Breaking Open

How Your Pain Becomes the Path to Living Again

De: Jacob Armstrong

Narrado por: Jacob Armstrong

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In a broken world, we ache for a way to walk through life without giving up or giving in. Instead of breaking down, Jesus offers us another way: breaking open. Discover a new way of living and rise with hope, power, and purpose!

Everyone aches to be whole. We ache to be healed. We ache to be restored. But most of the time we wouldn’t put it into words. We just know we are broken because our child is addicted. 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. It is these Jesus-ways that get us to the good stuff: a life filled with hope and opportunity.

In Breaking Open, you

• discover how your greatest heartaches can open you up to the life God desires for you,
• learn how to slow down from a frenzied pace and settle into the spacious life you have been longing for right now,
• stop living a cheap imitation of life and develop trust in who God says you are,
• receive permission not to have it all together by finding the power to love and live vulnerably, and
• find the courage to name the achy undercurrent in your soul so you can break it wide open and let Jesus heal you and make you whole.

Jesus never intended for us to break and stay shattered, but to fall and rise differently. To rise with power, rise with hope, rise with purpose. In Breaking Open, learn to rise open to a new way of living!

©2022 Jacob Armstrong (P)2022 Thomas Nelson

Great book!

I really enjoyed this book! Jacob writes about breaking open and using God’s word to help you get through the good and the bad times. This book will help you break open to get through a break through.

A book from the heart

Jacob, you are amazing and this book was awesome! Your heart was telling the story and it showed. Thanks for writing this message that we can listen or read Over & over again.

You can do it!

I have read the paperback but loved loved the audible so much more. Jacob you are an angel on earth and I thank you for writing and recording your heart!

Beautiful mess!

Jacob was a beautiful mess, but his story has truly blessed my mess! I started this book after breaking down after the loss of my brother, I didn't think I was going to survive this breakdown although by God's grace, I had miraculously survived the death of son earlier in my life. My brother's death was such a shock, and I felt so much guilt, regret, shame, and fear that I was in a constant state of anxiety. I can't explain the reasons here, but it felt like I was doomed forever! But praise be to God, the prayers of so many, my patient husband, and this book, I am learning to break open and continue to heal with God's grace.

alone

you are breaking open for the first time don't read this book alone read this book with a mentor or a minister