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Hope For Hurting Marriages!, July 18, 2011
This review is from: Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken: Finding Forgiveness and Restoration (Paperback)
For full disclosure, I'm Cindy (and Chris) Beall's pastor.
Even though I'm biased, this is an amazingly transparent and powerful book.
Cindy's gut-level honesty grips your heart from the first page and doesn't let go. She writes with brutal honesty about the pain of betrayal and the hope to heal.
As a pastor, I've worked with way too many couples trying to heal from adultery, sexual addictions, and broken promises. Cindy's wisdom, spiritual depth, and practical insights will help any couple that is desperate for healing. I've already given my copy away and will buy many more to give.
Not only do I love Cindy's writing style and spiritual content, but I love her family. It's been an honor to watch God do miracles in a marriage that could have easily ended. Cindy and Chris have demonstrated that while adultery may be grounds for divorce, it's also grounds for forgiveness and healing.
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Reading through tears, July 23, 2011
This review is from: Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken: Finding Forgiveness and Restoration (Paperback)
I thought I had ordered this book on my Kindle, but now I'm glad I accidentally ordered a hard copy, because I'm sure someday I'll need to pass it along to another hurting woman. It's an incredible resource to have!
A couple of years ago I had a serious illness and was homebound for 10 weeks. In God's providence I found the online ministry of LifeChurch.tv, Worshiping with those people online was the lifeline that gave me hope that God would heal me and deliver me from the Oxycodone addiction resulting from my pain. God did exactly that, but by the time I got back to my normal self, LifeChurch had become an important part of my life, so I stayed and become a volunteer chat host myself!
I must admit, I was shocked when I first heard that a LifeChurch pastor had fallen so hard in the past, and I was amazed to find out his wife had forgiven him and that he had even been restored to ministry! I had been wanting to hear the whole sotry, especially how Cindy had received the child from the adultery as a brother to their children. That's pretty mind-boggling, you must admit.
So many things about their story will stick with me: how humiliating it was for Cindy when they went to the Health Department to be tested for AIDS, the difficulty of walking into church and knowing that everyone knew their story, the awkwardness of explaining to their son why he had a brother who was not his mother's son, the courage of Craig Groschell and the LifeChurch community to stick with them through the restoration process, the provision of a couple to mentor them through it, etc.
I have read Beth Moore's "When Godly People Do Ungodly Things," and I can see how that study, as well as the story of King David, are applicable. I'm sure that Satan intended to "take out" Chris permanently, and it's to the glory of God and the God-enabled grace extended by His people that this did not happen.
This book is also helpful to me as I process grief from the hard things I have experienced, primarily the death of my beloved 3-year-old grandchild. Cindy gave the best treatment of grief I have ever read, making the book applicable to all of us who have experienced grief of any kind.
I stopped reading the book in order to write this, so now back to the story! I just had to take a break to say thank you, Cindy! To God be the glory, great things he has done!!
Kathy Hickey, Clarksville, Arkansas
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For more than those dealing with Infidelity...., July 18, 2011
This review is from: Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken: Finding Forgiveness and Restoration (Paperback)
Cindy and Chris' story is amazing.... Cindy tells where they started - where they crashed - where they are now... And through it all gives God the glory and hope for everyone else in the same situation. After reading, I kept turning this book over and over in my head and even though I havent been through the same situation, this book had a profound affect on me. She is so honest - more than I think I could be in her situation and in doing so, hope just shines through. Hope - which I can imagine is what is so desperately needed in the darkest of marital pits.
Read this book as a life line. Read this book for an amazing story. Read this book to see exactly what God can do. Just read this book.
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