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1.Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (New York: Penguin, 2014), 54–55.
2.The imagery of the blood of Jesus covering sins is significant and deeply rooted in the Old Testament practice of providing an offering for the atonement of sin (Leviticus 1:4–5; 17:11). In the Old Testament an animal would be sacrificed and the blood spilled; but in time another sacrifice was needed and more blood spilled. However, in Christ we have what C. S. Lewis referred to as the “great exchange.” Jesus is the final and ultimate sacrifice, and His blood is sufficient to cover all our sins. So, now when God sees the believer He no longer sees our sins but He sees us clothed in Christ (Galatians 3:27), because of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross for the atonement of our sins (Hebrews 9:12).
1.Lysa TerKeurst, It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2018), 62.
2.J. H. Merle D’Aubigné, History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in Germany, Switzerland, etc., trans. H. White, vol. 4 (New York: RobertCarter, 1846), 183.
1.Kat Eschner, “The Story of the Real Canary in the Coal Mine,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 30, 2016, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/.
1.Augustine of Hippo, “A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants,” in Saint Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Peter Holmes, vol. 5, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1887), 53.
2.Walter Grundmann, “Δύναμαι, Δυνατός, Δυνατέω, Ἀδύνατος, Ἀδυνατέω, Δύναμις, Δυνάστης, Δυναμόω, Ἐνδυναμόω,” ed. Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Gerhard Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964–), 284.
1.Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, s.v. “hope,” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hope.
2.Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “Googling for God,” New York Times, September 19, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/seth-stephens-davidowitz-googling-for-god.html.
3.C. H. Spurgeon, “Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 24 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1878), 614.
1.C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 205.
1.Audrey Gordon, “A Psychological Interpretation of the Laws of Mourning,” My Jewish Learning, https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/a-psychological-interpretation-of-the-laws-of-mourning/.
1.Geerhardus Vos, “Peace,” ed. James Hastings, Dictionary of the Apostolic Church, 2 vols., (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916–1918), 159.
1.Charles Spurgeon, “Divine Forgiveness Admired and Imitated: A Sermon Delivered on the Lord’s Day Morning, May 17th, 1885 by C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington,” no. 1841, section II, in The Complete Works of Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816–1876 (Ft. Collins, CO: Delmarva Publications, 2013).
1.J. I. Packer, Growing in Christ (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1994), 193.
2.Darlene Lancer, “Symptoms of Codependency,” Psych Central website, October 8, 2018, https://psychcentral.com/lib/symptoms-of-codepndency.
3.Lancer, “Symptoms of Codependency.”
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6.Glenn Affleck, Howard Tennen, Sydney Croog, and Sol Levine, “Causal Attribution, Perceived Benefits, and Morbidity After a Heart Attack: An 8-Year Study,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 55 (1): 29–35, doi:10.1037/0022-006X.55.1.29. PMID 3571655.
1.Blake Griffin Edwards, “Secret Dynamics of Emotional, Sexual, and Physical Abuse,” Psychology Today, February 23, 2019, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/progress-notes/201902/secret-dynamics-emotional-sexual-and-physical-abuse.