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How to Be Free from Bitterness: And Other Essays on Christian Relationships is unavailable, but you can change that!

Bitterness often grows out of a small offense—perhaps a passing word, an accidental shove, or a pair of dirty socks left in the middle of the living room floor. Yet when bitterness takes root in our hearts, its effects are anything but small. In this collection of short articles, Jim Wilson and others discuss what it means to live as “imitators of God.” As the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians, we...

of missing the grace of God. When you allow it, bitterness comes up and defiles many people. It makes many people filthy. What happens to a person if he keeps bitterness on the inside for many years? What happens to him physically? Can he get physically sick? Suppose it is bitterness toward some member of the family. He’s kept it inside; he has not shared it. He has not defiled many people—he has kept it down inside. When he keeps it inside for some years, he finally begins to hurt. He goes to the
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