story4all

Today's show:

• Why do we start the story half way through?
• Is it any wonder why people don't 'get' Jesus?
• The power of chronologically telling God's Story

Bryan tells some fun stories about how individuals and people groups have been impacted from the simple fact of hearing God's Story from the start! Should we be thinking about our outreach strategies and consider "telling it from the beginning"?

Links ... ION web site ... The God's Story Project ... New Tribes Missions ... STS

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Today's show:

• Happy 4th July!
• Children storytelling as young as five
• Tears and other evidence of God touching people deeply

Bryan, fresh back from his training trip in Scotland, brings stories and reports from the workshop that just happened last week. From 5-year-olds leading story presentations to tears flowing as God ministered on multiple levels to attendees from several nations, it was a rich time.

Links ... STS web site ... Info about the next ION conference in September (11th-13th) ... What is Haggis anyway?!?

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Today's show:

• Lauren DeVries is back with some cool stories
• And this time with her sister too
• When the Holy Spirit sets up a story time

Just over a year ago, Lauren DeVries was on story4all sharing about the impact story had been having on her family. This week she, and her sister Aubrey, join Bryan on the show to discuss moments when God orchestrated events and situations for 'story moments' and Kingdom purposes.

Links ... STS web site

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Today's show:

• He has cried every day
• How one man and children are impacted by story
• Stories from Ireland and other lands in Europe

On a training trip in the Republic of Ireland, Bryan shares some stories of lives being impacted this month by the Word of God as it comes through story and discussion times. From adults to children the Word of God pierces and transforms, often suddenly and unexpectedly.

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Today's show:

• A short story changing lives
• Bible stories that transform
• Stories from the nations about storytelling

Bryan shares some stories about the telling of one Bible story in Luke 10 and how that story has transformed lives in unexpected ways and in unexpected places.

Links ... Simply the Story

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Today's show:

• How stories get people excited!
• Christians get excited about the Word of God when it comes through story
• And how those uniterested in the Gospel 'cannot get enough'!

Listening to stories from all around the world that have the same message: the Word of God makes people light up with love for the Lord, His Word and the lost, especially when it comes through the medium of a story. This week's podcast with Bryan.

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Today's show:

• Telling the amazing acts of God
• Some impossible situations that God transformed through Bible stories
• Stories from the nations of lives saved, healed and delivered by the power of God

The Bible commands us to declare the mighty acts and works of God, and this week Bryan tells some stories about changed lives and transformed situations that would be impossible to change without the intervention of God, and how storytelling played a role in those same events.

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Today's show:

• A powerful training focused on oral learners
• Ibrahim & the Dreamer
• Storytelling changes lives

We revisit Scriptures in Use this week and take a look at their updated web site, with the new film (from Ghana) especially designed for West Africans and with focus on forgiveness from the life of Joseph. Bryan also gives an overview on the SIU training and the course that is available online also.

Links ... SIU web site ... SIU Training

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Today's show:

• Are you stuck? Do you like the concept, but ... how do I do this?
• Storytelling in every day situations
• Where and how to use this ministry tool

Do you like the idea of storytelling ministry and want to get into doing it naturally, and yet lack ideas on where you might use it? Well, on this week's show, Bryan shares some situations where he and others have used story and tells some stories about those storytelling moments or occasions. We hope you will be inspired and helped by this week's newsletter episode.

If you have a story to tell about storytelling or want to share some comments with Bryan and our listeners, please go ahead and leave a message in the Comments section of the podcast.

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Today's show:

• Training stories from Sweden
• Where there is hunger and humility
• When more than skill learning takes place

Bryan reports on location from his time this past week in Sweden, leading a Simply the Story workshop in YWAM Restenäs for a group of keen attendees from 8 different nations. 

