Sentences with phrase «on brokenness»

I just listened online last week to a Voddie Baucham sermon on brokenness.

But the actualization of greater good seems to be grounded on brokenness in some degree.

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Jesus didn't give the woman at the well or the gay centurion with a slave lover a sermon he loved & helped their brokenness & put them on the path to healing.

A recent On the Square essay entitled «A Poet Haunted by Brokenness» occasioned a small disagreement among some First Things readers.

The trick of teaching children becomes shepherding kids through their own brokenness, letting them in on the tragedy of the world at the same time as you let them in on the goodness of God.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

And, most importantly, to take all of that sin and pain and brokenness in the world onto his body and die on the cross for us, because He loves us, unconditionally, so that we can have a relationship with Him.

The Beatitudes are about receiving the grace that in our own poverty, brokenness, lack of power and ache for justice we can hear the amazing, exuberant, counterintuitive announcement that God is on our side.

I'm also affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, and in Renewal, we frequently use Hasidic metaphors — which in turn draw on kabbalistic metaphors — of raising up the sparks of divinity in creation in order to heal creation's brokenness.

Wrestling with God, with the brokenness of this world, with whether or not He is actually good, is a sign they are traveling well on the journey of grief.

So in our brokenness we journey on, knowing that «when he shall appear» — and only then — «we will be like him, and we will see him as he is.»

Editor's Note: Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family and author of Stronger: Trading Brokenness for Unbreakable Strength (David C. Cook, 2010).

A great deal of attention has focused recently on the difficulties and brokenness that we experience in our most intimate relationships with each other.

Like the creation on which these bodies are dependent, Christ's work is to restore and redeem this brokenness.

Being an ambassador for Christ in the middle of brokenness takes a willingness to sit in the mystery for the long haul with someone whose hurts keep on hurting.

I focus my eyes and my life entirely on the despair or the brokenness, on the frustrations and injustices.

The question that Christians have to answer, then, is this: Do we want to be people who perpetuate this brokenness by insisting on the continued subjugation of women, or do we want to be people who, however imperfectly, attempt to model the harmony of Eden and our hope of paradise restored?

This has been going on for a long time, and the writer of the Genesis account calls it for what it is: a tragedy, an example of our collective brokenness and our desperate need for redemption.

Like somehow, when I wasn't looking for it, when I gave up on ever finding it or even caring about it anymore, God made something beautiful out of my baggage, out of my brokenness, out of my church drama, my own sticky pride.

That may shed light on why, in some cases, our brokenness is actually the flip side of our gifts.

So, what if we defined success based on the truth of who we are in all our glory and brokenness?

In exploring the richness of this gospel Vanier pulls on the threads of vulnerability, fear, welcoming others as beautiful, accepting brokenness, the spirituality of loss, dying to self, and the problems of power in relationships.

Giving up on Christianity because of disappointment with brokenness is a smokescreen.

It is the love which Josiah Royce described in his philosophy of loyalty, a love which remains faithful to the on - going community of interpretation in spite of its brokenness.

Ryken said he was «saddened by the brokenness we have experienced in our relationship and the suffering this has caused on our campus and beyond,» and was «grateful to come to a place of resolution and reconciliation... by Jesus Christ.»

In fact, she's spent decades teaching writing to others, amid her own struggles around identity, brokenness, self - destructive habits, and conflicting emotions about her own mother (it's mere coincidence that my last post was on the Happy / Sad of adoption).

This metabolic brokenness takes a lifetime for some to achieve, and a few years for others, depending on how adapted you are to eating a lot of carbohydrate.

Willis matches that well, piling on an extra layer of brokenness, acquired like soot over the years.

These men describe their feelings of «brokenness» after their return, their inability to reconnect with their families and to go on with their lives.

Perhaps no patent symbolizes the brokenness of the patent system more than Monsanto's European patent on all genetically engineered soybean varieties and seeds — European Patent No. 301,749.

Whatever the case, you faced challenges to repair brokenness, expand on success, open new marketplace roadways — and so on.

This influence can lead to a sense of brokenness and disconnection brought on by an outside source.

As today's individuals are getting more isolated and as many as 40 % to 50 % of marriages end up in brokenness, is there any hope for those who struggle to make sense of what's going on?

Christian counseling for teens utilizes a two - pronged approach toward healing, encompassing both a spiritual core component and focusing on the symptoms of human brokenness.

But then, use that brokenness to motivate you to help them to reach their Christmas grant goals and share them on social media to help them find families!