Joey Candillo's story is inspiring and compelling. More important, it is a testament to God's transforming power. People CAN change, that's the point of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. BROKEN VESSELS will help anyone struggling with addiction. In fact, it will help anyone struggling with anything! Joey Candillo is a husband, father and pastor. Most important, he is a child of God. He has been married to Megan since 2005. They have five children. God has allowed him to plant two churches. He planted the Milestone Church, in inner-city Kansas City, in 2002 and he served there for 12 years. In 2014, he planted Grace Church in his hometown of Independence, Missouri and he currently still serves as lead pastor. He graduated from William Chrisman High School in 1992. He earned his bachelor's degree from Baptist Bible College in 2002. He is an avid outdoorsman. He loves to hunt and fish. He also serves as the chaplain for the William Chrisman Football Team. When he was growing up Independence was known as the "Meth Capital of the World." He went to prison in 1997 for selling drugs, but became a Christian while locked up. His church is just down the street from the apartment where he used to sell drugs. He went from pushing dope to pushing hope in his hometown.

Unless your selfish desires, ambition, and flesh are nailed to the cross of Christ, you will amount to nothing. To be able to wait patiently for the perfect timing of God's vindication after passing the tough tests of approval and arrive graciously at the port of breakthrough and destiny is not a cheap matter. Many people are in a hurry, and they think God is too slow. However, without being broken and remolded to fit into the divine pattern, your usefulness will be limited. God uses broken vessels. Are you willing to let God operate on you, cut you into pieces in a way that seems merciless, like a qualified, focused surgeon? God does not spare anyone. God is not a respecter of persons. There are no sacred cows in God's kingdom. We need to be completely open to God's working to prepare His servants for true greatness, through the painful experience of brokenness.

What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart? As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives. In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann's online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world? This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul. As Ann writes, "The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken." Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.

Have you ever struggled trying to discover God's purpose for your life? You know he has a plan. It sure would be nice if he'd let you in on it. Discovering God's will and purpose for your life does not have to be strange, spooky or overwhelming. It can be found and more importantly, God wants to reveal it to you. So, if you feel stuck, then you are in the right place. On this journey, we will unpack 11 different ways God leads you into his will. These sensible concepts will help you understand how God shows up in your everyday situations with the intention of revealing his plan and will for your life. If you are ready to get out of the dark and into the light of how God leads you into his will then join me on this journey. It's time for you to get unstuck and ultimately step into the purpose God has for you.

This collection of some of Elder Holland's most memorable recent talks inspires readers to maintain hope amidst personal trials, suffering, and family struggles by riveting their attention on the Savior who has the power to heal.

Events in our lives, both good and bad, form rings in us like the rings in a tree. Each ring records memories that affect our feelings, our relationships, and our thoughts about God. In this classic work, David Seamands encourages us to live compassionately with ourselves as we allow the Holy Spirit to heal our past. As he helps us name hurdles in our lives—such as guilt, poor self-worth, and perfectionism—he shows us how we can find freedom from our pain and enjoy the abundant life God wants for us.

The greatest benefit of being a broken vessel for the Masters use is the ability to meet and achieve the divine purposes of God birthing you on the earth. Only those who are godly broken can achieve this type of fulfillment. In this book Apostle Dr. Moses Mukwiza shows you how to receive your healing, deliverance and turn your brokenness into a beautiful life!

"Every Christian who has believed into Christ and received Him has a desire to grow in Him. The greatest hindrances to the experience of the growth in life are not outward circumstances and environmental hardships; rather, they are a mind in need of renewing, a will in need of submission to God, and an emotion in need of stability. In the Breaking of the Outer Man and the Release of the Spirit Watchman Nee provides a clear picture of the need for the breaking of the outer man so that the life of Christ in our spirit can flow out as rivers of living water to refresh and build up the people of God. In a new and revised translation of this spiritual classic, Watchman Nee provides crucial insight into the Biblical revelation of the necessity of the dividing of our soul from our spirit"--Back cover

"Matthew Barrett leads us to marvel at both how much and how little we know of God."--Tim Challies, blogger at challies.com; author of Visual Theology For too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level as if he is a God who can be tamed. But he is a God who is high and lifted up, the Creator rather than the creature, someone than whom none greater can be conceived. If God is the most perfect, supreme being, infinite and incomprehensible, then certain perfect-making attributes must be true of him. Perfections like aseity, simplicity, immutability, impassibility, and eternity shield God from being crippled by creaturely limitations. At the same time, this all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-wise God accommodates himself, exhibiting perfect holiness, mercy, and love as he makes known who he is and how he will save us. The attributes of God show us exactly why God is worthy of worship: there is none like him. Join Matthew Barrett as he rediscovers these divine perfections and finds himself surprised by the God he thought he knew. "Matthew Barrett's excellent book lays out in clear, accessible terms what the biblical, historic, ecumenical doctrine of God is, why it matters, and why its abandonment by great swathes of the Protestant world is something that needs correction."--Carl R. Trueman, professor, Grove City College; author of Grace Alone "Perhaps not since R. C. Sproul has there been a treatment of such deep theology with such careful devotion and accessibility. Read this book. And stagger."--Jared Wilson, director of content strategy, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; managing editor, For the Church; author of The Gospel-Driven Church "The knowledge of God is the soil in which Christian piety flourishes. I am grateful for the publication of None Greater and pray it will be a source of growth in godliness among those captivated by its vision of God's supremacy."--Scott Swain, president and James Woodrow Hassell Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary-Orlando; author of Reformed Catholicity

This book...concerns the crucified Christ as the secret to Christian living and growth in life and as the way for God to accomplish His eternal purpose.