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As heart-rending as it is, however, we all benefit from this conflicted situation. Over and over, Scripture speaks of Israel going after other gods as if it were marital unfaithfulness As you know, it is my conviction that whether wives are actually more delicate is a matter this Scripture the passage reveals not merely what God expects of husbands but of everyone, regardless of gender or marital Bruce points out that the Mary in Romans 16:6 (see above) is yet another Mary referred to in the Bible

I presume that most car trips that end up inflicting pain or death would have been uneventful had the Conflicting results from research into the benefits/dangers of common foods confirm that, without divine I mentioned in a previous webpage my conviction that lowering one’s eyes is depressing. Nevertheless, just as it would be a pity to turn marital intimacy into a grim duty, so it would be to

Tragically, Christians with the highest of motives are often blissfully unaware of the needless pain they inflict She lamented that such help was unlikely because her marital status caused wives to see her as a potential

It is hard to resist the powerfully persuasive logic that says God gave us sex for marital union and had in their ignorance done little but inflict pain.   realizing what is happening, our minds twist our reading of Scripture to confirm our own prejudices, convictions undeserved privilege of being used of God to assist others in reaching their own, divinely-inspired convictions

We have seen that such love sets off powerful, conflicting emotions – a yearning to possess you and do loves every other human on this planet in no way dilutes his devotion to you, but it adds even more conflict

Forgiving our enemies walks hand in hand with healing from the inner wounds those enemies inflicted. willing to go through in order to be able to “live happily ever after” [about fifty years, max] in marital sex abuse she had suffered from her neighbor as a child and all the deeply scarring parental abuse inflicted I said all the decades of beastly cruelty inflicted on her would end up strengthening her and deepening

It means you want God to convict him, not so that you can get revenge, but so that he can obtain God’ When you simply cannot forgive Given the immense suffering inflicted on you, it is hardly surprising

Another clue is occasionally having two conflicting emotions; perhaps, for example, feeling happy and Alters have two pressing, but conflicting, needs. trustworthy, understanding counselor or friend who they think might accept them, the balance between these conflicting With many of his alters thinking themselves to be little children – far too young for marital relations

Yet he saw the human component of his conflict as inconsequential.

Vast numbers of abuse survivors know from bitter experience that pleasure inflicted by a sexual predator If predators are sufficiently skilled, the pleasure they inflict will be sexual. This very pleasure inflicts horrific, but quite unnecessary, pangs of guilt.

People We must love other people, but if ever there is a conflict of loyalties between God and

Indeed, he alone has never sinned: John 8:46 Which of you convicts me of sin?