Healing Wounds of the Heart

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Healing Wounds of the Heart

September 8, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown

Kevin Brown

Sep 5, 2024, 6:30 PM (4 days ago)

to Christopher, Deborah, Joy, Michael, Jill, Lee, me

Introduction:

We live from the heart. It’s the innermost part of our being. We may think with our minds and act from our physical bodies, but we live from the heart. When our hearts are whole, healthy and pure we think and act as powerfully as we were designed. But when the heart is wounded, weighted down and broken it hinders and even corrupts our thoughts and actions. Oftentimes, what we describe as, “the way God made us”, would be more accurately described as the way life has wounded or broken us. But there is healing for our wounded and even broken hearts. God wants us to not only be made whole; God wants us to learn to live whole.

Scripture(s): (NKJV)

• Matthew 25:14-30

• Psalm 34:19

Slide:

“If your concept of God is radically false, then the more devout you are, the worse it will be for you.” — Dany Akin, A Theology for the Church

9.8.2024 Message Takeaways

1. God hasn’t given us all the same gifts but God has the same expectation for us all.

2. We're concerned about what we experience but Jesus is more concerned about what we conclude.

3. Disconnecting from our feelings is not an act of faith; it’s an act of avoidance.

Healing Wounds of the Heart - Living From and Living For the Very Goodness of God

October 20, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown

Humanity was created to live from and for the very goodness of God. God’s very goodness isn’t the quality or ability of an individual part; God’s very goodness refers to the completeness and wellness of the whole. We were created to live from and for relational wholeness and wellness — the very goodness of God.

Healing Wounds of the Heart: The Shepherd of my Soul

October 13, 2024 • Elder Le-Toyja Averhart

All too often wounds of the heart atrophy our response to the Shepherd of our souls, causing us to miss the Provision, Protection, and Prosperity our Abba longs to supply. There are rituals and routines, sacred rhythms if you will, that are intended to align us with the rhythm of heaven so that our cadence and movement flow with and follow that of the Spirit, the One in Whom we live, move and have our being. As we journey through the 23rd Psalm with an eye on the Good Shepherd, may we encounter the deep healing that comes as we rest the weight of our lives on the Lover of our Soul.

Healing Wounds of the Heart: Learning to Trust Again and Again

October 6, 2024 • Pastor Kevin Brown

There are times, when God allows moments that bring us to the end of ourselves; times when we face odds and obstacles that we have no way of overcoming; times when we face enemies and assailants that have every intent on destroying us; times when we see our families, friends, and resources under attack with no way of rescue or relief. But those can be the very moments, when God is healing our hearts. Those can be the very moments when we are learning to trust again. Some heart wounds persist, because we refuse to trust God again and again.