
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:37 The StoryChanger Devotional: 20 Comforting Questions (Isaiah 40:12-28)
4:58 How would you encourage someone with a messy or painful story?
8:32 Why some kjds leave church and some stay in it.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:24 StoryChanger Devotional: What is the good news? (Isaiah 40:9-11)
5:53: How can we help a depressed Christian who is doubting or losing their faith?
13:35 How can we care better for the abused?
What Can the Church Do About Child Protection?Domestic Abuse was worse than Persecution
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:40 StoryChanger Devotional: A Comfort Specialist (Isaiah 40:1-8)
8:27 Save the T-Bone by Pastor Jean Gomes.
12:42 An Apostate Pastor
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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1:19 StoryChanger Devotional: What is a man? (1 Corinthians 16:5-24)
8:16: What piece of furniture would you be? by Meribeth Schierbeek
12:12 Helping the Christians in Ukraine
Rev. Franklin Graham reveals war's impact on Christians in Ukraine but also the hope of God
Courage to Stand Video.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:42 StoryChanger devotional: How should we give? (1 Corinthians 16;1-4)
5:07 What's your purpose? Why are you here on earth? Jo de Blois helps us find the purpose of our stories.
9:30 A look at how our cultural story or personal story influences our view of manhood, sometimes more than God's Story does.
Two Stories of Manhood by Alastair Roberts
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:47 StoryChanger Devotional: The Christian Trans Movement (1 Corinthians 15:50-58)
6:46 Changing Your Mixer: Lessons from a podcasting problem
10:10 Transformation of a Transgender Teen
Transformation of a Transgender Teen by Sarah Zylstra
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:44 StoryChanger Devotional: What will our resurrection bodies be like? (1 Corinthians 15:35-49)
6:16 Meribeth explains what a spiritual wedgie is!
11:00 Seven benefits from my failures
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:30 StoryChanger Devotional: How does belief in the resurrection change our story (1 Corinthians 15:29-34)
5:18 How much evil is enough? by Jo de Blois
10:56 What kind of story does cannabis write?
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:01 How can a Brit celebrate the 4th of July?
1:08 Why is Christ's resurrection story so important?
4:49 What's your favorite writing instrument? by Meribeth Schierbeeck
10:37 Some painful Amazon reviews of The StoryChanger.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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1:29 Daily Devotional: Tips from a Media Training Day (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
6:17 "Who can I trust ?" with Jo de Blois
10:41 Writing Tips
Your Story Matters by Leslie Leyland Fields
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:27 Daily Devotional: How do we decide how to do church? (1 Corinthians 14)
4:53: A Stolen Purse
11:13: Telling a Better Story About Christianity
No Christianity is not as bad as you think by Josh Howerton
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:32 Daily Devotional: Why is Love the Best Spiritual Gift (1 Corinthians 13:4-13)
6:00 Meribeth Schierbeek rips of a band-aid.
10:53 How to get blocked by me on social media
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:40 Daily Devotional: What's the best spiritual gift? (1 Corinthians 12:27-13:3)
4:44: Hot Tub Christianity
Laid-Back Religion by J I Packer
10:34 Pro-Eternal-Life
After Roe, How do we Stand for Life? by Lauren Mcafee.
Free eBook: The Case for Life
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:38 Daily Devotional: Body-Shaming (1 Corinthians 12:14-27)
4:48 Jo de Blois goes to her garage to learn about how to escape from shame.
10:46 Douglas Murray highlights our culture's confusion about shame.
Our Shifting Definition of Shame by Douglas Murray
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:18 Daily Devotional: A Cure for Church Divisions (1 Corinthians 12:1-11)
6:05 What is your faith in? Ty Joseph reflects on a lesson he learned when his family visited the Ark Encounter.
9:07 My vision for pastoral care and counseling in our church family.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:21 "The Family that Eats Together Stays Together"
6:06 My Vision for a Deeper Church
10:34 Pro-lifers step up by raising $40,000 to help teen mother of twins who was "forced to give birth" to them.
Here's the Washington Post Article that started it all.
Here's a critique of the article.
Here's the Go Fund Me page.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:22 Daily Devotional: What is male headship (1 Corinthians 11:1-16)
On Headcoverings by Barry York
5:37 What makes us fall? by Jo De Blois
10:55 Has Reformation started in the CRC?
The CRC’s valiant stand and Calvin’s moment of truth by Steven Wedgeworth
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:30 Daily Devotional: How do I make decisions in the gray areas? (1 Corinthians 10:23-31)
4:47 A fishing disaster which taught me about prayer.
9:47 No Father's Day.
America's Crisis is a Lack of Fathers
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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Do you struggle to live in a challenging multi-faith society? Do you battle pessimism? Or have you even slipped into depression? Let's use God's Story to change our stories.
0:48 Daily Devotional: How do we navigate living in a multi-faith society? (1 Corinthians 10:14-21)
7:53 Getting from pessimism to optimism by Jo De Blois
13:03 Practical helps for depression. I share some of the practical remedies that I and others have found helpful in dealing with depression.
