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Dr. Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International, shared a very personal and intimate message on pain in leadership. It would be impossible to convey Stafford's story here. In short, he spoke of how, as a missionary kid, he experienced immense physical and emotional abuse while at a Christian boarding school. However, it was …
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In my study for the last two weeks at Brooklife ("A Second Chance" and "What a Pity"), I came across a lot of material that never made it into my messages. Here is a prayer written by John Calvin, one of the fathers of the Reformation and author of Institutes of the Christian Religion, that …
I concluded the "Gone Fishing" series at Brooklife Church yesterday with a message entitled "What a Pity" on Jonah chapter four. The message focused on how the entire book of Jonah is a journey into the heart of God and God holding up a mirror to our hearts to see how they compare to His …
Yesterday at Brooklife Church, I spoke on Jonah chapter three with a message entitled "A Second Chance." The message was all about how just like God gave Jonah a second chance personally, God gives us second chances in our lives. And when He gives us a second chance, it is, as with Jonah, an opportunity …
Matthew Erickson 