The Hand She Could Not Lift
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, Germany, speaking about God's forgiveness to a crowd still hollowed out by war....
This is a contemporary on forgiveness and faith, drawing on Matthew 6:14-15.
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, Germany, speaking about God's forgiveness to a crowd still hollowed out by war. She had survived Ravensbrück concentration camp, where her sister Betsie had died on December 16, 1944. She had watched lice crawl across skeletal women. She had smelled death on the winter air of that place.…
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