2009-09-16T11:54:59-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/victim http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/victim-is-not-your-middle-name-8261 2009-09-16T11:54:59-05:00 Cindy called all the way from Alaska last night to ask for prayer. She has (called) a number of times (to ask for prayer), but this call brought some painful news. Cindy was the victim of a terrible sexual assault. Thankfully, she’s getting the appropriate counseling, but she, of course, really needs prayer. And as I prayed for her on the phone, I found myself praying this way: “Lord, help Cindy to never let this experience define who she is. ‘Rape victim’ is something awful that happened to her, Lord, but it’s not who she is.” http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/how-to-get-justice-when-youve-been-hurt-9177 2009-02-05T13:42:48-05:00 I’ve seen on the news…we’ve all seen way too many times, stunned and sobbing students, holding each other tightly, trying to cope with the unthinkable that just happened—another campus shooting. This one was the largest mass shooting in U. S. history—Virginia Tech, remember, 32 people killed. One was 19-year-old Mary Read, and on the day of her funeral, her father found her little red notebook, and he read her final entry at the funeral. She said, “When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.” http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/The-Same-Old-Baggage-5610 2008-07-21T11:47:20-05:00 Why does Jesus ask us if we want to get well? Because sometimes we're afraid to change. We've gotten used to playing the victim role, the loser role. We've settled into an identity that revolves around that same old baggage. Notice the man didn't just say "Yes." He responded with a nobody cares complaint. He's gotten used to being the guy with the problem, he was stuck in his victim identity, but Jesus acts miraculously and that man walks away carrying what had been carrying him for years. http://faithfacts.org/search-for-truth/questions-of-christians/how-can-a-loving-god-order-people-killed 2008-04-27T15:54:00-05:00 In the Old Testament, God commanded the Israelites coming out of Egypt to take over the land of Canaan and kill all of the inhabitants. Shocking? Capricious? Justice? Take a closer look at the context and decide for yourself. http://bgcprisonministries.com/index.php?id=20 2008-02-05T11:17:26-05:00 The mission of VORP is to bring restorative justice reform to our criminal and juvenile justice systems, to empower victims, offenders and communities to heal the effects of crime, to curb recidivism and to offer our society a more effective and humanistic alternative to the growing outcry for more