What Does a Modern Day Good Samaritan Look Like?

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What Does a Modern Day Good Samaritan Look Like? By Dr. Emily Smith (Zondervan) Lots of us are familiar with Jesus' Good Samaritan story in the tenth chapter of Luke. It's about an injured man who needed help on the side of the road and how two people merely walked by him before a Samaritan man finally stopped to help. Tucked around this story like two pieces of bread around a cheese and turkey sandwich are two questions whose distinctions we can miss at first glance. They seem the same on the surface, but they're different in how they were asked and who asked them. First ... Continue Reading The Beginning of My Healing from Trauma By Anh Lin (Zondervan) I was rendered hopeless and helpless by the cyclical trauma I endured throughout my life. Even if I knew there were options to leave my miserable state of being, I couldn't bring myself to escape the trauma. I was so intimately familiar with my pain that the idea of anything different felt scarier than the pain itself. Have you ever felt that way? Perhaps you've only recently realized that something in your past was not okay ... Continue Reading The Path to Healing Starts with Confronting Hidden Problems By Jason VanRuler (Zondervan) Something I learned early on about remodeling a home is you have to fix even the stuff other people can't see. This fact became evident when I was faced with a gross basement wall in a house we were remodeling. The wall looked quite dirty. Normally a perfectionist, this time I reckoned that the best thing to do would be to slap some paint on it and call it good. So that's what I did. The dirty wall was now "clean." This method worked. For a while.... Continue Reading   - Looking for more? For more helpful articles, deal notices, and book samples, subscribe to one or more of the following email newsletters published by Zondervan Books: Faith in Action monthly newsletter Growth monthly newsletter Lives Transformed monthly newsletter Relationships monthly newsletter Boundaries weekly newsletter featuring content from Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries. - Follow Zondervan Books for more!  This email was sent to edwardlorilla1998.tower@blogger.com by Bible Gateway, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA. This email is part of a devotional or newsletter that you signed up for on BibleGateway.com. If you have questions or comments about this email, please contact us.   Manage all Bible Gateway subscriptions — Opt Out of all Bible Gateway communication -