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Part One – The Art of Storytelling
1. A Storyteller’s Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2. How Stories “Work”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3. Retelling the Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4. Storytelling Tips and Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Part Two – Stories
The Old Testament
1. The Whole Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2. The Fourth Vulture (Genesis 21:8–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3. A Wife for Isaac (Genesis 24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4. I Hear Them Crying (Exodus 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5. A Thousand Bricks a Day (Exodus 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6. But Pharaoh Would Not Listen (Exodus 7–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7. The Tyrant’s Tale (Exodus 7–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
8. I Will Be Your God (Exodus 16–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
9. The Donkey and the Sword (Numbers 22–24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
10. The Walls Fall Down (Joshua 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
11. Ehud and Eglon (Judges 13:12–30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
12. Chariot Wheels (Judges 4–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
13. The Fleece on the Floor (Judges 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
14. A Tale of Two Families (Samuel 1–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
15. Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1–15a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
16. Good Idea. God Idea. (2 Samuel 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
17. Angel Food (1 Kings 19:1–8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
18. Ahab and Jezebel – The Rotten Ruler’s Tale
(1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 9:30–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
19. Water and Fire and Sky (2 Kings 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
20. Jars (2 Kings 4:1–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
21. See! (2 Kings 6:8–23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
22. Athalia – The Wicked Granny’s Tale (2 Chronicles 22–23) . . . . 122
23. Everything but You (Ecclesiastes 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
24. The Passion (Isaiah 53:5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

25. Some Things I Just Don’t Understand (Jeremiah 1:5) . . . . . . . . . 131
26. King Nebuchadnezzar’s First Dream (Daniel 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
27. The Men Who Liked to Say “NO!” (Daniel 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
28. Dinner in the Lion’s Den (Daniel 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
29. The Runaway’s Tale (Jonah) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
The New Testament
1. Lights and Bells (Matthew 1–2, Luke 1–2:1–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
2. Foxes, Fish Food, and Flying Things (Matthew 8:19–27) . . . . . . 153
3. A Table Story (Matthew 9:9–13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
4. Peter Walks on Water (Matthew 14:22–33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5. Two Answers (Matthew 16:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6. One Out of a Hundred (Matthew 18:12–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
7. The Apostle Paul and Sir Isaac Newton
(Matthew 28, Luke 24, John 20, 1 Corinthians 15) . . . . . . . . . . . 165
8. So Sow! (Mark 4:1–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
9. A Little Shining, A Little Sowing (Mark 4:21–32) . . . . . . . . . . . 169
10. Angel Surprise (Luke 1:26–38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
11. “Magnificent” – Mary’s Song (Luke 1:46–55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
12. A Christmas Eve Service for Those Who Don’t Feel Like
Celebrating (Luke 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
13. Midnight – A Meditation for Christmas or Good Friday
(Luke 2:1–20, John 3:1–21, Luke 22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
14. Old Shepherd (Luke 2:8–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
15. A Night the Stars Danced for Joy (Luke 2:8–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
16. Mary Went Looking for Jesus (Luke 2:41–50; John 19:25) . . . . 188
17. Hometown Boy (Luke 4:14–30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
18. Poor, Hungry, Sad, and Unpopular (Luke 6:20–26) . . . . . . . . . . .193
19. Having His Way (Luke 7:1–10, Matthew 8:5–13) . . . . . . . . . . . 195
20. Sowers and Soil and Seeds (Luke 8:1–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
21. Glow, Moses, Glow! (Luke 9:28–36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
22. Foxes, Funerals, and Furrows (Luke 9:57–62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
23. Not a Story about Loving (Luke 10:25–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
24. Buzz-y (Luke 10:38–42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
25. Thinkin’ ’bout Ravens (Luke 12:22–34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
26. Thinkin’ ’bout Mustard (Luke 13:18–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
27. Thinkin’ ’bout Foxes and Chickens (Luke 13:31–35) . . . . . . . . . . 213
28. A Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
29. A Maths Problem (Luke 15:1–2, 8–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

