Sentences with phrase «with brokenness»

Leslie gives voice to characters who grapple with their brokenness — and who discover unconventional solutions to life's twists.

Distaste for sin begins with a brokenness over our sin.

But to the extent that we do pray, we identify ourselves as those who are fundamentally dissatisfied with «the way things are,» with the brokenness of our world and our lives, with the absence of God and the delay of the Parousia.

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

I discovered after leaving God called me into the midst of their dysfunction to deal with brokenness that lingered deep inside me.

Though often struggling with brokenness, poverty, confusion or anger, artists are created for a purpose — in God's image — to reflect His creative character.

Our God is an expert at dealing with chaos, with brokenness, with all the worst that we can imagine.

As the gospels present him, Jesus conveys an astonishing empathy with the broken human beings whom he encounters; and it is only through this compassionate identification with their brokenness that he is able to become their healer.

Kirsten Lamb writes a blog for RELEVANT exploring the ways her father's alcoholism affected her and how all of us deal with brokenness.

For someone that is dealing with brokenness in their own life, what's the best approach to speaking healing into their life?

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.

Not exact matches

Our passion for justice has brought us face to face not only with the world's brokenness, but with our own limitations.

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.

Able to respond with gratitude, able to respond with surrendered givenness, able to respond with kindness, because no amount of brokenness gets to break our kindness.

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.

Blessed are us who thirst with those who are parched for a glass of clean water and who hunger with those who crave crumbs from our brushed off tables, for our God is Emmanuel, God with us, and withness breaks brokenness, and being with the broken in the world begins to breaks the brokenness of the world.

Now that I have fallen in step with the man from Nazareth, I want to walk where he walked into the brokenness of this life, and see the Kingdom of God at hand.

What would that child have to do to make you choose to be separated from him / her for eternity — when you had the power to heal their brokenness and restore him / her to wholeness and loving relationship with you and the rest of humanity — and eternity to wait for them to respond to your love?

And we have all watched you boldly take the way of abundance — no matter how it seemed like it didn't matter — because God makes meaning out of messes, because He is the God who can make all our brokenness into abundance, because, you and I say this back to each other over and over again: The Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the broken edges of everything with redeeming, abundant grace.»

They travel with her in the landscape of Calvin's doctrine and assess whether his dramatic account can make sense of their specific experiences of gender oppression and also convey an empowering grace that heals their brokenness.

While the gospel always includes themes of sin and redemption, brokenness and setting things right, we can not be so arrogant as to expect everyone's experience with it to look just like ours.

We do so through our brokenness and thus get it wrong time and again, but with humility, chastened certainty and the grace of a forgiving God, we continue to pursue Him.

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.

Even if you have struggled with sexual sin in the past, what the devil meant for shame, hurt and brokenness, can be redeemed.

We are called to be people of the resurrection, reconcilers of brokenness — and that doesn't usually happen by writing and posting 140 characters of criticism with no visible Christian character behind it.

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.

But we also need to exhibit wisdom to know when, where, with whom and how much to share about our brokenness.

It also unites us, in purpose, with other members of the body of Christ pressing the Gospel story into the brokenness of their world.

it was because He was experiencing a brokenness in His relationship with God the Father that they had never before experienced.

The brokenness that comes from having to make those heartrending choices is captured in a conversation that I had many years ago with a retired active duty army chaplain.

Though it was painful in the moment, it was that brokenness that shifted my direction and that ultimately led me into relationship with the man that I would fall in love with and ultimately marry.

If this is the case, we may be able to understand more deeply God's intentions with regard to human brokenness in today's world.

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

But let me quote the great reformer Martin Luther King Jr., and watch my inbox fill with people asking me if I'm aware of his moral brokenness.»

Love requires patience and often patience requires the willingness to sit in the brokenness of humanity and groan along with it.

The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.

What God does see in those moments is our pain and our brokenness, and He desires to reside with us in those dark, deep places.

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.

It includes that, to be sure, yet it is more extensive: it signifies this concrete human nature in which we find ourselves, with its weaknesses, limitation, brokenness.

When I got off the phone with him, I start thinking more about brokenness.

How does scripture address the brokenness in our relations with family?

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

Sometimes my prayers are filled with the words of praise, other times I'm praying with grief and brokenness, sometimes I'm angry and I believe God can handle it.

It is «a sense of brokenness,» he says, «the shame of feeling «this is not the way it's supposed to be» with my body, my psyche, my sexuality.»

Milkmaid Mama with «This is About Brokenness and Unity» «How do we heal the church?

Much of the older liberal criticism of Anselm's theory derives from a semi-Pelagianism which produces an inadequate sense of the seriousness of sin and the brokenness of our relationship with God.

She evokes his delight in «the world» together with his vivid sense of its brokenness; his dedication to the life of the mind along with his awareness of the limits of reason; his ease amidst cultural pluralism and multiple interpretations; his understanding of choice as always constitutive and often tragic; his struggles with temptation and doubt.

Magazines in the check - out line at the grocery store clamor for our attention with the cacophonous voices of «experts» who will fix our relationships, mend our brokenness and supercharge our self - images.

Manning shared with raw vulnerability about his own sin and brokenness.

Sure, sin and brokenness has infiltrated this Genesis 3 world, but we must remember it all started with Genesis 1.