Here’s what the Desiring God author said, translated from “Screwtape-ese” to normal talk: [God’s] virtue of compassion attempts to suffer with the hurting while maintaining an allegiance to [God]. I think, actually, he’s talking there about “sympathy.” Sympathy is being moved by so...
Basically there’s a voice from my teen years telling me I’m worthless and sinful, and there’s nothing in me that I (or God) should love. I know that’s wrong, but I don’t know WHY it’s wrong. I’m writing to you because you’re good at untwisting scriptures and I respect...
She began to admire and respect how the church that had excommunicated her had acted consistently with their convictions, remaining “steadfast to the biblical standard” (of what, she does not say),staying “faithful to God” by excommunicating her. She prayed her first prayer in five years,...