Brokenness: How God Redeems Pain and Suffering

by Lon Solomon, Tim LaHaye (Foreword)

In 1992, Pastor Lon Solomon's career was on a speedy ascent. He was the senior pastor at McLean Bible Church, an influential and rapidly growing church in the suburbs of the nation's capital. In his weekly sermons he was funny, engaging, and self-effacing. He was successful, comfortable, respected by his peers and reaching Washington's elite decision makers. His life could not have been better. That's precisely when his world began to crumble. He didn't see it at the time, but today Pastor Solomon knows that God was sending the blessing of brokenness to him. It came in the form of a beautiful daughter who for years would suffer through thousands of seizures and become severely impaired, physically and mentally. He and his family were thrust into days of emotional darkness. Pastor Solomon began to question his faith and feared he would fail his congregation. In this touching and important book, he tells how God shattered him for the sole purpose of helping him reach his full potential as a servant of Christ. Today, his church is having a major impact on Washington, D.C., with more than 10,000 worshipers attending services each weekend. Read this book and you'll never be the same.

Genres: Faith

Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! i started it this morning could't put it down, but since I had to work I put it away. Started reading it this evening and finished it. This book is want everyone should read.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was given to me by my dad in about 2013. I didn’t read it because I was honestly a bit scared about what it would say. My dad’s recommendation was following the death of my mom in 2009 and my dad passed over in 2015.

Oddly, this was the time. I read and was amazed. Insight. Understanding. Faith.

When my mom died, I remember the closeness of God. I truly wondered if a persons faith would spread to those left living. This is much more the case. Brokenness lifts you, grows you, brings you into Gods hand.

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As God begins to break us, one of the first results that we notice is a new sense of the closeness of God. It is not a theological closeness, Nora, doctrine, closeness, but an experiential closeness – tender intimacy with God that we have never experienced before.

This is was non-seekers do not understand.

[Nancy]

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[Kris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty amazing personal account of how God used an extremely difficult circumstance in Lon Solomon's life to transform him and his faith.