Beauty for Ashes
In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus quoted Isaiah 61 and told His listeners, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair” (Isaiah 61:1-3).
Everyone who ministers in Jesus’s name is a minister of healing hope in the midst of traumatic suffering and abuse.
For the past several decades, I have focused on just such a ministry. Today, I’m collating some of my writings into this one document on 48 Resources on Healing from Sexual Abuse, Domestic Abuse, and Spiritual Abuse.
6 Resources on Healing from Sexual Abuse
Resource #1: 11 Biblical Counseling Resources on Sexual Abuse: Healing and Hope in Christ
As the title suggests, in this resource I collate, link to, and
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