God is Watching. Episode 91
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
The God who sees, slows, redirects, and teaches: • Genesis 16:13 — El Roi, the God who sees • Deuteronomy 8:2 — God leads the long way to teach • Psalm 23 — He slows you to restore you • Proverbs 16:9 — God directs your steps • Psalm 37:23 — Ordered steps, not rushed steps
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Staying Positive in a Negative World — By the Power of God’s Grace (90)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
The World Is Loud, but Grace Is Stronger Negativity has a way of filling the air like static. It’s on the news, in conversations, in the quiet corners of our own minds. But the believer’s hope is not built on the world’s volume — it’s built on God’s character. Staying positive is not pretending everything is fine. It’s remembering Who holds you when everything is shaking. Grace is not just a doctrine. Grace is oxygen for the soul. “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9
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When Sunday Isn’t Enough: Becoming the Christian Your Children Actually Know. (89)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
The heart of this message is simple but sharp: the Christ you display publicly must match the Christ you embody privately. Jesus warned that some will say, “But didn’t I heal in Your name?” and He will answer, “Away from Me… I never knew you.” The danger isn’t in failing publicly — it’s in performing publicly while failing privately. Matthew 7:22–23
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The God Who Moves in Cycles (88)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
Family, if you live long enough, you learn something: Life does not move in a straight line. It moves in cycles — emotional cycles, spiritual cycles, generational cycles, historical cycles. Solomon looked at the world and said: “Generations come and generations go… the sun rises and the sun sets… the wind blows… the streams flow… what has been will be again.” (Ecclesiastes 1:4‑9) He wasn’t being cynical. He was being honest. He was telling us that life repeats itself — and if we don’t understand the cycles, we will misinterpret the seasons. Some of you are in...
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Worshipping God The Way You Are Wired - 87
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
Worshipping God the Way You Are Wired Scripture Focus: 1 Chronicles 16:4–7, Psalm 73 Introducing Asaph We often think worship only happens when we sing on Sunday mornings. But true worship is much larger than a musical style or a church service. It is a lifestyle of honoring God using exactly how He built you. In the Old Testament, King David established a massive worship operation for the Ark of the Covenant. He did not just hire random volunteers. He appointed a man named Asaph as the chief worship leader. Asaph was not just a singer; he was a leader, a writer, and a visionary. Like...
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“More Than You Can Handle” — The Truth Behind the Misquote - episode 86
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
The phrase “God won’t put more on you than you can handle” is not Scripture. It’s a comforting cliché, but it’s not a biblical promise. The Bible teaches something far more honest and far more hopeful: God meets you in the moments that exceed your strength. Most people are misquoting - 1 Corinthians 10:13 — but that verse is about temptation, not suffering. God provides a way of escape when you’re tempted.
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Ministering in Your Circle (85)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
“Your buddy needs your prayers. Your buddy needs your presence. Your buddy needs your faith. And God has placed you in their circle so His love can reach them through you.” ~kenn blanchard
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How Often Do You Thank God? (84)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
A message about gratitude, witness, and the courage to live your faith in the open. “Gratitude Has a Rhythm” Some people thank God like it’s a reaction. Some thank Him like it’s a routine. But the believer is called to thank Him like it’s a lifestyle. Thanksgiving is not what you do after God blesses you — it’s how you live because He already has.
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Through The Valley (83)
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
The power of Psalm 23:4 is not in the valley, not in the shadow, not in the fear — it is in the through. You are not stuck. You are not abandoned. You are not finished. You are walking through with a God who refuses to leave your side.
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The Loneliness of Good Men: A Message of Hope for the Man Who Feels Forgotten - 82
BroKen & Believing | Rev. Kenn Blanchard
Psalm 71:9 — “Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone.” "There is a loneliness that doesn't come because you've done anything wrong. It comes because you've lived long enough. The children have grown. Friends have moved away—or passed away. Retirement has changed your routine. The house is quieter. The phone rings less often. And somewhere along the way, a man who spent decades taking care of everyone else discovers that he is sitting alone with his thoughts. The hardest part is that good men rarely talk about it. They keep mowing the lawn....
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lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- ...that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
- ...he is a murderer there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- ...he disguises himself as an angel of light.
Matthew 4:1-11
1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
1 John 2:16, KJV: "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
The lust of the flesh is everything that appeals to carnal and physical appetite. Although natural body desires are not inherently evil (e.g., the need for food, drink, and sexual fulfillment), the devil can use these normal desires to enslave man (cf. 1 Corinthians 6:12). In this category of temptation, Satan uses internal lawful desires to produce illicit carnal passions (e.g., gluttony, fornication). The devil tried to tempt Jesus by the lust of the flesh when he urged him to turn stones into bread (Matthew 4:3).
The lust of the eyes is everything that appeals to the eye’s insatiable demands (Ecclesiastes 1:8). In this category of temptation, Satan uses external attraction (whether inherently good, as a desire for a house or a car, or inherently bad, as a desire for a neighbor’s wife) to produce covetousness. Eve (Genesis 3:6), and Achan (Joshua 7:21) succumbed to this type of sin when they coveted what was prohibited. The devil tried to tempt Jesus by the lust of the eyes when he “showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, ‘All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me’” (Matthew 4:8-9).
The pride of life is everything that appeals to haughtiness, arrogance, and pride. In this category of temptation, Satan uses contemplation of personal achievement (e.g., popularity, academic success) to produce an anarchical self-sufficient attitude. When a person falls prey to the pride of life, there is not longer a battle against the flesh; the wicked one has won the sensual and intellectual battle. The devil tried to tempt Jesus by the pride of life when he “took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple”, and urged Him to defy God (Matthew 4:5-7).
Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.
Read these:
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- Philippians 4:11-13
- Hebrews 13:5
- 1 Tim 6:7-8
- Psalms 107:9
- Psalms 90:14