New Story Church

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New Story Church is a religion podcast hosted by Paul D. Anderson, with 708 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Paul D. Anderson hosts New Story Church, a religion show with 708 episodes published.

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  The Two-Word Prayer That Just Might Save You | Luke 17

  Aug 30, 202641 min

  The first time I got a $20 tip, I felt amazing. A year later, anything less felt like an insult. How did I become so ungrateful? Luke 17 tells us. Ten men with leprosy cry out to Jesus. And all ten are healed. But only one comes back to say thank you. And Jesus wants to know: What happened to the other nine? As we follow Jesus’s question and pull on this thread through the Scriptures, we discover that gratitude is not just a life hack. Not just the polite thing to do. It's what happens when you finally see reality clearly: you didn't make yourself, you're not keeping yourself alive right now, and every good thing you have is a gift you did nothing to earn. To say “thank you” is to agree with the way things actually are. And Jesus suggests that just might have something to do with being saved.

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  How to Pray for Someone You Can't Stand

  Aug 23, 202644 min

  The first time I prayed for my enemy, I said the words, but I felt hollow. In Matthew 5, Jesus dropped the line early Christians quoted more than any other — love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you. It's the sentence that made them recognizable in a world that had never seen anything like it. It's also the one we skip. So, we go back to what Jesus was actually quoting and what he means by a word we translate 'perfect' — which turns out to be different than what we originally thought. Then, we stop talking and try it. 5 minutes. 4 names. 4 words. You may find out your love has edges. That's not failure. That's a road that's torn up, and it's the one He's putting back together.

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  When a Million Things Pull You Apart, Pray Like This

  Aug 16, 202645 min

  You can do everything right and still come apart. That's Martha in Luke 10 — busy, resentful, and missing that God is standing in her living room. Most of us aren't falling apart because we're doing something wrong. We're falling apart because we're doing too many things right — and somewhere in all of it we've lost track of why we started. Luke has a word for that. So does a sixth-century pope who ran a collapsing city and still found time to pray. So, it turns out, does the research. This message is about what it takes to stay whole when everything in your life is pulling in a different direction — and why a five minute prayer practice might just be the difference. Then we're going to try it. Five minutes a day for thirty days, starting together at the end of the message.

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  The Answer (I'm Told) Is Prayer

  Aug 9, 202645 min

  Which, if you've ever tried to pray, kind of sounds ridiculous. But it's true. You should pray. In this series, we'll look at four prayer practices that will change your life and our world. But before we can go there, we have to make sure we're talking about the same thing. What kind of prayer actually changes us and our world? Three words: Hear. Awe. Behold. We'll sit with the prayer Jesus prayed every morning and every evening, ask what could possibly make a distracted/divided person fully present, and look at how the earliest Christians drew themselves when they prayed.

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  The Party You Were Too Busy For

  Aug 2, 202645 min

  Someone throws the party of a lifetime. Everyone is invited, then only a few show up — and their excuses are completely reasonable. In Luke 14, Jesus is at a dinner table where everyone's working the room, angling for a better seat. So he tells them about a banquet where the guest list gets thrown out, and the host sends his servant to the streets — then out past the city — until the house is full. The people in the story say, 'Please excuse me, I can't come. They're just busy. A field. A purchase. A wedding. Good things, all of them. This week: what it costs to be reasonably, responsibly occupied — and what it means that the host keeps going further out to find the one who'd never believe there was a seat for them. If you've been working the room your whole life — this one's for you. If you've been sure you were never on the list — this one's especially for you.

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