BRKN Soul Care

A place where you are seen, heard, and never alone.

BRKN Soul Care

A place where you are seen, heard, and never alone.

SOUL MATTERS — THE BRKN BLOG

  • When the Light Blinds You — The Road to Damascus and Trusting God in the Dark

    Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Acts 9:3-4, 8-9 “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ …Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.” — Acts 9:3-4, 8-9 Saul was on his way somewhere specific. He had a destination, a purpose, a…

  • Whatever You Did for the Least of These — The Sacred Weight of Presence

    Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: Matthew 25:40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” — Matthew 25:40 Jesus has a way of upending the categories we use to decide who matters. In Matthew 25, He paints a picture of the final accounting — the moment where everything is weighed and seen and named. And in that picture, the criteria by which lives are evaluated is not doctrinal precision or public ministry or the size of the platform or…

  • The Potter’s Hands — What Isaiah and Jeremiah Teach Us About Redeeming Brokenness

    Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: Isaiah 64:8, Jeremiah 18:3-4 “Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.” — Isaiah 64:8 “So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.” — Jeremiah 18:3–4 The clay does not choose the wheel. It does not choose the potter’s hands, or the…

  • Unbind Him and Let Him Go — What Lazarus Teaches Us About Community in Healing

    Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: John 11:43-44 “When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Take off the grave clothes and let him go.’” — John 11:43–44 There is a moment in the resurrection of Lazarus that I have never been able to move past quickly. Jesus has already done the impossible thing. He has called a dead man out of a tomb. Lazarus is alive. The miracle…

  • Four Friends and a Roof — What Mark 2 Teaches Us About Showing Up

    Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scriptures: Mark 2:3-5 “And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’” — Mark 2:3–5 The paralyzed man did not get himself to Jesus. He could not. That is the point. His condition made it impossible for him to do…