Not Christmas. Everybody gets born. Not Good Friday. Everybody dies. It’s Easter! Easter was the first and only resurrection (so far). If you don’t know this story, you don’t know hope. If you don’t know this story, all you have to look forward to is the inside of a coffin. But there’s more than that! …
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Whole Earth Stories: First Love
When I was 15 I was red-hot on fire with spiritual intensity. I still am…but it’s a deep sustainable fire, like those fireplace embers that carry through, even on a cold winter’s night. Here’s a story about a place that was red-hot, and struggled to exist in the middle of a cold environment. Or on …
Whole Earth Stories: Peter’s Mess
They just tumble out of the Bible; stories of men and women falling short of their potential. And then you get a guy like Peter who blows past his potential, yet keeps his personality through it all. This is the innocent beginning of his story. We were able to shoot this video in St. Peter’s …
Whole Earth Stories – Really, Really Good!
Really, Really Good from David Roller on Vimeo. OR, on YouTube 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 …
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12 Hours ’till I’m Gone
I have 12 hours to finish everything. Today’s my last day in the office before sabbatical. Tomorrow and the next day we’ll be at an Annual Conference and then the day after that…I’m gone. As we say in Spanish, I’ll be “historia!” Actually, we don’t say that in Spanish. 11 hours 58 minutes. As Samuel …