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:29 Daily Devotional: Terrible Temptations (1 Corinthians 10:13)
4:23 Dad Temptations
Jim Daly''s article and video on Dad's Report Card
Dad's Report Card (Download)
7:13 LGBT Temptations
Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness by Eric Kaufman
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:42 Daily Devotional: Why are there so many stories in the Bible? (1 Corinthians 10:6-12)
4:55 Skipping Leg Day by Jo De Blois
9:55 How to learn from your past
New Book: The StoryChanger: How God Rewrites Our Story By Inviting Us Into His
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0:25 Check your privilege (1 Corinthians 10:1-6)
5:56 Using our past stories to change our future stories.
13:25 From Gay to Gospel
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Buy the new book: The Story
0:28 Learning from Athletes
6:05 The StoryChanger Book
Buy at Amazon or Crossway.
8:09 The Fatherhood Crisis.
Sermon notes here.
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0:00 Introduction
0:19 Winning Souls (1 Corinthians 9:19-23)
5:45 Winning Stories
How the Best Stories Point Kids to Christ by Kathryn Butler
8:44 Winning Feelings
How to Test and Cultivate Your Feelings by Darren Carlson
The Psalms Know what you feel by Marshall Segal
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0:00 Introduction
0:25 Daily Devotional (1 Corinthians 9:11-18)
PreachersNSneakers
5:29 The Right Ending by Ty Joseph
Resources for Changing our Story with God's Story
10:29 Preventing Domestic Abuse
A Call to Raise Daughters Wise to Domestic Abuse by Jeremy Pierre
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0:00 Introduction
0:16 Daily Devotional (1 Corinthians 9:1-10)
5:47 Discipleship by Multiplication
222Disciple.com
10:10 Resources for Changing our stories with God's Story
How Can We Measure Spiritual Growth? by Tim Challies
The Most Important Question for Graduates by Trevor Nashleanas
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0:00 Introduction
0:19 How do we handle gray areas? (1 Corinthians 8:7-13)
6:50 Is God exasperated with us? by Jo De Blois
12:10 Sexual Abuse and the Southern Baptist Convention
The Reckoning of the Lord by Al Mohler
This is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse by Russell Moore
Hearing the Warning of the SBC by Samuel James
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0:00 Intro
0:17 What's life all about? (1 Corinthians 8:4-6)
3:45 What are you thirsty for? by Merbieth Schierbeek
8:15 Resources to Change our Story with God's Story
Encouragement for the Depressed
New Name Written Down in Glory
Hallelujah Christ Shall Come Again.
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0:00 Intro
0:19 Know-it-all's or Love-it-alls
4:18 Are you a performer? by Meribeth Schierbeek
11:04 Resources for Changing our Stories with God's Story
Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God by Tim Challies
A Sentence to Bring Down Abortion by John Ensor
Four Questions to help us answer the crisis of abortion with the Gospel of Life.
The Blessing of Rest by Guy Richard
Hallelujah, Christ will Come Again by Shane and Shane
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Some solutions to marriage difficulties, evangelism difficulties, and culture difficulties.
0:00 Introduction
0:23 The Difficulties of Marriage
4:32 The Difficulties of Evangelism by Jo De Blois
10:07 Resources for Changing our stories with God's Story
Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman
Strange New World: A Review of Carl Trueman's book by Shane Morris
Gospel Light in Latin America’s Darkest Country by Sarah Zylstra
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0:00 Introduction
00:25 How should we view our work?
6:05 What alarm are you hearing? by Meribeth Schierbeek
10:53 Resources for changing our stories with God's story.
Be Still my Soul by Kari Jobe
More than Catch-and-Release: A Vision for Making Disciples by Matthew Bennett
Complex PTSD: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma by Pete Walker
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0:00 Intro
0:30 "Why did God design marriage?"
5:46 "Which of the five love languages does God enjoy most?"
12:17 Resources for changing our stories with God's story.
Does God care about our happiness? by Amy Demarcangelo
A Hunger for More: Finding Satisfaction in Jesus When the Good Life Doesn't Fill You by Amy Demarcaneglo
Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma Being Well Podcast with Dr Rick Hanson
Jordan Peterson on the Bible not just being true but being the precondition of truth. Watch video here.
Jireh by Maverick City
Getting a biblical theology of sex will help protect and progress our holiness.
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How should we glorify God with our bodies? Glorify God in your body by giving it to the God who made it, saved it, filled it, and bought it.
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How does God's light frighten and free? When the snakes wake up.
Jo DeBlois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Who can change our story from stuck to transformed, and how does that happen? Rewrite your story now and forever by believing the StoryChanger’s story.
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How do we grow a new identity? Jo takes us to the onion patch and finds a new identity there.
Jo DeBlois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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How should we relate to sin in the world and sin and the church?
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How important is church discipline? Use it to cure the cancer of sin and live a healthy truth based lifestyle.
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When and how should we discipline? Discipline unrepentant Christians with tears, with counsel, and in the name of Jesus for their salvation.
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What’s the safest altitude for piloting our soul? Fly low for a safe soul.
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Jo takes a walk in the woods and discovers mysteries that help mindfulness.
Jo DeBlois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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How much do you enjoy undeserved kindness?
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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What's the most neglected model of the Christian life? (1 Corinthians 4:1-5)
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God heals our wounded minds which often imagine enemies where there are none.
Jo DeBlois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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Spiritual socialism is biblical and a blessing.
