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Revolting Beauty
In this sermon clip, Greg shares the story of how foster parents entered into the pain of a severely abused child and demonstrated compassion rather than judgment when she displayed puzzling and revolting behaviors. This moving story illustrates the way that God enters into our sin and our curse on the cross, and gives us a glimpse of what might be going on in some of the violent divine portraits we find in the Old Testament.
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