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Downward mobility

By Dave Henning / December 22, 2016

“Grace is always a movement of downward mobility.”- Ann Voskamp Concluding Chapter 15 of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp observes the sun cascading down an old wooden barn ladder next to the dinner table.  She likens grace to the spilling down of that sunlight.  Ann encourages: “The world changes when we don’t categorize, polarize, or demonize people […]

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The thread of your life

By Dave Henning / December 21, 2016

“The thread of your life becomes a tapestry of abundant colors only if it ties itself to other lives. . . . let threads of your life break away to let Christ, who is in us, weave around other threads.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 15 of The Broken Way by noting that the […]

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A personal encounter with the cross

By Dave Henning / December 20, 2016

“To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross.  And the cross always entails loss.”- Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes, 1998 “For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place . . . And who know but […]

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Grace waits in broken places

By Dave Henning / December 19, 2016

“Grace waits in broken places. . . . Grace seeps through the broken places and seeps into the lowest places, a balm for wounds.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 14 of The Broken Way by observing that some wounds so twist and form us.  In the process, they become much more painful and deeper than […]

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The greatest danger to our soul

By Dave Henning / December 18, 2016

“The greatest danger to our soul is not success or status or superiority — but our self-lies.”- Ann Voskamp Continuing in Chapter 14 of The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp discusses our identity in Christ.  She emphasizes that our identity in Christ remains the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.  Furthermore,  criticism can’t change our identity in […]

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Grounded transparently in God

By Dave Henning / December 17, 2016

“You are most who you are meant to be when no wind in the world can stop you from being grounded transparently in God.”- Ann Voskamp As Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 14 of The Broken Way, she observes that when people steal a part of you, you must fill the vacuum.  You must find yourself once more.  Yet, we must […]

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Grieving how plans change

By Dave Henning / December 16, 2016

“Grieving how plans change — is part of the plan to change us.”- Ann Voskamp “He [Jesus] willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow.”- Joni Eareckson Tada “But this happened so the works of God might be displayed in him.”- John 9:3 In Chapter 14 (“Breaking the Lies […]

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Shards of our broken hearts

By Dave Henning / December 15, 2016

“I get to live into the dare that . . . though shards of our broken hearts pierce our lungs’ every breath, there’s the grace of a miraculous communion of all the broken.”- Ann Voskamp Author Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 13 of The Broken Way by stating fuller inclusion in the life of Christ comes […]

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A willingness to be inconvenienced

By Dave Henning / December 14, 2016

“A willingness to be inconvenienced is the ultimate proof of love.”- Ann Voskamp As Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 13 of The Broken Way, she discusses the phrase “side by side” in Hebrews 10:33.  The writer of Hebrews refers to those who stood side by side with those publically insulted and persecuted.  Ann notes that “side […]

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Through veins of suffering

By Dave Henning / December 13, 2016

“Love runs through us through veins of suffering.”- Ann Voskamp Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 13 of The Broken Way by reminding us all who love ultimately suffer.  Most noteworthy, when God beckoned “you shall love your neighbor,” He knew we’d also keep suffering in keeping His commandment to love.  Still, Jesus gave that command. Author […]

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Tinsel in a tangle

By Dave Henning / December 12, 2016

“Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle.”- Anonymous “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”- Isaiah 9:2 (KJV) “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”- Tertullian During my childhood years, most people in my […]

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Love like there’s no tomorrow

By Dave Henning / December 11, 2016

“Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.”- Max Lucado “Christ goes to the cross, and we are invited to follow to the same cross.  Not because it is the cross, but because it is His.”- Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering (1986) In Chapter 13 (“The Inconvenient Truth No One […]

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