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Meribeth looks for meaning in our tears.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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When it comes to your Christian service, build with highest quality of materials for the highest quality of reward.
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What is the fuel of life? Jo fills us up with hope, the fuel of life.
Jo DeBlois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
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How should we view ministers who have been a blessing to us? Grow in maturity so that you see God far more than his ministers.Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
What's the "four-ones" Bible reading method? It's Joe Carter's short and simple method to increase our Bible reading and Bible engagement.
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“How do I train or build my mind muscle?”
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We change our stories by ruling our minds before it rules us.
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
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“Is there anything the human mind cannot do?” Ask God for the wisdom we don’t even know we’re missing and that he alone can give.
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Why is weakness better than strength in spiritual life? When we are strong, God steps away; when we are weak God, steps up and our faith stands up.
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If you have a love-hate relationship with food rules, Meribeth has a message for you.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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What makes our yokes easier and our burdens lighter? The power of vulnerability
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
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How can we stop human boasting? God stops human boasting by starting God-boasting.Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
"These are the best years of your life. You're going to miss this!" Really?
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women.
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What role has human power and human wisdom in salvation? Look to God’s power and wisdom alone in Christ alone for a strong and wise salvation.Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
How can we go from "victim" to "survivor"? The Bible and Post Traumatic Growth.
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
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How do we stop or heal church divisions? Rip out the roots if you don’t want the bitter fruits of church splits.Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
Ty challenges the science that puts limits on our unlimited God.
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How will I keep up the Christian faith? Trust God to start, supply, and sustain from beginning to end.Visit thestorychanger.life for more resources on changing our story with God's Story.
How do I know if I’m called? Call on the caller to prove your calling.
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Jo looks enviously at the birds and asks, "How can I be as free as a bird?"
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Our Christian lives and our mental health depend on our ability to reframe events and experiences.
Reading: Mark 4:35-41.
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Jo helps us separate our identity from our roles.
Reading: John 13:3-5
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
“Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.”
Reading: Matthew 6:25-34
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Jo builds some Jesus-like boundaries
Reading: Luke 8:40-53
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Here's how Christ changed my story of depression with his Story of joy.
Reading: John 15:10-11
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Jo continues to explore Christian identity by introducing us to her role model in the Bible.
Reading: John 20:1-18
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
God used medicine therapy to change Julie's story and he can do the same for us.
Reading: James 1:17
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God used elephant therapy to change Dan's story and he can do the same for us.
Reading: Psalm 77
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God used story therapy to change Joshua's story and he can do the same for us.
Reading: Joshua 1:1-9
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Overcoming procrastination today.
Reading: Proverbs 14:23
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Ty shares a story of how he helped a colleague think differently about creation.
Reading: Hebrews 11:3.
Ty Joseph is married with two children and works in electronics. He's a deacon in his local church, an evangelist, and host of the YouTube channel Valor Mode. Ty has a passion for encouraging Christians with compelling and compassionate Apologetics.
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Men and women: Similarities and differences.
Reading: Genesis 3:27-28
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Imogen's story helps us learn to use our imagination for our good not our harm.
Reading: Matthew 6: 25-34
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Sam's story reminds us us that emotional education is medicinal education.
Reading: Ps. 56:3
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How to turn regret into restoration.
Reading: Hebrews 11:17-19
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Like jigsaw puzzles, our stories can have missing pieces or pieces that don’t fit. One of the biggest missing or misfitting pieces in the secular story is how to account for evil. Most modern secular stories are optimistic about finding and living the good life, but don’t have a place for the piece called ‘evil’ that always appears to wreck our stories and our puzzles. How do we explain the problem of evil?A summary of chapter 8 of Telling a Better Story .
Podcast notes
Reading: Genesis 3:14-15; Romans 16:20
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How to turn regret into restoration.
Reading: Acts 3:17-21
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For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and other deep thinkers, have asked the question, “What is the good life?” Until recently, the majority answered the question in moral terms. They may have disagreed on the details, but all agreed that the good life involved shunning certain vices and seeking certain virtues, which may or may not have had their basis in a divine being.
Ask the same question today, “What is the good life?” and you’ll hear a very different story. For the vast majority, the good life is about good feelings not good morals. The goal in life is not goodness but happiness.
A summary of chapter 8 of Telling a Better Story .
Podcast notes
Reading: Luke 18:18-23
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Today, we're turning to the chapter in our books entitled "My Idol Factory."
Reading: Exodus 20:3; Psalm 37:4
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No one outgrows the need of restorative human relationships.
Reading: John 19:25-27
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Christian and non-Christian agree, finding love is the most important part of being human?
But what does love mean and how do we find it? We are not at all agreed on that, as chapter 7 of Telling a Better Story explains.
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Reading: Ephesians 5:22-31
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'Social justice' originated in Christian thought and flowed out of the belief in divine justice. Today, 'social justice' is widely used by people who do not believe in God, never mind divine justice. Can you have human justice without divine justice? Can you have social justice without spiritual justice? Chapter 7 of Telling a Better Story says "No."
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Reading: Romans 3:21-26
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Moving From our supper to the Lord's Supper.
Reading: Mark 14:22-25
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Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for woman.
We can be as close to God as we want to be.
