Old Turkey, modern story. Bishop David Roller tells the story of the people of Ephesus reacting to the power and transformed lives of the People of the Way.
Bishop David Roller starts a series of stories called The Whole Earth Stories with the story of creation called Really, Really Good.
The first time I told a story in church, instead of preaching, something weird happened…people listened! Usually when I preach someone’s coughing, someone’s looking at a text (phone, not scripture!), someone else is staring out the window. But during the Bible story it went strangely quiet…everybody listened. I started to suspect that our brains are made for stories; that stories are how we learn truth, set our values, even make decisions.
As I started telling the simple stories of the Bible, enough people asked if I had recorded the stories that I had a great idea! Record them. And, to give them an extra “twist;” why not tell the Bible stories in some cool places?
So, armed with a simple camcorder and a mic, we’ve travelled to some interesting places and I’ve told the stories there. Yvonne is the videographer. We’ve recorded about 27 of them so far and will be posting them here over the next months.
This story is recorded at the Giraffe Center just outside Nairobi, Kenya.
It’s also available on YouTube if that works better for you:
On the 19th September 1931 three gentlemen (J. R. R. Tokien, C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson) went for a walk alongside a river and got into a debate about myths and legends.
Two of these men would become world famous tellers of stories, but only one of them was convinced by the story of Jesus. Following many debates with Tolkien and Dyson and the walk along the river C. S. Lewis would become a Christian.
This week’s video is a dramatic re-enactment of that walk, it’s not a word-for-word account (because it doesn’t feature Dyson), but rather a portrayal of the essence of what’s known about that conversation:
The other week we highlighted that Bishop David Roller had started a series of stories called the Whole Earth Stories.