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Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Tucked into Abraham's biography is the story of Hagar, a young Egyptian slave with whom Abraham had a son named Ishmael. Hagar stood out because she was wounded--not physically, but in ways that were as emotionally and spiritually painful as any injury to a body would be. Some wounds were provoked by her own bad behavior, but others were inflicted by those who considered themselves God's people. ...

painful experiences I will share with you in this book. A complicating factor for those of us who have been wounded by the behavior of Christians such as these is that we often suffer in silence. Which makes me wonder … are you one of us? Are you like the dear woman who suffered in silence and expressed her wounding in a letter to me: I can’t tell you how many times I have cried deep tears that shook my whole body because of painful things that happened to me in my church… . I was so hurt I stopped