A WORD ON BROKENNESS:

We all have brokenness, or fractures, at various degrees, in our lives.   Whether it’s the need for forgiveness for our sins or for other’s sins against us, redemption, healing, humility, compassion, releasing shame, you put a name to it, God is there and ready to give you what you need to be beautifully broken.
The promise of the gospel is that those broken cracks, in all of us bruised, battered, broken people, are the places where the true power of the Spirit is released through the gold of grace.
Learn more about the hope that awaits us all by clicking here for the Laity Sunday message.
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Joshua 1:9
Have not I commanded thee?  Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.

Isaiah 60:20
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Psalms 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalms 27:13-14
I remain confident of this:   I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.   Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

1 Peter 5:6-7
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.

Matthew 11:28-29
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; but I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.