Join Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski as they conclude their study of James, exploring patient endurance, powerful prayer, and wise confession.

Scripture Focus: James 5 - James confronts injustice, encourages patient endurance, and highlights the transformative power of prayer and confession.

In This Episode:

• Stewardship versus status: What we hoard reveals what we worship
• Learning to wait on God's timeline with patient endurance
• The connection between confession, transparency, and effective prayer
• Wisdom in confession: When to share and with whom

Key Quote: "It's okay for God to bless us with things, as long as those things don't have us."

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Join Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski as they explore James chapter 4, examining how pride fuels conflict and why humility is the antidote to worldliness.

Scripture Focus: James 4 - James reveals how selfish desires create conflict and presents humble submission as the remedy for pride and living divided between God and the world.

In This Episode:

• How pride hijacks prayer and fuels conflicts over territory, not truth
• Why humility is an invitation to intimacy with God
• Living with perspective: remembering life's brevity changes everything

Key Quote: "Pride is a repellent. The thing that we pursue to be first and most important is what actually pushes people away from us, including God. Whereas humility is an open invitation to come into relationship."

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Join Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski from Open Door Church as they explore authentic faith and the transformative power of our words through James 2:18-3:18.

Scripture Focus: James 2:18-3:18 - James contrasts intellectual belief with lived-out faith, then addresses the tongue as the most difficult thing to tame, comparing it to a spark that can set an entire forest ablaze.

In This Episode:

• How actions authenticate our beliefs and demonstrate genuine faith
• Taming the tongue: why it's our hardest discipline
• The danger of our internal dialogue and self-talk
• Godly wisdom versus worldly cleverness
• Practical faith transformation in everyday moments

Key Quote: "Nobody speaks more to you than you. The words you play on repeat in your head matter. You can either build yourself up and speak the truth that God speaks about you, or you can believe the lies that Satan whispers."

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Welcome to One Single Story with Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski. Today we explore James 1:19-2:17, examining what it means to live out genuine faith through intentional listening and showing mercy to all people.

In This Episode:

• The discipline of listening: seeking to understand rather than to be understood
• Why quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger requires cultivated restraint
• Understanding favoritism as an insult to God's grace and mercy
• How genuine faith assigns worth and value to every person regardless of status

Key Quote: "Anyone with working ears can hear. But to listen takes intention. A lot of times we are guilty of seeking in a conversation to be understood instead of seeking to understand."

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Welcome to One Single Story! Pastor Stephen Mizell is joined by Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Wendy Korbusieski to explore James chapter 1, discussing how trials produce spiritual maturity and why wisdom is essential during difficult seasons.

Scripture Focus: James 1:1-18 - James writes to scattered Jewish believers under persecution, offering practical guidance on how real faith perseveres through trial and temptation without losing joy or integrity.

In This Episode:

• Understanding what it means to be "perfect and complete" through testing
• Why James emphasizes wisdom during trials
• Being quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger
• How joy can coexist with suffering through faith and perspective

Key Quote: "Faith that isn't tested can't be trusted. It's got to be tested along the way. And if we don't allow God to test it, then we won't be able to trust the next time we need it."

About One Single Story: Each weekday, we offer a brief lesson from the daily reading in a one-year Bible plan, providing thoughtful discussion and practical application to help you grow deeper in God's Word.

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Join Pastor Stephen Mizell with Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety as they explore Hebrews 11-12, examining how the great cloud of witnesses inspires perseverance, why God's discipline is an act of love, and how to keep our focus on Jesus through both triumph and trial.

Scripture Focus: Hebrews 11:32-12:13 - The Hall of Faith's conclusion and the call to endurance with eyes fixed on Jesus.

In This Episode:

• How the cloud of witnesses who endured suffering encourages us to persevere
• Understanding God's discipline as love and a tool for spiritual maturity
• Practical ways to fix our eyes on Jesus when circumstances feel overwhelming

Key Quote: "When you've done something, it shouts that it can be done... That cloud of witnesses shows us that if they could survive and remain faithful, we can persevere too."

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Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark, and Sheryl Daughety explore the second half of Hebrews 11, examining what distinguishes true faith from presumption through Moses' costly choice to identify with God's people.

Scripture Focus: Hebrews 11:23-40 - Moses' refusal to be known as Pharaoh's daughter's son and the price of faithful obedience.

In This Episode:

• Faith acts in obedience regardless of outcome; presumption assumes a particular result
• Moses' internal conflict returning to confront the family that raised him
• The emotional burden of costly obedience over 40 years in the wilderness
• Why faith always costs something, but unbelief costs even more

Key Quote: "Faith says, I'm going to do what I need to do, whether God blesses me or not."

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Join Pastor Stephen Mizell, Pastor Jay Rivenbark and Pastor Sheryl Daughety as they explore the Hall of Faith in Hebrews 11, examining what biblical faith truly means and how it transforms our lives.

Scripture Focus: Hebrews 11:1-16 - The opening of the Hall of Faith, featuring heroes like Enoch, Abraham, and Rahab who trusted God for what they couldn't see.

In This Episode:

• Biblical faith versus optimism - conviction rooted in God's character, not circumstances
• Faith as action, not passive belief
• When faith requires waiting and when it requires walking
• Cultivating a pilgrim mindset in a permanent-seeking world

Key Quote: "Often I think faith is we do all we can, and then God makes up the difference."

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