Welcome to One Single Story, your weekday companion through the One Year Bible. Host Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Sheryl Daughety for a conversation from Proverbs 18:4-5, exploring the kind of deep, life-giving wisdom that guards leaders and communities against favoritism and shallow speech.

Scripture Focus: Proverbs 18:4-5 - Solomon compares the inner life of a wise person to inexhaustible underground waters, then issues a moral warning: wise words run deep, but it is never right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the innocent.

In This Episode:

• What separates life-giving speech from shallow noise
• How favoritism quietly creeps into leadership and how to guard against it
• Why the inner well of wisdom in verse four is the direct foundation for the justice demanded in verse five

Key Quote: "When your internal well is filled by the Spirit of God, you are completely anchored against the shifting winds of human favoritism. Decisions begin on the inside, not on the outside."

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, walking listeners through the One Year Bible one passage at a time. Subscribe wherever you listen, and share with someone ready to go deeper in God's Word.

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Welcome to One Single Story, the weekday Bible study podcast where Pastor Stephen Mizel, Pastor Jay Rivenbark and co-host Pastor Alyssa Bream gather around the Word of God for honest, grounded conversation. Today the team is in Psalm 144, a royal war hymn in which David praises God for equipping him for battle and reflects on what it means to be human before a mighty God.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 144:1-15 - David praises God as his rock and trainer, contrasting God's greatness with human smallness, and closes with a vision of thriving families rooted in God's blessing.

In This Episode:

• How God uses leadership battles, hard days, and endurance to sharpen us spiritually
• Why recognizing your smallness protects you from the pride that comes with success
• How a spiritually healthy church creates a ripple effect that strengthens marriages, families, and communities

Key Quote: "When God is your rock and your trainer, the battles you face don't destroy your future. They secure it." - Pastor Stephen Mizell

One Single Story is a weekday devotional podcast following the One Year Bible reading plan, brought to you by Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina. Find us at onesinglestory.com and visitopendoor.com. Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

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Pastor Stephen Mizell and Pastor Jay Rivenbark are joined by Pastor Alyssa Bream for a conversation from Psalm 143 -- the seventh and final penitential psalm -- exploring what it means to walk through spiritual dry seasons and how intentional remembering can anchor our faith when life feels relentless.

Scripture Focus: Psalm 143:1-12 - David cries out under relentless attack, his spirit fainting and his soul living in darkness as if in the grave, yet turns his eyes toward God's faithfulness.

In This Episode:

• How dry seasons can overwhelm even the strongest believers
• The difference between unhealthy nostalgia and faith-fueled remembering
• Why recalling past hard seasons reminds us that difficult times are never permanent
• Leaning into God with enough trust to believe the rain will come again

Key Quote: "There are places in my life today that are flooded with grace that were meant to be dry. If I can just remember, when I am in a dry spot, that God's always faithful -- that's enough to move forward."

One Single Story is a weekday podcast from Open Door Church in Edenton, North Carolina, offering brief conversational lessons from the One Year Bible. Find us at onesinglestory.com and visitopendoor.com.

Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and share this episode with someone who needs a reminder that the rain will come again.

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