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The Heart of the Story: Discover Your Life Within the Grand Epic of God's Story
The Heart of the Story will help you see God’s Word in a new and inspiring light. In the Bible’s seemingly disconnected stories, you’ll discover one grand, unfolding epic – God’s story from Genesis onward – and your own life-story contained within it.
“To understand the Bible,” says author and pastor Randy Frazee, “you need bifocal lenses, because two perspectives are involved. The Lower Story, our story, is actually many stories of men and women interacting with God in the daily course of life. The Upper Story is God’s story, the tale of his great, overarching purpose that fits all the individual stories together like panels in one unified mural.”
In this new edition, Randy dives deeper in the Upper and Lower stories and shows how both perspectives will open your eyes to the richness and relevance of the Bible. Illuminating God’s master-plan from Genesis to our daily lives, The Heart of the Story will encourage you to experience the joy that comes from aligning your stories with God’s.
- GenresChristian
320 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2017
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About the author
Randy Frazee
112 books79 followersRandy Frazee is the lead teaching pastor at Westside Family Church in Kansas City. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary, and a leader and innovator in Bible engagement, spiritual formation and biblical community. Randy is the architect of The Story and BELIEVE church engagement campaigns as well as the author of His Mighty Strength; Think, Act, Be Like Jesus; What Happens After You Die; The Connecting Church; Making Room for Life; and the coauthor of Real Simplicity with his wife of 40 years, Rozanne.
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September 5, 2025
Awesome and So Needed!
This book is the best book I’ve ever read to make the Bible come together in chronological order. Reading the old testament can be difficult to understand and especially since it’s not put together so much in order and seems to me to jump around so much that makes it even more confusing. Reading this book is like a breath of fresh air and makes the entire Bible so much easier to understand the how and the why of it all. I have been a believer for many years, although I have not always lived my life out like I should, but reading this book has made so much more sense out of the Bible that my faith has been resparked from a kindle to a flame. It makes me hungry for more and there has been little in this world and my life lately to do what this book has done for me. Thank you for taking this project of writing this book and helping me to more fully understand the Bible and putting the sequence of events in chronological order. It makes so much more sense now and I can’t now more clearly see and understand how God has worked through all these characters lives and how he works through our lives. This book is so worth reading and especially if you struggle to understand God and the Bible.
This book is the best book I’ve ever read to make the Bible come together in chronological order. Reading the old testament can be difficult to understand and especially since it’s not put together so much in order and seems to me to jump around so much that makes it even more confusing. Reading this book is like a breath of fresh air and makes the entire Bible so much easier to understand the how and the why of it all. I have been a believer for many years, although I have not always lived my life out like I should, but reading this book has made so much more sense out of the Bible that my faith has been resparked from a kindle to a flame. It makes me hungry for more and there has been little in this world and my life lately to do what this book has done for me. Thank you for taking this project of writing this book and helping me to more fully understand the Bible and putting the sequence of events in chronological order. It makes so much more sense now and I can’t now more clearly see and understand how God has worked through all these characters lives and how he works through our lives. This book is so worth reading and especially if you struggle to understand God and the Bible.
May 10, 2023
Really good summary of the Bible in chronological order.
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