Reading: James 4:8
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For a culture that says there are no morals, we have surprisingly severe penalties for moral failures. Hardly a day goes by without amoral celebrities condemning other amoral celebrities for their ‘immoral’ views of sex, gender, race, global warming, COVID vaccines, or Donald Trump.
Where does our much-denied but irresistible moral sense come from? In chapter 7 of Telling a Better Story Josh Chatrow trains us to guide people from the secular narrative of morality to the sacred narrative.
Podcast Notes
Reading: Romans 2:12-16
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How much are you worth? What dollar figure would you put on your value? Everyone wants to be highly valued, to feel that they are worth a lot. How is that calculated?
In Chapter 7 of Telling a Better Story, Josh Chatrow guides us from a false to a true valuation.
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Reading: Acts 20:28
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Meribeth encourages us to recline at the Gospel table.
Reading: Luke 22:14, 27
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Ever painted something with the wrong color? Jo did it twice but learned two important spiritual lessons in the process.
Reading: 1 John 1:5-9
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Ever heard of ‘Sheilaism’? No, neither had I until I read chapter 7 of Telling a Better Story by Josh Chatrow. It’s how a young nurse called Sheila describes her religion. “It’s Sheilaism. Just my own little voice.”
Reading: John 14:6
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Everyone loves a love-story. No one loves a death-story. Yet, all of us have a death-story. Two actually.
The first is the one God wrote about how and when we will die, a death-story we cannot know and cannot change. The second is the story we tell ourselves about death, a story we can know and change.
What's your death story? In Chapter 6 of Telling a Better Story, Josh Chatrow identifies some of the stories that secular people tell themselves about death.
Reading: John 3:16
Podcast Notes
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Meribeth Schierbeek explores the question of where does our story start or end.
Reading: 2 Samuel 9:1-13
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Sometimes we should stay where we are. Other times we should leave and go elsewhere. But how do we know which decision is right?
Reading: James 1:1-12
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
What do you find beautiful? For me it's a salmon or a steelhead in my net. For others it may be a song or a baby or Mozart or a painting.
How does beauty affect us? It arrests us and stops us in our tracks. It widens our eyes and opens our mouths. It amazes us, stuns us, and moves us.
But have you ever wondered where that sense of beauty comes from? How is beauty beautiful?
In Chapter 6 of Telling a Better Story, Josh Chatrow answers this question using 'Story Apologetics' or 'Inside-Out Apologetics.'
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:11-14
Podcast Notes
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“I want my life to count.” That longing is deep inside all of us, isn’t it? But how? How do we find meaning and significance?In Chapter 6 of Telling a Better Story, Josh Chatrow answers this question using 'Story Apologetics' or 'Inside-Out Apologetics.'
Reading: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
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A baby squirrel taught Jo about Jesus and his love.
Reading: Mark 10:46-52
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Josh Chatrow trains us to become story-mechanics that explain what’s going on under the hood, and how the Gospel story can repair what’s broken.
Reading: Psalm 66:16
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Every month, I sit in the barber’s chair and, unknown to the hairdresser, there’s an unseen mental battle going on in my mind just millimeters from her scissors as I wrestle with the question "How can I share the Gospel?” Many times I’ve left with less hair but more guilt because I just don’t know where or how to start.
Josh Chatrow has given me new hope in his book Telling A Better Story: How To talk About God In A Skeptical Age and his method of 'Inside-Out' apologetics.
Reading: Acts 17:29-34
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Without trust there can be no relationship.
Reading: Jeremiah 17:7-8
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I’ve read (or tried to read) many books about apologetics. Most of them have left me asking, “But who talks like that?”
So much of Christian apologetics is detached from reality. It’s academics speaking to academics, but it’s utterly useless for everyday conversations. Is there a more useable and useful apologetics?
Reading: Acts 17:22-28
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Apologetics, the defense of the faith, is something only experts do, right? Even the word ‘apologetics’ says “Keep out: Experts only.” Apologetics books do the same.
One of the reasons I like Josh Chatrow’s book, Telling a Better Story, is that by focusing on stories, it makes apologetics accessible to all, and do-able by all. In chapter 5, for example, he sums it up as steeping in and stepping into.
Reading: 1 Peter 3:15
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Five kinds of rest to enjoy.
Reading: Psalm 23
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How do we persuade someone that their story is wrong? The first step is to listen to their story. In Chapter 5 of Telling a Better Story, Josh Chatrow teaches us how to become better listeners.
Reading: James 1:19
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Defensiveness is weakness. Confession is power.
Reading: Prov 28:1-14
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Dissociation is a mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. Does that have any place in the Christian life?
Reading: Psalm 91:1-2
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What’s the best argument for Christianity? Ask a better question, What’s the best story for Christianity? We need to become better story-tellers not better arguers.
Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-13
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How can I witness better to non-Christians? Which Christian hasn’t asked that? We miss opportunities and mess up opportunities to tell people about Jesus. How can we stop missing and messing?
Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:14
All suffering is the result of sin, but not all suffering is the result of sinning.
Reading: Job 42:7-17
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Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
Josh Chatrow believes most Christians are suffering with ‘cultural concussion’, leaving us confused, disoriented, overwhelmed, intimidated, and disconnected from the world around us.
