Perhaps you’ve already experienced circumstances so shattering you may wonder today whether it’s even possible to pick up the pieces. And maybe you can’t. But God can — and the good news is, he wants to reassemble the shards of your life into a wholeness that only the broken can know.
This book was published over twenty years ago, but it is chock full of spiritual truth. Dr. Stanley is one of my favorite Bible teachers. I learn something from him everytime I read his work. In this book he reminds us that God has a purpose for our lives in our times of brokenness, His writing is easy to understand and also comforting. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I highly recommend it.
This was a very encouraging read with many thoughts about why things don’t turn out the way we expect them. It demonstrates that God’s ways are not our ways but they are always for our good and His glory.
Lends a good perspective on how God can take the broken, the pain, the ugly in our lives and turn it and us into blessings.
Great read. Everything has a purpose.. Even brokenness
I have to admit I didn’t read very much of the sample. Once I read what Charles Stanley had to say about the Church I stopped there. I was shocked at his lack of understanding as he wrote on The Church’s One Foundation. He made the same mistake many of our Catholic brethren, saying Peter stood in this place. For someone I have heard praised so much by so many as a great Christian leader, I found myself shocked and severely disappointed. The context of Jesus’ calling him Peter, which even a little bit of study provides us Peter’s name means “a small stone,” according to Strong’s Lexicon of the Greek.
If I may be so bold as to quote my forthcoming book on this subject, the truth that Stanley missed:
Jesus once asked, “Who do you say I am?”
Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, The Son of The living God.”
:17 Jesus told him, “Blessed are you, Simon, Son of Jonah: for flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father in heaven.
:18 “You are Peter, upon This Rock I will build my church. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:15-18).”
Jesus took quick action when the little rock, undermined Jesus’ Foundation, being laid, as he told of his planned death:
Peter rebuked him, saying, “Let [suffering and death] be far from you, Lord. This shall not happen to you.”
:23 But he turned and told Peter off, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me. For you do not think of God’s ways, but of man’s ways (Matthew 16:22-23).”
Taking the first passage out of context, some have put Peter as The Foundation. Even within this famous passage Peter showed he failed to give proper support. As to the apostles, the whole lot of them could not uphold the church without The Chief Cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20).
As Paul wrote, “No foundation can a man lay other than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11).”
Even “apostolic authority” used to canonize the New Testament could have easily fallen shy had church fathers strayed from this only True Foundation.
Jesus builds his church on The Rock of the truth that He is the Christ, the Savior who suffered, died and rose again.
Again, none can build on another foundation other than on Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11).
— from “Come with Jesus, by John,”
an easy to read paraphrase of the Gospel
with commentary by Chaplain Frank Wm. Nagy
Sorry. If I could I would have rated it without even one star. I hate to think what he had to say about tongues, which was advertised in the contents, but not available in the sample.
No just this one faux-paus makes this work “weighed in the balance and found wanting.”
Awesome pastor and author book gives insight and encouragement to my life.