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Day 017: How Does the Master Story Relate to the Good News?
In our last reading for the week, we consider how the Master Story creates the context that is needed to understand why the message about Jesus is Good News – the Gospel. Over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be shifting our focus to the Gospel. Before we get there is it…
Read MoreDay 016: What Do We Need to Know About the Master Story? PT 2
Today, we continue to discuss Paul’ speech in Athens and how it illuminates the answers to some of our fundamental life questions: Who is God? What is the purpose of life? Where are we heading? How will things end?
Read MoreDay 015: What Do We Need to Know About the Master Story? PT 1
Life comes to us as a Story; it has a beginning, middle, and an end. We need a larger story, a Master Story, in order to answer the foundational questions about life. 2 Timothy 3:14–15…continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, and you know that from childhood…
Read MoreDay 014: How Did Paul Use The Master Story?
We all have questions about life that we need to have answered: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here? How will our lives turn out? This week, we are going to consider the basic answers that the Bible gives to these foundational questions and how Jesus plays a central role…
Read MoreDay 013: How Does Jesus Relate to the Master Story?
John 5:39–40 [Jesus said,] “You study the Scriptures throughly because you think you have eternal life in them. Yet they testify about Me! And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.”
Read MoreDay 012: What is the Master Story of the Bible? PT 02
Today, we finish our “birds-eye-view” of the Master Story revealed in the Bible. At the end of this present age of human history, Jesus will return to set things right.
Read MoreDay 011: What is the Master Story of the Bible? PT 01
Today, we begin to trace the Master Story revealed in the Bible. Looking at things from a high view, we will see how the Bible answers some of our fundamental life questions: Where have we come from? Where are things headed? Why are we here?
Read MoreDay 010: Why Do We Need a Master Story?
Meaning is one of the greatest needs in human life, one of our deepest hungers —perhaps it is, in the final analysis, the most basic need in the realm of the human experience.” ~ Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart ~
Read MoreDay 009: Review & Overview
This week, we begin with a review and overview. We review what we shared last week and we give a brief preview of our readings for this week.
Read MoreDay 008: What is a Reliable Pattern of Life Transformation?
…the greatest need you and I have—the greatest need of collective humanity—is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place within us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. [Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 14]
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