{"id":979,"date":"2021-04-19T14:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=979"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:17:37","slug":"the-transforming-nature-of-bible-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"The Transforming Nature of Bible Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 4\/18\/21 by Pastor Steve Shields.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There is power in a story.  <\/strong>Jesus tells us in Mark 4:9-13 the power of parables.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bible-Stories.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bible-Stories.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bible-Stories-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bible-Stories-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this podcast, Pastor Steve begins the series on The Transforming Nature of Bible Stories.   He will show us the importance of seeing a story&#8217;s meaning.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A story is a bridge between ideas and words.  If you want to understand the God of the Bible, you would do well to understand the stories. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bible stories require a heart that listens. <\/strong> Bible stories require <strong>a heart that is hungry.<\/strong>  Bible stories <strong>require time to digest. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get the most from Bible stories you need to <strong>study them, live them and share them!  <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8484\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-979-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=979-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20210418TheTransformingNatureofBibleStories.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 4\/18\/21 by Pastor Steve Shields. There is power in a story. Jesus tells us in Mark 4:9-13 the power of parables. In this podcast, Pastor Steve begins the series on The Transforming Nature of Bible Stories. He will show us the importance of seeing a story&#8217;s meaning. A story is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Transforming Nature of Bible Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219,220],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-stories","tag-transforming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-fN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}