Breaking Ground

October 25, 2012

Breaks bring us closer.  Closer to God and closer to others.  Take for instance, Peter.  You can’t get much closer to Jesus than Peter did.  From the beginning, Jesus seemed mighty impressed with the fisherman. “You are Simon, son of Jonah,” said Jesus, “[but now] you shall be called Cephas, [a rock]” (John 1:42 NKJV). [...]

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Mirror, Mirror part 2

October 24, 2012

God doesn’t want our stuff.    What we offer is damaged garbage.  Our self-built supports are barriers, imprisoning our hearts with sins we’ve buried deep.  Yet, somehow we believe as long as our sins are not seen, we’re okay.  As long as we’re not like Average Joe.  After all, he went too far to expose himself [...]

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

October 23, 2012

Sometimes God can’t break us because we’re just too good.  We think too highly of ourselves.  We love us.  We may not be smartest, richest, or even prettiest, but compared to Average Joe, we aren’t so bad.  We’re actually a little better.  Yes, when we think of Average Joe we shake our heads, disgusted.  How [...]

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Diffusing His Fragrance

October 22, 2012

Smells make us remember.  A simple whiff of a familiar scent can take us back to a place we thought we’d lost forever.  A sudden odor caught by the breeze can pull us to specific moments that are sometimes wonderful memories and other times, tragedies we’d hoped to forget. The day the forgiven woman broke [...]

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An Interview with Eddie Jones

October 19, 2012

Eddie Jones is the author of eleven books and over 100 articles. He also serves as Acquisition Editor for Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. He is a three-time winner of the Delaware Christian Writers’ Conference, and his YA novel, The Curse of Captain LaFoote, won the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and 2011 Selah Award in [...]

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Broken Worship

October 18, 2012

We cringe at the scandalous story of David.  Lust, adultery, lies, and murder.  Sounds like the latest blockbuster or something found on reality TV.  Yet still today, we remember David as a man after God’s own heart.  But how?  Doesn’t he sound too much like Average Joe?  Isn’t his story similar to the one we’ve [...]

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Broken Purpose

October 17, 2012

God’s transformation is a painful process.  None of us want to go through times of difficulty and suffering.  Oftentimes we view the pain as if God’s somehow forgotten us or doesn’t care about our problems.  In reality, He’s fulfilling a greater purpose.  Through our sadness, He reveals He holds true joy.  Through our storms, He [...]

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Broken Exposure

October 16, 2012

Through confrontation from the prophet Nathan, David was forced to face his sins and his consequences. Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” (2 Samuel 12: 7a).  The cover ups and sleepless nights of schemes were over.  Now David poured himself out before God, completely exposed.  Brokenness exposure. It’s recorded in Psalm 51.  [...]

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The Crush

October 15, 2012

Remember last week’s post about God’s breaking?  ["I Must Break You" post here] That’s what happened to David. You see, David loved God.  Day after day while in the fields watching his father’s sheep, he praised his Holy Father, writing beautiful words of worship.  God anointed David king because of his worship and his great [...]

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“I Must Break You”

October 12, 2012

The world breaks us for power.  Nothing new about this idea.  All of us recognize our world as a selfish sinful place.  It happened way back in the garden of Eden with the fall of the first man.  Since then, our bodies have experienced pain and disease leading to man’s greatest fear of death.  We [...]

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