Breaking Open: How Your Pain Becomes the Path to Living Again

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In a broken world,we ache foraway to walk through lifewithoutgivingup or givingin.Instead of breaking down, Jesus offers us another way:breaking open.Discovera new way of livingand 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 wewouldnt put itintowords. 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 cant sustain. Miscarriage, divorce, loneliness. In all of it, we ache.

InBreaking Open, Pastor Jacob Armstrong exposes the seven dangerous waysthat we commonly seek to avoid a breakdown,showing howthese seven ways arestealinglife from us, and thenwalks usthrough a progression of seven Jesus-ways that move us from merely breaking to breaking open.It is theseJesus-waysthatget us to the good stuff: a life filled with hope and opportunity.

InBreaking 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 tobreakand stayshattered, but to fall and rise differently. To rise with power, rise with hope, rise with purpose.InBreaking Open, learn torise open to a new way of living!

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Jacob Armstrong is a published author, speaker, and pastor of Providence Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Jacob and his wife, Rachel, founded Providence Church in 2008 with a vision to see people who feel disconnected from God and the church find hope, healing, and wholeness in Jesus Christ. Providence Church has been one of the 100 fastest growing churches in the nation the last three years.