God and Hamilton - The Transformational Power of Story

2. “Sometimes when you’re
so caught up in your world,
you don’t really see other things.
So it’s great to see other people
in their worlds, take things…
from ‘Hamilton’ and bring it
back to your world.”
- JOSH HART -

7. “We are
hard wired for story…
story is literally
in our DNA.”
- BRENE BROWN -

10. “With many stories like these,
he presented his message to them,
fitting the stories to their experience and maturity.
He was never without a story when he spoke.”
- MARK 4:33-34 (MSG) -

11. The disciples came up and asked,
“Why do you tell stories?” He replied,
“You’ve been given insight into God’s kingdom.
You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift,
this insight; it hasn’t been given to them.
Whenever someone has a ready heard for this,
the insights and understandings flow freely…”

12. “But if there is no readiness,
any trace of receptivity soon disappears.
That’s why I tell stories: to create readiness,
to nudge the people toward receptive insight.”
- MATTHEW 13:10-15 (MSG) -

13. THE
TRANSFORMATIONAL
POWER of
STORY

15. A
STORY of
GRACE

18. “But while he was still a long way off,
his father saw him and was filled with compassion
for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms
around him and kissed him.”
- LUKE 15:20 (NIV) -

20. “Grace means there is
nothing we can do
to make God love us more
and there is nothing we can do
to make God love us less.”
- PHILLIP YANCEY -

21. A
STORY of
DESPAIR

25. A
STORY of
DESPAIR

26. “My tears have been my food
day and night…Why my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.”
- PSALM 42 (NIV) -

27. “We all talk to ourselves.
What we say determines
the direction and quality of our lives.
Our self-talk can make the difference
between happiness and despair…”
- PAMELA E. BUTLER -

31. Mark 12
Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.