C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – Conclusion

“Everybody has a story of sorrow to tell.” This is what a Brazilian friend and colleague used to say. We all have. We live in a broken world, and we are broken too. The prophet Isaiah puts it in a beautiful way: “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – I want to come back!

Have you ever wandered away from God and His church to the point that you felt a stranger to your own faith? People come to you and ask you about your God, your church, and your faith, and you do not have anything to say? Those situations have the ability to bring feelings and memories […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – Do not take me now!

As we age, our preoccupation with our body and health increases. Every new pain or discomfort comes with that feeling that maybe this is something else. Every time that our doctor calls us after receiving our tests gives us chills. It gets worse when he or she says: “We need to talk.” Now this feeling […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – I know I have messed up!

Our parents, our teachers, our coaches, our friends, the bullies, our enemies, our friends who betrayed us, God Himself, and the list goes on, and on, and on. We always find someone to blame for the adversities that we encounter and the problems that we face in our lives. As we learned with the Psalms […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – They are against me without any reason!

Have you ever been blindsided? Not only have you been caught by surprise, but attacked by someone that you would never expect? It could be a good friend that you trusted, a long time colleague, or a member of your own family. We share this common experience. We expect opposition from our enemies, but not […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – They are plotting against me

I remember a time long ago when I faced opposition because of my ministry. I decided to make some changes in the way we were doing church, and that stirred powerful people against me. I wrote a book in Portuguese about that (A Doutrina da Gravata). During that time, even though things were calm, I […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – Do not let me die like the ungodly

Have you in your Christian journey gotten so close to the ungodly and distanced yourself so far from God’s precepts that you feared for your life? Maybe you thought that if God punished your enemies, because of the close proximity, you would be affected in the same way and would be counted as one of […]

C’mon God, Give Me a Break! – That was a close one!

Probably, everybody has a story, or more, to tell about a situation that could have been disastrous, but for some reason was not. For example, a car accident that could have had fatal consequences but ended up not being so bad. Sometimes people in the military can remember circumstances when they thought that everything was […]