Reading: 1 Peter 4:1-5
Our stories are changed by being not becoming.
Reading: Luke 12:47-48
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary.
How do we interest people in the story of Christ? We don’t have to. They already are interested. It’s just that they don’t realize it! This is a summary of chapter two of Telling a Better Story: How to Talk about God in a Skeptical Ageby Josh Chatrow.
Reading: Colossians 4:1-6
Show Notes
Apologetics, the defense of the Christian faith, was my least favorite subject at Seminary. Its philosophical and scientific approach left me bored and cold.
Thirty years later though, my study of Matthew Henry’s apologetic of happiness persuaded me that apologetics could be beautiful and compelling.
Is there a Christian apologetic that's relevant, beautiful, and compelling?
Josh Chatrow, a street-level apologist in Raleigh, NC, has answered with Telling a Better Story: How to Talk about God in a Skeptical Age. Here’s what I learned from the introduction and the first chapter.
Reading: 1 Peter 3:15
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Do I matter? It's a common and painful question for many of us. Here's an encouraging answer.
Reading: 2 Samuel 9:2
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for woman.
We've all got a story about the worst day in our life. But even that bad story can change our story for good.
Reading: 1 Chronicles 11:20-25
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary
Meribeth's story had a lot of death in it, but it's helped her find life.
Reading: Ephesians 2:1-5
Jo shares a painful story of abuse to show how God is changing her story about her body.
Reading: 1 Cor 3:16-17
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
How do I take a block of text and turn it into individual prayers? Here's what I do.
Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
God is changing my story of prayer through Tim Keller's book on prayer.
Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:4-9.
Jo bought a house this week and learned a valuable spiritual lesson about termites.
Reading: Matthew 12:43-45
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If your story is dominated by 'To do' lists and 'If only' lists, Meribeth has a liberating message for you.
Reading: Hebrews 9:14
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for woman.
As Christians, we often struggle with speaking the truth in love and hearing the truth in love. I recently came across a business book which has helped me with both.
Reading: Ephesians 4:15; Proverbs 27:5-6.
Three tips for studying in the school of life.
Reading: Matthew 6: 25-34
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
God can change the story of our suffering without changing the suffering of our story.
Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
Do you have a story of depression? I recently got an email from a young woman who has a painful story of depression but who wants to change her story with God’s Story. Unfortunately I don’t usually have time to answer these emails but I thought I could answer this one in such a way that I could use it for a podcast too and help many more with similar stories.
I’ve changed names and details to protect privacy, but here’s her questions and my answers which I hope will change her story and maybe yours too.
Reading: Matthew 20:28
Words have tremendous power to build up or to destroy.
Reading: Matthew 12:33-37
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Today, I’m processing disappointment as are also many of you in First Byron CRC. A pastor we called and had high hopes of coming has declined our call. How do we respond to disappointments like this?
Reading: Matthew 6:9-13
Jo shares a story from her childhood in African with lessons for us in America.
Reading: Romans 3:9-20
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“You’re a hater!” It’s one of the worst insults anyone can hurl at us today, isn’t it? To be a hater is to be outside civil society. If you’re a hater, you’re a non-person. Politicians and the media tell us that there’s too much hate in our culture and that hate is causing so many problems.
But the problem is not that we hate too much; it’s that we hate too little. That’s why, in Proverbs 6:16-19, Wisdom University offers a class on how to hate. Specifically, how to hate what God hates. That’s the first part of the class. The second part is how to love what God loves.
A story of how a tattered book inspired me to turn my Bible to tatters.
Reading: Psalm 1
Nearly 48% of Americans aged 55 and older don’t have any retirement nest egg or a traditional pension plan. Many are going to be shocked at how unprepared they were and will spend their later years in financial pain.
Preparation for the end of our lives is even more seriously lacking. The majority are not prepared for their end or their eternal future. How can we better prepare for our end and our eternal future?
I grew up in a very conservative church and I never heard one sermon that ever referenced sex—either positively or negatively. I can't even remember a youth group that addressed it. Here was me growing up in a sex-saturated culture attending a sex-crazed public school and the church was afraid to even mention the subject.
God’s Word shows no such fear or embarrassment as Proverbs 5 demonstrates. Why? Because it’s such a common destroyer of Wisdom. That’s why Solomon answers a question that many struggle with: How can I stay pure in an impure world?
Last Thursday was Thanksgiving Day, one of the best days in the American year. We gather in our churches and our homes to thank God together for his innumerable good gifts to us in the past year.
But what if you feel you have nothing to thank God for? Perhaps 2021 has been a year of loss, a year in which it seems God has done nothing but take away his good gifts from you. You’ve lost a loved one, you’ve lost your health, you’ve lost your family through conflict, you’ve lost your job or career, you’ve lost a friendship, you’ve lost your joy, peace and assurance.
If that’s you, Thanksgiving Day can feel like Torture Day. How can I thank God when I’ve got nothing to thank God for? How can I give God praise when all he’s done is take every good thing away from me?
Reading: Lamentations 3:21-33
Despite the proven benefits of regular health check-ups some of us are very reluctant to get them. Many of us are even more reluctant to get a spiritual health check-up. “Why should I get a spiritual check-up?” you may ask.
A stunning perspective on how God uses color in our stories.
