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January 2006

Forgiving God

When childhood tragedy creates a barrier to faith

When I was seventeen, my father, in yet another drunken binge, became so violent that he threatened me with a loaded gun. The next day my distraught mother, sisters, and I went to our pastor and asked him to open the church so we could go in and pray for a solution to our crazy and scary situation.

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