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How Your Brokenness Can Be Useful

May 18, 2026

Summary

We often resist the very trials meant to refine our jagged edges. In Jonah 2, the belly of a beast becomes the birthplace of a new man. In this message, Pastor Philip Miller reveals how the Lord makes us supremely useful for His kingdom. What if crushing was the only way a coal can ever become a diamond? 

This is part one of the sermon, “Grace Beneath the Waves.”

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