Reading: Psalm 8
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“Social justice” is a term that few of us had heard until recently. Now it's mainstream in our culture, and even in many churches. But what does it mean?
If we look up a dictionary, the words simply mean ‘justice in society,’ which all Christians support. We want equal treatment before the law for all and in all in all walks of life.
If we ask our culture what "social justice" means, we get a much more political definition. It has more to do with environmentalism, redistribution of wealth, reparations, the redefinition of marriage and gender, transgender rights, and so on.
Instead of asking a dictionary or our culture, let’s ask the Bible, “What is social justice?” Proverbs 3:19-35 gives us God’s definition of social justice by portraying the social benefits of Wisdom.
How can I keep up with technology? Keep up with unchanging theology as changing technology fades away.
Where can I find happiness? We often pursue happiness in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways. The result? We never find lasting happiness. We get sadder rather than happier, and even give up the hope of ever finding happiness.
I’m not a financial advisor but I am a spiritual advisor and therefore want to offer a spiritual perspective that I would encourage you to weigh as you think about starting a cryptocurrency chapter.
Reading: Proverbs 20:21; 21:5; 28:22
Today Jo shares her personal audio diary of how God’s Story is changing her story through knowing less of this world’s stories.
Reading: Psalm 46:10
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When I was growing up, physical discipline was still allowed in schools. Believe me, it was terrifying. Much of our days were taken up with trying not to fall foul of many of the angry teachers my school was overloaded with, and who seemed to relish their violent reputations.
For me, discipline was associated with bad-tempered teachers who enjoyed whipping our tiny hands with their thick three-tongued belts. It did not make for happy school days or a good learning environment. That’s one of the reasons why I find it hard to view God’s discipline in a positive way. How can discipline be in any way helpful? Let’s see if Proverbs 3:11-12 helps us answer this.
“How much will you lose if you follow Jesus?” That’s the Devil’s favorite question because he’s used it more successfully than any other to lead billions to hell.
There’s no question that there’s loss involved in following Jesus. The Bible teaches that clearly and repeatedly. However, it also teaches that there are compensating gains. So, as well as counting the cost, we must also count the profit. Yes, there are expenses, but there’s also income.
Proverbs 3:1-10 helps us answer God’s question, “How much will you gain if you follow Wisdom?” The previous chapter tallied up moral gains, whereas this section audits the material gains.
Solomon begins his Wisdom curriculum by encouraging us with multiple motives to pursue Wisdom here and now. The early chapters of Proverbs are especially focused on why Wisdom is worth it, not only for future rewards but because of present rewards. For example, Proverbs 2 provides multiple motivations for Wisdom’s morals.
From time to time I’ll be sharing some longer stories about people who have met the StoryChanger in special ways.
Today’s guest storyteller is Ryan Burgess whom we all know as Homer. He and his lovely family are members at First Byron CRC. Homer is a diesel mechanic in the trucking industry, but has also been sensing God’s call to write another chapter in his story called Finding Freedom Ranch, a non-profit that he’s established to help young women with eating disorders. Their mission is ‘Healing the Heart of Eating Disorder with the Mind of Christ.”
As you’ll hear in this podcast, Homer’s family story was radically changed by one of their daughters suffering anorexia nervosa. But God is using that story of suffering to write other stories of healing. I’ll let Homer tell you the rest.
In today’s audio diary, Meribeth Schierbeek shares about her battles with blame and tells us about how a lame man pointed her to the blame man.
Reading: 2 Samuel 9.
Meribeth Schierbeek is a biblical counselor for women and a member of Trinity PCA in Hudsonville.
How do we find good laughs, God-glorifying laughs? Solomon guides us to good laughs and laughs that last in Proverbs 1:20-33.
Today I share a quote from Tim Keller that's been helping me to pray.
Reading: Matthew 6:9-13
Jo explains why she loves wooden people best
Reading: Romans 3:23
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How can we get into Wisdom University? Start to fear God today and you can start at Wisdom University today.
Today I want to teach you how to brush your teeth better, and hopefully pray better too.
Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:17
I hope you’ve got a strong stomach, because today we’re going to learn from a painful bout of food poisoning.
Reading: Acts 5:31
Jo shows that no monster is a match for God’s majesty.
Reading: Psalm 104:24-26
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Today we’re going to learn how to freshen up our Bible reading with four fresh P's from Luther.
Reading: Luke 11:1-4
How God’s story changes our story about our stuff.
Reading: Revelation 21:5-6
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Putting our suffering into a story changes the story of our suffering.
Reading: Job 23:10
Today Jo shares how God used a dead falcon to make her long for new life.
Reading: Revelation 21:5-6
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I often look back on my story and wish I could change some words, some lines, and even chapters. In fact there are a few chapters I wish I could rip out and shred, but I’ve tried and they won’t budge. How can I change the past?That’s why this quote from C.S Lewis encouraged me in my own storychanging journey: You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
Reading: Revelation 21:3-4
What book should I read next? Read the Book of You next because it will make you read the Book of God too.
Reading: 2 Corinthians 13:5
Hey storychangers, how much of your story do you want to change? Do you want minimal change or maximal change? If you want minimal change, you are definitely listening to the wrong podcast. Because we believe that The StoryChanger changes our whole stories with his whole story so that we become holy in our whole story. If you want that for yourself, keep listening.
