Category Archives: Stories
These are stories I have written about Bible characters or events; usually told instead of a sermon in an attempt to connect with hearts rather than just heads.
They are opportunities to meet Bible characters as real, live, just-like-you-and-me people. They are an attempt to put flesh onto the bare bones of the Bible story but, while they are intended to be true to the scriptures they may not take all the details into account.
USAGE
You are welcome to use these stories in any way you can, including adapting them for your own context. But please acknowledge where they came from and who wrote them (they do belong to me and being visible in the public domain doesn’t change that).
And please let me know what you did and how it went.
Tears, Grace and an Alabaster Jar
Everyone knew Mary. Not to talk to of course; no one did that except the children who taunted her, and her customers I suppose, but they only came out at night Continue reading →
Tagged as Alabaster Jar, Christianity, grace, Healing, Jairus, Jesus, Luke 7:36-50, Mary, Simon the Pharisee
Plenty of Camels, Three Kings and a Baby
I love camels. Yeah, I know, I’m crazy. No one loves camels, or no one tells anyone they love camels. Most people put up with camels as a necessary evil, and camels certainly don’t love us; they hardly even put up with us Continue reading →
Preaching and Storytelling
I have often tried to put my passion for preaching into words something Richard Jensen has no problem doing in his book, Thinking in Story: Preaching in a Post-literate Age Continue reading →
Filed under Books & Movies, Stories, Worship & Preaching
Tagged as Law, Preacher, preaching, Richard Jensen, Sermon, Story, Storytelling
Blind Faith: Bartimaeus’s Story
Bartimaeus discovered that if prayer and healing don’t come out of a relationship with God they just might lead to one. Continue reading →
Filed under Bible, Sermons, Stories
Tagged as Bartimaeus, Blindness, Healing, Jericho, Pool of Bethesda, prayer
Does God run? The Older Brother & the Prodigal’s Father
Had I been around that day; that unbelievable day when Father’s softness hit an all-time low…, had I been around that day, there would have been hell to pay. As it was I told Father exactly what I thought. Continue reading →
Filed under Bible, Sermons, Stories
Tagged as Father, forgive, God, Jesus, Luke 15, older brother, Prodigal son
A pregnancy, a donkey, and a whole bunch of questions
A dream pregnancy, you could say. Well that’s what she seemed to tell the neighbours. Now she’s trying to get comfortable on a donkey…and all she wants is a bed. Continue reading →
Filed under Stories
Tagged as Advent, Bible story, birth of Jesus, census, Christmas, donkey, Mary & Joseph, Pregnant, questions, Son of David
