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Book Release: Forgiving Day by Day

Posted September 30, 2019 | Judith Ingram

Forgiving Day by Day: Practicing God’s Ways in Our Relationships can help the Christian take that next step with God into a new way of life, free from resentment and the bitter pain of past injuries. This twelve-week study offers daily devotionals drawn from Scripture that explore topics related to forgiveness, relationships, and discipleship. Essays, prayers, and reflective exercises provide opportunities to learn and practice new skills and underscore the importance of cultivating a personal relationship with God.

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Iscariot: A Novel of Judas

Posted January 28, 2019 | Judith Ingram

Iscariot is a fictional account of events that led to Judas Iscariot’s notorious betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent suicide. I chose the book because I was curious to learn what the author had to say about a famous figure of history whose personal story is nevertheless scanty and wide open to speculation. The story is told in first-person narrative, so it is easy to slip into the skin of Judas the child, the ambitious youth, the love-starved disciple, and ultimately the catalytic figure who made possible the arrest and trial of Jesus the Nazarene.

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Love Without Strings

Posted October 15, 2018 | Judith Ingram

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved.” —Thomas Merton

We don’t just want love; we need love. We were created to seek love as urgently as we seek food and oxygen. And sometimes we’ll do desperate things to get it.

Secular research explains our need to be loved as a primal instinct for self-preservation: Belonging to a group increases our chances of escaping hungry predators. From a spiritual perspective, our need for love motivates us to search for God and the fellowship with him that he imprinted on our souls. In both cases, finding love enhances our sense of well-being, whereas being denied love carries the subliminal threat of extinction.

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Book Review: Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers

Posted July 1, 2014 | Judith Ingram

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. —C. S. Lewis

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Leslie Leyland Fields’s book is a practical and compelling guide to surrendering our painful childhood wounds to the healing work of forgiveness. The author explores the biblical and emotional ramifications of forgiving hurtful parents by offering keen insights and examples from her own struggles to forgive a distant and rejecting father. Her journey can be summed up in the subtitle for her book: “Finding Freedom from Hurt and Hate.”

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Book Review: I Choose to Forgive

Posted April 22, 2014 | Judith Ingram

I Choose to Forgive: An Intimate Journey with God. By Dianne B. Collard. Forward by Rev. Greg Asimakoupoulos

The Collards were serving as missionaries in Vienna, Austria, when the phone call came, announcing that their eldest son had been murdered in Concord, California. Timothy Collard, age 23, had been shot at least three times in the back of the head and his body subsequently mutilated.

The newspapers smeared his reputation, but eventually the truth emerged, and the murder was determined to be a case of mistaken identity. The killer was convicted and sentenced to prison.

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