30. Just Waiting (Luke 15:11–32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
31. There Was an Old Woman Who Pestered a Judge
(Luke 18:1–8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
32. Kids, Camels and the Kingdom of God (Luke 18:15–30) . . . . . . 224
33. He Was a Rich Man (Luke 18:18–25, 19:1–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
34. The Anatomy of Faith (Luke 18:35–43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
35. The Ballad of a Little Man (Luke 19:1–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
36. Three (Luke 22:54–62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
37. Travail (Luke 23:26–49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
38. Women! (Luke 24:1–12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
39. Angel of Death and Life (Luke 24:1–12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
40. The Tree of Life, or The Tale of Three More Trees
(Genesis 3, Matthew 27:11–66) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
41. Three Men and a Fig Tree (John 1:43–51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
42. The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1–11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
43. I Am the Bread (John 6:1–15, 25-29, Luke 24:13–35) . . . . . . . . 254
44. I Am the Good Shepherd – Three Sheep Stories (John 10:1–21) .257
45. His Towel (John 13:1–17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
46. I Am the Vine: A Communion Meditation (John 15:1–17) . . . . 262
47. Jesus Looks Down (John 19:1–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
48. Make the Wind Blow (Acts 2:1–41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
49. A Joke at Midnight (Acts 2:6–17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
50. A Visit to Lystra (Acts 14:8–18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
51. The Angel in the Storm (Acts 27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
52. Clouds and Crowds and Witnesses (Hebrews 11, 12) . . . . . . . . . 279
53. A Choosy People (1 Peter 2:9–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
54. Let’s Hear it for the Church! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

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      Table of Contents

      Part One – The Art of Storytelling
      1. A Storyteller’s Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
      2. How Stories “Work”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
      3. Retelling the Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
      4. Storytelling Tips and Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

      Part Two – Stories
      The Old Testament
      1. The Whole Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
      2. The Fourth Vulture (Genesis 21:8–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
      3. A Wife for Isaac (Genesis 24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
      4. I Hear Them Crying (Exodus 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
      5. A Thousand Bricks a Day (Exodus 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
      6. But Pharaoh Would Not Listen (Exodus 7–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
      7. The Tyrant’s Tale (Exodus 7–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
      8. I Will Be Your God (Exodus 16–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
      9. The Donkey and the Sword (Numbers 22–24) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
      10. The Walls Fall Down (Joshua 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
      11. Ehud and Eglon (Judges 13:12–30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
      12. Chariot Wheels (Judges 4–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
      13. The Fleece on the Floor (Judges 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
      14. A Tale of Two Families (Samuel 1–2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
      15. Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1–15a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
      16. Good Idea. God Idea. (2 Samuel 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
      17. Angel Food (1 Kings 19:1–8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
      18. Ahab and Jezebel – The Rotten Ruler’s Tale
      (1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 9:30–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
      19. Water and Fire and Sky (2 Kings 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
      20. Jars (2 Kings 4:1–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
      21. See! (2 Kings 6:8–23) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
      22. Athalia – The Wicked Granny’s Tale (2 Chronicles 22–23) . . . . 122
      23. Everything but You (Ecclesiastes 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
      24. The Passion (Isaiah 53:5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

