A Dangerous Prayer: Nehemiah
Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to a place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken.
Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to a place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken.
Inside Out: Joy penetrates the command center in Riley’s head, seizes the control panel, looks at Anxiety and declares, “Let her go.”
The Lord’s Prayer was not to be misunderstood as a magical formula to be recited word for word, but a pattern to follow.
One of the most overlooked books in the Bible is the story of a broken and incarcerated youth who didn’t realize his God-given potential until a mentor invested in his life.
Noah “became drunk,” and shameful things followed. In this we see that Noah was far from perfect. He was broken just like the rest of us. But God never defines him by his failure.
We should learn from the past, but God never lets our past dictate our future. Jesus healed people whose lives were broken from the inside out, and Mary Magdalene was one of them.
God uses broken people. He’s already factored in their failures. Peter’s relationship with Jesus is textual proof of this.
Kintsugi is a 500-year-old Japanese art with an interesting philosophy. In kintsugi, broken pottery is valued as treasure rather than trash.
Rahab was typecast too. If Netflix was doing a docuseries on the “red light district” of Jericho, this Canaanite woman would’ve likely been cast as the main character.
When God chooses to use a broken person, He doesn’t check with other broken people to get their opinion or approval.