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Shame, Forgiveness and Conflict
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- Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection · Resource
How God lifts the pain of worthlessness and rejection. - Unpacking Forgiveness: Biblical Answers for Complex Questions and Deep Wounds · Resource
What forgiveness means, and how to respond to the unrepentant. - The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict · Resource
Four steps for resolving conflict.
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Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection
337-page book on shame and how, through Jesus, the shamed are covered, adopted, cleansed and healed.
Unpacking Forgiveness: Biblical Answers for Complex Questions and Deep Wounds
240-page book on what biblical forgiveness means: pardoning the repentant and being reconciled, responding to unrepentant offenders and conquering bitterness.
The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict
Guide to resolving conflict in four steps: glorify God, get the log out of your own eye, gently restore, and go and be reconciled.
The Bruised Reed
An exposition of Isaiah 42:3 and Matthew 12:20, ‘a bruised reed he will not break’, on Christ’s tenderness toward the spiritually weak and discouraged, in 16 short chapters. Puritan Paperbacks edition, 160 pages; first published 1630.
Loss of Assurance
Tabletalk article (25 June 2016) on why Christians lose their sense of assurance (negligence, falling into sin, temptation, God withdrawing for their growth) and how it is recovered: by the same means it is first obtained, including confession and returning to God in repentance and faith, relying on Christ’s merit rather than oneself.
The Heart of Christ
A 136-page Puritan Paperbacks edition of Goodwin’s most popular book, on Hebrews 4:15 and Christ’s tender affection in heaven toward his people, both in their afflictions and in their sins.