Reading: Hebrews 10:16-17
Today Jo shares some lessons from her childhood to administer Jesus’s antidote to phobias.
Reading: Matthew 10:28
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If you'd seen me last week, you’d have run a mile, because my face looked like the scariest Halloween mask you’d ever seen. It was swollen, scarred, and bruised with blood dripping from bloodshot eyes. To reduce the pain, every twenty minutes I'd have to stop and put ice packs on my eyes for twenty minutes. It felt like I’d just gone ten rounds with Tyson Fury. What happened to me?
Reading: Psalm 119:18
Use God’s Story to stabilize your story in the midst of an unstable story.
Reading: Isaiah 40:6-8
Today, Jo’s going East to see if there’s any truth in the story of Karma.
Reading: Romans 12:19-21.
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I rarely go to the movies, but a couple of Saturdays ago I went with Shona and Scot to watch the The Rescue, A National Geographic documentary that chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from a flooded cave system one mile inside a mountain in Northern Thailand.
It was a beautifully filmed and enthralling story. Even though we knew the end result beforehand, we were on the edge of our seats throughout. At some points I realized I had stopped breathing. As we talked afterwards, we couldn’t but ask, “What spiritual lessons can we learn from The Rescue?”Reading: Psalm 40:1-3
A couple of years ago I realized that I was really down. I was depressed
Why? Although there were some recent events that contributed, there were also some long-term causes that I had never fully recognized or addressed. But they were all related in some way to the problem of over-criticizing or judgmentalism.
Reading: Matthew 7:1-2
How much do you really want to change your story. How much of your story do you really want to change. Jo reminds us in this episode that asking God to change us, may result in some painful chapters in order to write better chapters later.
Reading: Isaiah 64:8
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The other day I was leading a chapel at the local Christian school when I asked a bunch of 1-4 graders the names of baddies in various movies they’d watched. I was a bit taken aback by all the names – Venom, Voldemort, Darth Vader, Cruella De Ville, the grinch, the Joker. It went on and on, and because I’d never heard of them I wasn’t able to say if they were goodies or baddies. Lesson #1 “Don’t ask kids questions you don’t know the answers to.”
Any way, it proved my point that every movie has a baddie and a goodie. So I asked them who’s the goodie and the baddie in God’s Story.
Reading: 1 Peter 5:8-9
Today I met with a close friend who’s going through a vocational crisis. He has his own business, it’s in the trades, and it’s been going well since he started it a few years ago. But he’s had a run of disappointments making him question “Should I stick it out or change?
There are probably lots of people in similar positions and therefore I’ll share some of the advice I gave to him in the hope it might help others too. How do I know if I should stick it out or change jobs?
Reading: Genesis 3:17-19
If you’ve ever lost the plot you’ll want to hear today’s podcast on anger from Jo De Blois.
Reading: Malachi 3:16-18
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Today we’re visiting some of the great cathedrals of Europe then returning home to have a look around the cathedral of your mind.Reading: Colossians 3:2
We cannot see because there’s too much to see. We do not know much because we know too much.
Reading: Hosea 10:12
The StoryChanger podcast is motivated by this math: Truth + Transparency = Transformation. Today Jo is bringing truth and transparency together as she tackles the problem of suffering and loss so that we can win even in our greatest losses. And I can tell you this, Jo is speaking about this from deep personal experience.
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.Reading: Romans 5:3-5
My passion for work has always competed with my passion for my wife and family. How can I be productive and yet also get a better work-life (or work/wife) balance? Work and life fought each other to the death (almost literally). I actually ended up in hospital with blood clots because of the stress of trying to balance without sacrificing productivity.
That was when I came across The Energy Project guru Tony Schwarz. He’s famous, not only for being the ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal but also for his work at Harvard Business Review. His mantra is: “Manage your energy, not your time.” His basic idea is that we cannot increase our hours without burnout, but we can increase our energy to avoid burnout.
In this podcast, I summarize the three most important elements of his thought.
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3:1-3
Two very different animals. Two very different ways of living. But they reflect two very different kinds of worker, two very different ways of working.
Reading: Ecclesiastes 9:10
Have you ever felt, “I just can’t go on”? Jo had a recent experience of this. Listen to how she got going again with the Lord’s help.
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
If best-selling author James Patterson were to write your story, what would the title be?
Until recently I'd never spent a minute on this question, but one of Don Miller's online courses challenged me to take some time and give some thought to this.
Initially, I didn't think it worth the time or effort and skipped on to the next video. But I couldn't shake the question: **What's the title of your story?
Reading:** 2 Timothy 4:7-8
Our life stories have a title, a title that God has written. If we can discover it, we'll then be able to make sense of the various chapters. We'll see a thread, a theme, a purpose, and a direction, that will capture attention, arouse interest, summarize the contents, stick in our minds, and simplify what often looks like a confusing mess.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Psychological self-harm?” Neither had I until I heard Jo use it in this podcast. I was a bit shocked by it, but as I thought about it, I realized that although I’ve never even thought about physical self-harm, I’ve definitely practiced psychological self-harm. This helped me not only see old scars, but even fresh wounds, and charted a path of healing. I hope you will find it as helpful as I did.