      25. Some Things I Just Don’t Understand (Jeremiah 1:5) . . . . . . . . . 131
      26. King Nebuchadnezzar’s First Dream (Daniel 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
      27. The Men Who Liked to Say “NO!” (Daniel 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
      28. Dinner in the Lion’s Den (Daniel 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
      29. The Runaway’s Tale (Jonah) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
      The New Testament
      1. Lights and Bells (Matthew 1–2, Luke 1–2:1–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
      2. Foxes, Fish Food, and Flying Things (Matthew 8:19–27) . . . . . . 153
      3. A Table Story (Matthew 9:9–13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
      4. Peter Walks on Water (Matthew 14:22–33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
      5. Two Answers (Matthew 16:25) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
      6. One Out of a Hundred (Matthew 18:12–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
      7. The Apostle Paul and Sir Isaac Newton
      (Matthew 28, Luke 24, John 20, 1 Corinthians 15) . . . . . . . . . . . 165
      8. So Sow! (Mark 4:1–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
      9. A Little Shining, A Little Sowing (Mark 4:21–32) . . . . . . . . . . . 169
      10. Angel Surprise (Luke 1:26–38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
      11. “Magnificent” – Mary’s Song (Luke 1:46–55) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
      12. A Christmas Eve Service for Those Who Don’t Feel Like
      Celebrating (Luke 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
      13. Midnight – A Meditation for Christmas or Good Friday
      (Luke 2:1–20, John 3:1–21, Luke 22) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
      14. Old Shepherd (Luke 2:8–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
      15. A Night the Stars Danced for Joy (Luke 2:8–20) . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
      16. Mary Went Looking for Jesus (Luke 2:41–50; John 19:25) . . . . 188
      17. Hometown Boy (Luke 4:14–30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
      18. Poor, Hungry, Sad, and Unpopular (Luke 6:20–26) . . . . . . . . . . .193
      19. Having His Way (Luke 7:1–10, Matthew 8:5–13) . . . . . . . . . . . 195
      20. Sowers and Soil and Seeds (Luke 8:1–14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
      21. Glow, Moses, Glow! (Luke 9:28–36) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
      22. Foxes, Funerals, and Furrows (Luke 9:57–62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
      23. Not a Story about Loving (Luke 10:25–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
      24. Buzz-y (Luke 10:38–42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
      25. Thinkin’ ’bout Ravens (Luke 12:22–34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
      26. Thinkin’ ’bout Mustard (Luke 13:18–21) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
      27. Thinkin’ ’bout Foxes and Chickens (Luke 13:31–35) . . . . . . . . . . 213
      28. A Lost Sheep (Luke 15:1–7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
      29. A Maths Problem (Luke 15:1–2, 8–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

      30. Just Waiting (Luke 15:11–32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
      31. There Was an Old Woman Who Pestered a Judge
      (Luke 18:1–8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
      32. Kids, Camels and the Kingdom of God (Luke 18:15–30) . . . . . . 224
      33. He Was a Rich Man (Luke 18:18–25, 19:1–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
      34. The Anatomy of Faith (Luke 18:35–43) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
      35. The Ballad of a Little Man (Luke 19:1–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
      36. Three (Luke 22:54–62) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
      37. Travail (Luke 23:26–49) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
      38. Women! (Luke 24:1–12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
      39. Angel of Death and Life (Luke 24:1–12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
      40. The Tree of Life, or The Tale of Three More Trees
      (Genesis 3, Matthew 27:11–66) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
      41. Three Men and a Fig Tree (John 1:43–51) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
      42. The Wedding at Cana (John 2:1–11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
      43. I Am the Bread (John 6:1–15, 25-29, Luke 24:13–35) . . . . . . . . 254
      44. I Am the Good Shepherd – Three Sheep Stories (John 10:1–21) .257
      45. His Towel (John 13:1–17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
      46. I Am the Vine: A Communion Meditation (John 15:1–17) . . . . 262
      47. Jesus Looks Down (John 19:1–37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
      48. Make the Wind Blow (Acts 2:1–41) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
      49. A Joke at Midnight (Acts 2:6–17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
      50. A Visit to Lystra (Acts 14:8–18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
      51. The Angel in the Storm (Acts 27) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
      52. Clouds and Crowds and Witnesses (Hebrews 11, 12) . . . . . . . . . 279
      53. A Choosy People (1 Peter 2:9–10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282
      54. Let’s Hear it for the Church! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

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