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  1. Dawn
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Wounded by God's People
    July 24, 2014
    Dawn
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Anne Graham Lotz takes us on a journey through her own hurts at the hands of God's people. She shares that healing and forgiveness in the arms of God. Prior to reading this book, it had never crossed my mind that one of the most reknowned evangelists of our day and his family had endured deep wounds from the fiery darts of the church. The reality is that the evil inside the church can be just as much an equal opportunity employer as the world outside the church.

    Ms. Lotz uses the Biblical example of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar to guide the reader on the journey. Prior to reading this book, if someone mentioned Abraham my thoughts would go to his being the Father of the God's Chosen People or to his remarkable faith when God asked him to go up the mount to sacrifice Isaac. I must admit that I had never seen Abraham as a man that did the wounding. In my mind, he led people to faith rather than being a stumbling block to one's faith. However, when we take a moment to look at the situation through the eyes of Hagar, we see a wounder of the heart rather than a man after God's own heart.

    Mrs. Lotz does not leave us in the pain, but shows how God can faithfully bring healing, forgiveness, and restoration. She demonstrates how whether the wounds come at the hands of the world or God's people that His grace is sufficient to heal.

  2. Richard Penn
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Healing Church-Inflicted Wounds
    June 15, 2016
    Richard Penn
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    We might expect Billy Grahams daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, to be an evangelical princess floating above the wounds that Christians too often give each other. But real and phony Christians have severelysometimes intentionallywounded this wife of 47 years, mom, speaker, bestselling author, and founder and president of AnGeL Ministries.

    Gods people wounded her the most: betrayal, slander, meanness, rudeness, ostracism and returning evil for goodsometimes gift-wrapped with religion. Church people too often shoot wounded Christians instead of listening to, accepting, praying for, humbly serving and loving them. The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit (Proverbs 15:4).

    Around 1985, Lotzs Southern Baptist church gave her 500-woman Bible Fellowship class the left foot of fellowship and applauded in its Sunday morning service that it had voted her long-serving husband out of leadership. Both got dishonored and railroaded for upholding Scriptural inspirationa point of contention then in Southern Baptist churches.

    Her other problems and stressors have included miscarriage, hurricanes, her husbands dental clinic burning down, all three of their children marrying within eight months, their son getting cancer and divorcing, her parents health battles, her moms deathplus in her extended familyadultery, rape, drunkenness and drug addiction.

    She confesses to provoking some of her wounds and even sometimes recycling them: Hurting people hurt people they nurse their pain, anger, bitterness, frustration, unforgiveness or resentment until they are enslaved. Pent-up anger can explode in blind volcanic rage targeting a nearby innocent person. Pain, guilt, grief and shattered relationships moved Lotz to tell her story.

    She illustrates with Hagar whom Gods people wounded (Genesis 16:21). Hagar loved, respected, trusted and felt safe with Abraham and his barren wife Sarah, who exploited her humble, vulnerable, dependent servant as a surrogate mom. When pregnant with Ishmael, Hagar despised her barren mistress, who harshly retaliated.

    Later Elkanahs first wife similarly ridiculed his barren wife Hannah, who responded by earnestly praying to God (1 Samuel 1-2).

    Lotz writes: Unfortunately, pity parties never result in authentic benefit they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. Why habitually scrape off scabs? Sometimes it feels good to hurt bad. I can take a wicked pleasure in rehashing what others have said or done to inflict the wound, each time reaffirming my own innocence and giving in to self-pity. To recover she advises:

    Admit your pain: Stop covering it up, rationalizing it, defending it, excusing it, ignoring it.

    Dont see misguided human rejection as from God. Abused, dejected believers must run to, not from, God.

    Dont submit to revenge, resentment, fear or anger. Let nothing harden your heart. Refocus from bitterness and look to our loving Lord for healing and perfect peace. Bitterness is like drinking poison, hoping the other person gets sick.

    Stop feeling entitled to hold on to your wounds. After escaping this quicksand, you can move forward.

    Pray out your pain. God puts wounds in perspective and salves stings: He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds (Psalm 147:3).

    Seek insight and solace in Gods Word.

    Carefully think without rationalizing your blind spots. Might your wounding come at least partly from your wounding others? We are skilled at absolving ourselves while seeing others faults.

    Humbly repent of any sin and ask forgiveness of God and others.

    When appropriate, with Gods wisdom and love, as privately as possible, correct people in sineven when it hurts both you and them.

    Reach out in reconciling love as Jesus on the cross ministered to hurting peoplethe repenting criminal, Maryand even us.

    Realize that a sovereign God uses our brokenness for His glory and our growth in spirit and ability to help others.

    A Puritan expresses Lotzs heart: Quarry me deep, dear Lord, and then fill me to overflowing with living water.

    First Peter 2:23 says of Jesus, When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
  3. DJ
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: Female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God's Love Heals Our Hearts
    December 31, 2014
    DJ
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: Female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    This book by Anne Graham Lotz gave great insight on being wounded and being a wounder, which allows one to put their hurt, something we all experience, in proper perspective so that we are not bound by our hurts and we can more easily glorify God despite our hurts. If you are open to it, God can use this book to change your perspective on your wounds, allowing you to separate your hurts from the one who hurt you so that you may still love regardless of how hurt you have been.
  4. MaryE
    Kokomo, Indiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Wounded by God's People: Discovering How God's Love Heals Our Hearts
    February 23, 2015
    MaryE
    Kokomo, Indiana
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Thank you so very much for your vulnerability in this book, Anne. The book would have still been good had you not admitted that you yourself have "been there, done that", but reading it would have been like reading a textbook on woundedness in the body. Because you came through the experience an even stronger believer, I can, too!
  5. Judy Dalton
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Wounded by God's People
    January 31, 2015
    Judy Dalton
    Good book for "Christians" to read. Very Helpful. Loved the illustration on trying to go forward while looking in the rearview mirror.
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