Breaking Open

How Your Pain Becomes the Path to Living Again

Breaking Open

How Your Pain Becomes the Path to Living Again

by Jacob Armstrong

Pub Date 19 Jul 2022

Thomas Nelson — W Publishing, Thomas Nelson

Christian

I am reviewing a copy of Breaking Open through Thomas Nelson and Netgalley:

We live in a broken world and as such we ache to go through life without giving up or in. Jesus offers us another option, instead of breaking down we can break open.

We ache to be whole, we ache to be healed, we ache to be restored. But most of the time we are unable to put it into words. We are broken because we have a child whose fell into addiction We ache because the depression of our youth is now the depression of our golden years. We are stretched to the point of breaking because our career ambitions position us to commit to a pace we can’t sustain. Miscarriage, divorce, loneliness. In all of it, we ache.

In Breaking Open Pastor Jacob Armstrong exposes the seven dangerous ways that we commonly seek to avoid a breakdown, showing how these seven ways are stealing life from us, and then walks us through a progression of seven Jesus-ways that move us from merely breaking to breaking open.