Reading: Job 39:13-18
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary
If we want to change our story we need to change the stories we're reading, listening to, and watching. If we let bad stories into our lives, our life story will be bad.
In this podcast we develop a better SPAM filter so that we keep the bad out and let the good in.
How will I survive? At some point or other in our lives, most of us experience some degree of financial need. There have been a few times in my own life when I had serious financial worries.
In this podcast, I share three times when I had my own financial struggles, and how God changed my money story with his Story.
Reading: Philippians 4:19
Should a Christian be an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? Or is there some other biblical category we should use and aim for? In today's podcast, Jo shares a story of how God is transforming her by the renewing and rewiring of her mind.
Reading: Romans 15:13
Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Thirty years ago, I spent a year in Hungary just as the iron curtain was falling and communism was collapsing. I met Christians there who knew more about God than any PhD graduate I've ever known.
It puzzled me? They didn't have Christian books or seminary education. They didn't spend a hours a day in their Bibles either. Yet they knew God, they knew theology, they knew salvation in ways I still don't.
How come. Eventually I figured it out. They knew truth through transformation.
I'm going to Alaska in September, to fish for salmon with two friends. It's the trip of a lifetime and I want to make the most of it. But there's so much information out there and such limited time (3 weeks to go).
That's why Alex Lieberman got my attention yesterday when he asked this question yesterday on his podcast, Founder's Journal: "How do I learn in a world of information abundance and limited time?" Who hasn't asked that?
I loved Alex's four-step process for becoming an understander rather than just a memorizer, and I want to apply it in the area of personal transformation.
Reading: Mark 4:24
Centering is the latest fad in the world of self-improvement. Whenever I see something like this, I always ask two questions. First, What need is the world trying to meet with this? Second: What’s the Christian solution? There’s always a genuine human need and there’s always a greater Christian solution.
That’s what Dr Jo does so well in this podcast on centering. Have a listen and you’ll not only write more Christ-centered chapters in your story but you’ll learn how to change others stories from self-centered to Christ-centered.
Jo De Blois has a bachelor's degree in social sciences, a Master's Degree in religion, and a PhD in theology. She has lived in the U.S. for the past 6 years and is currently working as a researcher at Puritan Seminary.
"Some Christians are practical, whereas others are more theological." You've heard that, haven't you? Maybe even said it. It's often used to excuse some Christians from their lack of theology, and to excuse others from their lack of practical Christianity.
This distinction, though, is alien to biblical Christianity, which not only commends and commands both theology and practice, but makes each one serve the other.
More truth means more transformation, and more transformation means more truth. Let's take a closer look at the first of these.
Reading: John 8:31-32.
Clothe your heart before you clothe your body and you'll change your life by changing your clothes.
Reading: Colossians 3:9-14.
Reading: Proverbs 6:6-11
Guest storyteller, Jo De Blois, invites us to learn a big lesson from a little ant.
Jo De Blois has a bachelor's degree in social sciences, a Master's Degree in religion, and a PhD in theology. She has lived in the U.S. for the past 6 years and is currently Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
I’ve got a confession to make: I read self-help books. Double confession: I enjoy reading self-help books. Triple confession: I’ve read hundreds of them. Recently I’ve been enjoying:
- Atomic Habits (James Clear)
- Gifts of Imperfection (Brenee Brown)
- Soundtracks (Jon Acuff)
- Effortless (Greg McKeown)
These best-selling books have sold tens of millions of copies, the authors becoming online celebrities with millions of followers.
Evidently, deep in the human heart, there’s a volcanic passion for personal transformation. People want to change, grow, improve, transform and are prepared to read lots, study long, work hard, and pay lots for it.
I often feel convicted when I see how passionate non-Christians are about personal change. They put me and most Christians to shame with their fire. Where the world has lava, we have smoldering ashes.
This is a serious problem because without passion for personal transformation, we won’t sacrifice for it, we won’t suffer for it, we won’t have success in it.
So how do we re-ignite our passion for personal transformation?
Reading: Luke 16:10
Guest storyteller, Dr Jo De Blois, shows us how to use little incidents for big change.
Jo De Blois has a bachelor's degree in social sciences, a Master's Degree in religion, and a PhD in theology. She has lived in the U.S. for the past 6 years and is currently Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.
Reading for the day: Romans 7:21-25
All change is a challenge. Ask any President, CEO, or NGO.
Personal change is a bigger challenge. Ask any self-help guru.
Christian change is the greatest challenge of all. Ask any Pastor or Christian.
Here are the three biggest challenges I've had to face up to in my 30-year story of Christian transformation.David Murray is a PCA minister serving as Senior Pastor at First Byron CRC. He has also authored a number of books.
"She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).
When Jesus saved me in my early twenties, I not only wanted saved from hell, but saved from my sins. I wanted my sins forgiven, but also my sins stopped. I wanted my eternal life to be better, but also my earthly life to be better. I was disgusted with my past and desperate to be different.
As I encountered Jesus in the Bible and through sermons, I knew he, and only he, could change me. Inside and out. Now and forever. And he did. His Story changed my story.
He can change yours too. Listen for how.
David Murray is a PCA minister serving as Senior Pastor at First Byron CRC. He has also authored a number of books.