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Beyond Brokenness - Gone Fishing
Welcome to another week and another foray into the realm of brokenness. Over the last few months we have covered a lot of ground and touched on some very sensitive subjects. It is my sincere prayer that this has been a help for you and that you have...
Beyond Brokenness - Gone Fishing
Well let me be perfectly honest and tell you all that it is not me who has gone fishing. I am, however, going to talk about someone who at a pivotal point of his life, decided to go fishing. Last week I talked about a young man who had his ankles...
Beyond Brokenness - Hi my name is...
I started this column by saying “Hello, my name is Hamaan.” Now, on the occasion of my return to this column, I would like to say…...Hello, my name is Mephiboseth. I bet two things crossed your mind as you read that; one, who is this...
The Journey Takes a Turn
The last couple of weeks were hard for me. I am not going to lie, but I have never really told my full story to anyone. It isn't that I am afraid of my past, but more about being afraid that all people will think is that I am looking for sympathy. I...
The Journey Continues
I hope I didn't lose many of you after my writing last week. I am sorry if anyone was offended or found my column inappropriate. However, I am not going to stop. You see the Bible tells us that we “overcome by the blood of the Lamb (Jesus) AND the...
My Journey
OK, so first things first. Last week I said I would speak about being broke by the church, however I really feel the need to change gears for awhile. So I hope this doesn't disappoint any of you. Let me begin by saying that I had a very pleasant conv...
Alone and Forsaken
Alone and Forsaken Well here we are again and if we ever needed proof that we need to find ways to move beyond brokenness, all we need to do is turn on the news. Daily, we are given heavy doses of a world broken and in desperate need of fixing. Many...
Alone 3
WOW what a busy week so far. As I am typing this, my family and I just barely got back home from Lake Geneva Christian Camp down in Alexandria. It was our first year with the Minnesota Assemblies of God and our first time ever at their family camp. F...
Alone 2
Beyond Brokenness Greeting friends, I hope you are getting as much out of reading Beyond Brokenness as I am in writing it. You see I came from a place of brokenness, and as such I have a first hand understanding of the things I am sharing with you....
Beyond Brokenness - Holes
Beyond brokenness, it sounds so cliched and almost trivial, but it is a point that 99.9 percent of us try to get to. A point that for far too many seems like a hopeless journey. Hopelessness coupled with despair are not the best of situations and in...
Beyond Brokenness - Restoration
I would like to begin by first expressing my deepest heart felt sympathy for ALL of those who have been impacted by the events in Orlando. I know it has become somewhat cliched but, #PRAY4ORLANDO. I am not going to spend much time on what happened...
Alone
The last time we met we talked about a dude named, Naaman. Today we are going to meet someone new. In the New Testament book of Luke chapter 8 beginning with verse 43, we meet a woman. The Bible never tells us her name, but we do know that she had...
Are you broken?
Hello, my name is Naaman. Well not really it is David, but Naaman is someone I can relate to and I bet some of you can relate to him as well. In the Bible, 2 Kings chapter 5 and verse 1 we are introduced to this guy named Naaman. This one verse...