What If Justice Never Comes?
03/14/25 • 37 min
Philip Todd, Chief Economist for the US Senate Homeland Security Committe, shares his extraordinary journey of faith and forgiveness after surviving a brutal, unprovoked knife attack in Washington DC two years ago. Despite life-threatening injuries and his attacker still awaiting trial due to mental health issues, Philip shares how this experience changed his vew of justice and what are his hopes for his attacker.
• Forgiveness as a deliberate choice prompted by the Holy Spirit rather than an emotional response
• The tension between personal forgiveness and societal justice
• How rejecting victimhood contributed to physical and emotional healing
• Wrestling with public pressure to politicize personal trauma in a politically charged environment
• The complexity of justice when mental health issues are involved
• The church's responsibility to be involved in both justice and rehabilitation
• Finding purpose and meaning through suffering
• The importance of wrestling with God during seasons of injustice
Join Philip Todd at the Greater Purpose Conference on April 11th in Branson, Missouri at Thousand Hills Resort where he'll share more details about his journey. For more information or to register, visit rfwma.org.
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Philip Todd, Chief Economist for the US Senate Homeland Security Committe, shares his extraordinary journey of faith and forgiveness after surviving a brutal, unprovoked knife attack in Washington DC two years ago. Despite life-threatening injuries and his attacker still awaiting trial due to mental health issues, Philip shares how this experience changed his vew of justice and what are his hopes for his attacker.
• Forgiveness as a deliberate choice prompted by the Holy Spirit rather than an emotional response
• The tension between personal forgiveness and societal justice
• How rejecting victimhood contributed to physical and emotional healing
• Wrestling with public pressure to politicize personal trauma in a politically charged environment
• The complexity of justice when mental health issues are involved
• The church's responsibility to be involved in both justice and rehabilitation
• Finding purpose and meaning through suffering
• The importance of wrestling with God during seasons of injustice
Join Philip Todd at the Greater Purpose Conference on April 11th in Branson, Missouri at Thousand Hills Resort where he'll share more details about his journey. For more information or to register, visit rfwma.org.
Thanks for listening! Visit our website rfwma.org and follow us on Facebook :https://www.facebook.com/limitlessspiritpodcast/
and Instagram: @limitlessspiritpodcast
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