Unforgiveness is a prison mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The Issues Etcetera Book of the Month for January

will help you break out of the unforgiveness in your own life.

It's titled Unforg, How God's Foriveness

transforms our lives. This new book is published by Concordia Publishing

House. Their phone number 1-800 3 325, 3040, or learn more about unforgivable at issues ETC.org.

Unforgivable, how God's forgiveness transforms our lives, the issues, etc, Book of the Month. Can there be forgiveness when there has been abuse?

What if someone who's been a victim of abuse says, I don't think I can forgive that person.

In fact, I don't think I want to forgive that person.

How can Christ's forgiveness find its way into that situation? Welcome back to issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin.

It's time to conclude our three-part series on forgiveness and

unforgiveness today, discussing forgiveness and abuse.

Dr Mark Rockenbach joins us. He's Associate Professor of Practical Theology

at Concordia Seminary, co-author of the issues, etc. Book of the Month for January

Unforgivable How God's For transforms our lives.

Dr. Rockenbach, welcome.

Thank you.

You have researched overcoming unforgiveness.

What insights did you gain through that research?

Yeah, so as part of my doctor's dissertation and the like, I wanted to understand the experience

that people had with forgiving someone who had sent against them. the Interesting enough, the psychological counseling world has also been very interested in forgiveness

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