Links ... YWAM ... YWAM Restenäs ... STS

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Today's show:

• When you hate to confront
• When you face opposition 
• When God saves the day

Bryan breaks away from training on location in Sweden this week to share some stories from some story trainer colleagues, and, also his own, about how standing strong in the face of opposition and adversity is uncomfortable, but is met with victory and breakthrough as we hold on for God's touch and hand.

Some fun stories of a heckler in a story presentation to one experienced Sunday school teacher who comes round after initially vehemently opposing Bible storytelling, and how that happened.

Links ... STS

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Today's show:

• Called to the unreached and how story has a part
• Cool stories about using Bible story ministry in the home
• Impact with storytelling on mission in India

Bryan, mobile, chats with James Farmer, Missions Awareness Programme Co-ordinator for Logos Ministries International, about how he has been personally impacted by story, how he has been using Bible storytelling in his own family and then very recently on a trip to India.

Links ... STS ... Logos Ministries International web site

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Today's show:

• The simplicity of story to impact deeply
• The cookies are on the bottom shelf
• How God still uses stories from since the dawn of time

Bryan reflects on the simplicity of the Message to reach us and how God uses simple stories that have been around since the beginning to reach us for Himself and to bring us into relationship with Him. Whilst honouring the technological advances of our modern age Bryan is quick point out how the simple storyteller and an audience can be all that's necessary for a mighty work of grace.

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Today's show:

• The sudden surprises of God at work through story
• Stories of the Lord at work "suddenly"
• How we need to be ready for a "suddenly" opportunity

Bryan looks at how God chooses to use the storytelling of His Word with discussion to suddenly pierce and work in the lives of those around us, and how we must be ready to step out when that moment comes to us "suddenly" to tell His Story.

Links ... STS

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Today's show:

• Kulumi gets reworked from the ground up
• A tremendous sound and bright light for the Kingdom
• Wonderful new solar-powered device just released

Bryan catches up with Wilhelm Stoker, founder of Hope Tech Global and inventor of the Kulumi device, and learns about the hot new product that they have just released, which is all that the Kulumi device is known for - "It's a light; it's an audio player; it's a phone charger" - and how it has been re-invented to fit in the palm of your hand as a highly portable, solar-powered device.

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Links ... See the new Kulumi Mini here

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Today's show:

• Looking for a guru she finds Jesus was looking for her
• How story broke the traditional pattern
• Stories from storytelling in the nations and at home

Bryan talks with Gayle, who, in her seventies, is travelling the world as an ambassador for Jesus, telling His Story and teaching others to do the same.

Links ... STS site

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Today's show:

• Mobile in Siberia
• Training indigenous peoples to train others 
• God at work through yielded hearts

Bryan, on location in Salekhard on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia, gives a short update on what God is doing with several people groups in the remote and frozen tundra as believers learn how to tell engaging, accurate Bible stories and then train others.

Links ... Simply the Story

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Today's show:

• Personal tragedy and a story of grace
• To Russia with Love
• How story is impacting Nenets and other peoples

Bryan, currently on location in Siberia, meets and interviews David Markey (whose mother we met in September 2015 on story4all in a fascinating story). A young man, called to share the love and mercy of Jesus in frozen wastelands, tells his wonderful story and how God is now at work among indigenous people in Siberia.

Links ... STS 

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Today's show:

• A book for the non-reader!
• Collaborate!
• And a story from a plane

Bryan continues to share some stories and news of what God is doing through several agencies and organisations around the world, as well as sharing links to new online resources.

Links ... ION web site ... Orality Bible Project web site ... Finishing the Task web site ... ION Collaborate page ... Living Water International site

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Today's show:

• A date for your diary/calendar!
• Deaf Bible Society aim to change the statistics!
• KIDStory doing their stuff in the Philippines

Bryan shares some stories and news of what God is doing through several agencies and organisations around the world - among adults, children and the deaf.

Links ... ION web site ... DOOR International web site ... Deaf Bible Society web site ... Donate to Deaf Bible Society in their Bible translation work ... Kids Around the World web site ... KIDStory story in the Philippines

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