What if the parts of you that feel most broken are exactly where God meets you?

In this episode, Pastor Austin Lacombe opens the series Fractures with a look at Matthew 5 and the Beatitudes — the list Jesus gives of who is "blessed." Spoiler: it's not the confident, the qualified, or the put-together. It's the poor in spirit, the mourning, the hungry, the persecuted.

Austin traces this theme through Moses' "who am I?" moment at the burning bush, Mary Magdalene's tears outside the empty tomb, the Samaritan woman's honest testimony at the well, and Stephen's faithfulness even to death — showing that Jesus never asks us to resolve our fractures before he calls us blessed inside of them.

A gentle, honest word for anyone who feels like they have to hide the cracks before they can be used.