Refusal to forgive is not resistance to healing; it is resistance to erasure. — Vera Hart The Violence of Forced Forgiveness. I'd like to unpack this a bit. Or rephrase it. I honour my innermost being when I refusal to comply with social pressure to forgive. It is true is that my enemy sinned against… Continue reading Resisting social pressure to perform forgiveness. The fine line.
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The unfaithful wife in Ezekiel 16 — applications and misapplications
Scripture sometimes uses marital imagery for the relation between God and his chosen people. The Hebrew bible depicts God as the husband of Jerusalem. And the New Testament calls Jesus the bridegroom of the bride, the bride being the ecclesia. When a wife trashes and desecrates the good things — physical, emotional and spiritual things… Continue reading The unfaithful wife in Ezekiel 16 — applications and misapplications
