The Gathering

Story Sunday Storyline Church Stories are told to pass along information, share experiences, and help us internally process the world around us. Stories help us make sense of what we see, hear, and experience. Jesus told stories to help people understand who God is and how He works in our lives. And we created this thing called Storyline! This past Sunday, was our annual Story Sunday at the Gather...

Love More, Pt. 5: What Is It? Mike Gathright We use the word love constantly. We love our families, our friends, our pets, our favorite teams— but what do we actually mean by it? This past Sunday, at the Gathering, we continued our Love More series by wondering together about what love is like: its power, its central place in our lives, and how it can be practiced, shaped and aimed.

Love More, Pt. 4: Artificial Love Mike Gathright Artifical intelligence could write a sympathy note, compose a prayer, remember a birthday and even sound remarkably compassionate. But could a machine actually love, and what happened to us when we let it try? This past Sunday at Storyline's Gathering, we continued our series, Love More, by exploring why God chose imperfect people to carry his perfe...

Love More, Pt. 3: Loving Your Enemies Mike Bredeweg This past Sunday, we took a look in our series, Loving More, at how we could love a special group of people... the people we didn't like. What did we do with people who had hurt or offended us? As we looked at our broken relationships, we considered how we got to this place and where we would go from here.

Concert Sunday Storyline Church If you’d been part of Storyline for a while, you already knew what a gift it was to have so many talented musicians in our community. And if you’d been around long enough, you’d probably noticed that the music at Storyline didn’t always sound quite like what you might have expected to hear at church — which was one of the things we loved about it! At this past week’...

Love More, Pt. 2: The Cost of Loving More Mike Gathright Loving more sounds wonderful - until love leads us to complicated and costly situations. This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we looked at the powerful story of Jesus at his good friend's funeral and how He loves everyone as they are... and maybe how we can too.

Love More, Pt. 1: The One Good Fear Mike Gathright What if the key to fearing less isn’t trying harder to be courageous—but learning to love more? This past Sunday, at Storyline Church, we wrapped up our Fear-Less series and launched Love More by exploring the Bible’s surprising idea of “the fear of God.” We discovered why God’s grace doesn’t give us more to fear—it frees us from having anything t...

Fear-Less, Pt. 12: The One Fear We All Share Mike Gathright This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we considered the one fear we all share as we concluded our series, Fear-Less.

Fear-Less, Pt. 11: Fear That This Is All There Is Jill McNabnay What if the fear isn’t that our lives will go badly, but that they’ll simply pass us by? As we continue our Fear-Less series, this past Sunday’s Gathering explored the fear that this is all there is — the fear that we’ll spend our lives staying busy, chasing success, and looking for something more, only to wonder if we ever really liv...

Fear-Less, Pt. 10: Fear of Being Alone Jill McNabnay Have you ever felt alone... even in a room full of people? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we continued our Fear-less series by exploring why loneliness has become one of the defining struggles of our time, and what the Bible reveals about how God moves toward us, not away.

Fear-Less, Pt. 9: Failure Mike Gathright One of the greatest fears we carry isn't simply the fear of making a mistake — it's the fear that our failures define us. This past Sunday, as we continued our Fear-Less series, we looked at one of the most famous stories in the Bible and how Jesus not only restores a man broken by his failure, but uses it to renew him for good.

Fear-Less, Pt. 8: The Birds Have Been Singing All Along Mike Gathright What happens when life changes in ways we didn’t expect — or hands us a season we never would have chosen? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we gathered at Lincoln Township Park and explored Jesus’ promise that while the seasons of life change, the presence and grace of God never do.

Fear-Less, Pt. 7: The Worst Case Mike Gathright Have you ever noticed how often the things that keep you awake at night never actually happen? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we explored why Jesus commands us, “Do not worry about tomorrow,” and how God’s grace can help us fear less, trust more, and find freedom from the monsters hiding in the dark.

Fear-Less, Pt. 6: Fear of Not Enough Jill McNabnay What if the fear that drives so much of our striving, proving, and performing is the fear that we’re simply not enough? This past Sunday, at Storyline’s Gathering, we explored where that fear comes from, why it’s so deeply rooted in us, and how Jesus offers a different foundation for our identity—one that doesn’t have to be earned, defended, or co...

Fear-Less, Pt. 5: Freedom from the iGod Mike Gathright This past Fourth of July weekend, we celebrated freedom. But what if the greatest freedom isn't political at all? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we continued our Fear-Less series by considering Jesus' offer of the kind of freedom our culture rarely talks about.

Fear-Less, Pt. 4: Father Knows Best Mike Gathright Many of us carry a fear we rarely talk about: the fear that God is disappointed in us. We wonder if we've done enough, measured up, or somehow fallen short of what God expected. This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we explored what Jesus' baptism reveals about God's heart and why we don't have to live in fear of His disapproval.

Fear-Less, Pt. 3: Fear of Losing Control Jill McNabnay What do we do when life reaches a point where there's nothing left we can control? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we explored the fear of losing control and why our deepest fears are often tied to the things we care about most.

Fear-Less, Pt. 2: The Anatomy of Courage Mike Gathright We all carry fears—about our families, our future, our health, our finances, and whether we're enough. This past Sunday, we concluded our two-part opening for our summer series, Fear-Less, by exploring the four steps King David takes in Psalm 3 to move him from anxiety to courage, and from panic to peace.

The Struggle to Commence Mike Gathright This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we celebrated our graduates! We laughed. Some moms might have cried a little. We probably embarrassed a few people with baby pictures. And we wrestled with one of the most important truths about life... there is no avoiding the struggle. And what does a life of faith in God's grace have for us in that reality.

Fear is everywhere right now — fear about the future, our families, our finances, and the state of the world. This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we began a new series called "Fear-Less", by exploring how faith in the Grace of God can help us to move forward in the face of fear.

This past Sunday was Mother's Day. Why is it held in such sacred regard? Could it be that a mother's love has something to show us about the love of God? That was the question we wondered about together, at Storyline's Gathering, this past Sunday.

What if work was never meant to be something we simply survive, but something that helps us discover meaning, purpose, a calling? This past Sunday, at Storyline’s Gathering, we explored how God intended for work to be part of a good, growing life, and what it looks like to rediscover vocation in the middle of ordinary everyday work.

What if God has given you something the world desperately needs? This past Sunday, at Storyline's Gathering, we explored how our passions, wounds, gifts, and talents come together in God’s good story.

Leading up to Easter, and in the weeks since, we’ve been asking questions about perfection. And we've discovered that maybe God isn’t offering us an escape into a perfect paradise as much as an invitation into a good story—one that’s still unfolding, still growing, and not dependent on us getting everything right. This past Sunday, at Storyline’s Gathering, we explored what that looks like in real...

So, if Easter is the invitation into God's good story, not a perfect paradise, but a growing garden where we are in the process of becoming... what does it look like to get in on that? This was the question we wondered about together this past Sunday morning at Storyline's Gathering.