Tag Archives: brokenness
Kissing Twisted Lips
God accommodates Himself to our ‘sickness’. We find that He has this beautiful quality about Him, that He becomes quite tender and gentle around any spiritual disease. In his book Mortal Lessons (Touchstone Books, 1987) physician Richard Selzer describes a scene in a hospital room after he had performed surgery on a young woman’s face: [...]
Vessel to Vessel: What is God Doing to Me?
Being Poured from Vessel to Vessel “Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.” Jeremiah 48:11 The expression, “emptied from vessel [...]
When Sin Brutalizes You
When Our Sin Overwhelms Us “There are three things for certain. #1 You will never forget your sins. #2 God has forgotten them. #3 The Devil will try to make you remember your sins. The question is who are we going to side with? God says our sins are past, cleansed, and gone. You cannot go on with [...]
Does Sickness Bless You?
The Sick Child, Edward Munch, 1885-1886 “A man was lying there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.” John 5:5 That was a long time to be sick. It is very hard to be an invalid year after year. This day’s reading may come to some who have been thus afflicted, and we may [...]
Evil Inside Us
“More than anything else, a person’s mind is evil and cannot be healed. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9, NCV “I’m really not as bad as you think I am. Actually, I am much worse.” The Bible in its tremendous insight, never ever makes humans to be wonderful creatures. I think we would all volunteer [...]
Be Ye Glad
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” 1 Peter 4:13, KJV BE YE GLAD Lyrics In these days of confused situations. In these nights of a restless remorse, When the heart and the soul of the nation, [...]
Four Truths from God
I want to share four truths that I heard in church last Sunday. They are four truths that our youth minister heard a Christian speaker share at a conference earlier last week. But these four truths weren’t new with that speaker either. Their source is God and they are told to us in His Word. For [...]
Growth in the Troughs of Life
This post has been floating around in my head for almost two weeks now, and I had fully intended to post it here at Broken Believers last weekend, but just didn’t get it done. In retrospect, learning of the great trough our dear brother Bryan is going through, I realize that either I should have [...]
God’s Strange University
No book, nor tutor will give us the education we need. We must patiently go through seasons of difficulty and temptation before we can understand what our brother or sister is facing. Furthermore, we must advance through different levels; sickness, injury, loss and discouragement. On top of this, we must be tutored in the language [...]