December 11, 2008
Last Saturday evening Jennifer and I attended a 5th-8th talent show at the Lipscomb Campus School. It was almost three hours long, but had several excellent performances. However, it was long. About thirty minutes into the program, I began to feel uncomfortable. Something was gnawing at me. My insides were pushing me to run, to […]
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Pastoral Care, Personal, Spirituality | Tagged: Contemplation, Envy, Forgiveness, Forgiving God, Hurt, Meditation, Pain, Prayer, Resentment, Spirituality, Suffering |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
December 9, 2008
Forgiving God is a controversial topic among many believers, especially Christians. Jewish believers, however, have a long history of talking about “forgiving God,” and it is present in the classic story of Job as my last post suggested. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, for example, one of the most significant questions in Jewish theology […]
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Pastoral Care, Theology | Tagged: Bitterness, Forgiveness, Forgiving God, Pain, Praise, Rebellion, Suffering, Tragedy, Transformation, Woundedness |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks