Northern Roads by Jeremy Norton

Tag: story

Adventure, Books, Technology, The North

How to Use Video To Tell a Story (Northern Roads Book Trailer)

“We use video to tell your story.” That’s the slogan that splashes across the website of Martin Media located in Kenai, Alaska. A company that provides expert videography, dronography and photography. But what does that look like exactly?

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Bible, Discipleship

HOW TO STOP LIVING FOR SELF

There’s a huge difference between intention and direction. Because intention never actually gets us to our desired destination. That is, until we stop, and change our direction. If we can keep Jesus at the centre, our direction changes. When Jesus is the centre and the standard, our best intentions turn into Gospel-focused direction. And we live a better story!

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Discipleship, Leadership

HOW TO LIVE A LIFE OF LEGACY THIS YEAR

Ask a Christian to place themselves in the David & Goliath account in Scripture. Ask them to use it as a metaphor for overcoming this coming year. Almost always, they will place themselves in David’s place, overcoming the giant, Goliath. And that’s where a false Gospel slips into that chapter. We take the place of Jesus in our own story!

In reality, we’re on the hill, looking down at the battlefield in fear. Only after Jesus has overcome and defeated our giants, can we run down to victory BEHIND Him!

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Discipleship, Movies

HOW TO OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD

A Children’s Story. At Disneyland, there’s a famous attraction based on the movie, Alice in Wonderland called the Mad Tea Party. If you don’t know it,

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Discipleship, Movies

THERE ARE NO EXTRAS IN THE GOSPEL

We All Have a Lead Role. I want to do a follow-up post to yesterday’s post titled, “The Extras of the Gospel“. We started this

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Books, Movies

THE FORCE AWAKENS…

…A New Generation of Star Wars Fans This Christmas, the Star Wars saga continued into its 7th film. All over the world, a multi-generational audience

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Leadership, Music

HOW GOD TOOK CENTRE STAGE

All Through a Bass Player’s Testimony. Last night, was fantastic!I had the privilege of taking a small group of teens and young adults to The

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Ministry, Movies, Music, Outreach

Have You Been Quoting Nativity Inconsistencies? (Small Group Study)

As we work our way through the month of December, we have continued with our Ignited Christmas series. In this series, we’ve used some of IgniterMedia.com’s Christmas Mini-Movies. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the Nativity story inconsistencies and inaccuracies that we quote as Believers.

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Bible, Movies, NT

The Connection Between Modern Western Church and Nacho Libre

Why do we do what we do? Are we stuck between legalistic church life (pursing religious piety) and prideful rebellion (self-seeking glory)? How are these behaviours centred on the Gospel? How are they reflecting Jesus to our world?

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Bible, Discipleship, Ministry

How Does One Boast In the Lord?

What is boasting? According to Merriam-Webster, boasting is defined as, “to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.” Unfortunately, many people struggle with self-boasting, present company included. It happens so quickly and easily.

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Adventure, Discipleship, Ministry

The Benefit of Embracing Stories Instead of Checklists

During my youth pastor days, we worked through John Eldredge’s  EPIC series within our High School Discipleship program. John explains Christianity as a great story that we are living. He proposes that history’s great stories became great because they have the key elements of our story.

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Adventure, Bible, Books, Gospels, Ministry

God Is Writing An Incredible Story for Our Lives

Throughout this journey, my trust in God’s sovereignty has become easier to grasp. It’s not that I haven’t experienced conflict and trial. The difference is that this concept of God’s great Story has driven me to pray in ways that I don’t normally experience.

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