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One of the most powerful, meaningful, and significant words in the Bible is the Hebrew word checed, pronounced kheh’-sed. We have been talking about God’s love, that it is the essence of our lives. God didn’t create a physical universe because he was bored. He created because He wanted to have an intimate and loving…

Last time we looked at two stories, the song Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, and the movie Cast Away. In both stories, a woman is in love with a man who has gone away and not returned — one to war and one on a plane that went down in the middle of the…

Last time I gave you an assignment. I asked if you would listen to the song Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden, by Tim O’Brien. It can be found on the album Fiddler’s Green. Hopefully you have a music streaming service, but if not, you can still find the lyrics online if you search the…

I believe it’s time again to pause and find a specific story we can use as an example. My thesis from the beginning has been that there is only one story of humanity, God’s Story, but it has never been easy to see. For humanity’s story began a very long time ago and none of…

Last time we finished with The Jesus Storybook Bible and mentioned how the author, Susan Lloyd-Jones, summarizes this book and the whole Bible itself, with the phrase: You see, no matter what, in spite of everything, God would love his children – with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love. 1…

Were you surprised that most stories conform to just seven basic plots, but even more, all seven are different aspects of the very same, overarching story – “in the end darkness is overcome, and light wins the day?” All seven plots are different aspects of the same, universal struggle between good and evil. This struggle…

After thirty years of research, Christopher Booker discovered there are only seven basic plots in most of the stories ever written. Even more, they are all aspects of one universal plot — “In the end darkness is overcome, and light wins the day.” Mr. Booker believed this incredible fact could be explained by the theories…

Last time we described the seven basic plots Christopher Booker discovered in over thirty years of research. No one could ever read all the stories ever written, even with a hundred and thirty years; but I believe Mr. Booker read a very representative sample, as much as anyone has ever read. Read his book, all…

After thirty years of research, Christopher Booker concluded there were only seven basic plots in all the stories ever written. Quite a claim. Might the truth be somewhat different? Possibly. Is there a great deal of truth in what he discovered? I believe so. Here they are (and I apologize for the length of this…

Last time we talked about the basic plots in stories. Might there only be a small number of plots in all the stories ever written? People have suggested this from time to time, but no one had ever seriously investigated it. Until . . . Christopher Booker. He had been writing a book which focused…