Are you weary? Trying to follow Jesus and be a “good Christian,” only to hear the voice of shame whisper, try harder?
Good Christians are supposedly known for diligently practicing spiritual disciplines like Bible study, prayer, evangelism, and serving God. Disciplines that are expected, through inspired effort, to conquer sin in us and in the world. The tragedy is, so few Christians understand that we aren’t just sinful but wounded. We don’t need a list of disciplines. We need a Healer, a Deliverer to come and set us free.
Here is the truth: We have a Healer. His name is Jesus Christ. He loves us. His calls us first to own how desperate we are—for him; and then to accept his invitation to abide in his great love.
Kevin Butcher points us toward this healing Jesus, who offers us his all-encompassing love. You will find nothing here about lists and shoulds. Instead, you will discover how to fall in love with Jesus and then how to walk with him—not in drudgery, but freedom—abiding in his love. A love that rescues us from drudgery and shame, surrounding us with joy even in our darkest hour. A love so powerful that it births our worship, obedience, and willingness to surrender all to him.
Even when hell is at your doorstep, the love of Jesus will surround you, protect you, empower you, and set you free. Because God’s love isn’t just important to your journey—God’s love is everything.
I’ve met a lot of people who know a lot about Jesus. I don’t know nearly as many who truly know Jesus. Kevin Butcher is most definitely the latter. Through this book, allow him to be your gentle, experienced guide away from “just do it” Christianity and a life of shame and into the freeing, healing embrace of Jesus’ extravagant love.
Kevin Butcher has penned a winner on how we practically experience and live out what it means to abide in Christ and his incredible love for us. This is not a dry theology book or another how-to book filled with suggestions for trying harder and being more disciplined. Butcher, with incredible authenticity, soaks us in the love of God for us that ignites a divine reaction in our hearts. Reading this book will be a spiritual experience for you.
Kevin is a master storyteller who beautifully articulates the transformative power of God’s liberating covenant love. He helps move theology from the head to the heart and provides examples and pathways to genuinely live free.
If you’ve never sat down and had a conversation with Kevin Butcher, you’re about to. His deep love for God overflows and touches every person he meets, and that love flows through every word on the page. He’s a passionate and skillful storyteller, and through this book, he graces us with a deeper experience of God’s love. It’s a timely message for those of us who’ve grown weary on the road of faith. Kevin speaks as one who doesn’t just know about Jesus; he knows Jesus. And that is a gift to us all.
Defining a thing creates opportunities to see the thing through new lenses, strategize, and move accordingly. In this revelatory offering, Pastor Kevin unpacks the multilayered stronghold of shame while guiding us to the pathway to freedom. Free is an authentic, transparent conversation on the front porch with Kevin. It is heart-level communication from the Father, through Butcher, to his beloved. Free is an invitation to see, wrestle, and win. Each page creates space for the ah-has, tears, and screams necessary to move out of bondage and live FREE.
This book is for those searching for more than just help in their spiritual growth. It is a practical guide for followers of Jesus who desire to enter the amazing freedom offered us in Christ. Kevin clearly describes this freedom and provides practical help in its pursuit. He reminds us that this freedom is found in embracing the love of Jesus and continually abiding in his love. You’ll be helped and transformed as you read and apply what Kevin has explained for us all.
One of the great challenges of being a Christian is learning to live into the freedom that Jesus offers us. In theory, it is an easy concept to grasp, but it’s a difficult one to live out. Kevin Butcher so masterfully teaches us how we can take concrete steps toward that path. This book will leave you feeling inspired and empowered to break free from bondage as you fall into the loving arms of our Father.
There is love that sets you free from the need to perform, achieve, strive, and earn. Such unapologetic love is found in Jesus. In the pages of Free, the veil between author J. Kevin Butcher’s words and the love of Jesus is so thin; you will be overwhelmed, reader, by Butcher’s nurturing invitation into your own belovedness. In these pages, your soul will be nourished and compelled to love God, others, and yes, even yourself freely.
Too many of us are still trying too hard, still making too many commitments, and still starving on the same table scraps. Thank God for Kevin Butcher, who introduces us to a God who sets us free from religious performance by simply loving us.
Kevin Butcher understands better than anyone that Christians can drift from the love of Jesus into shaming religiosity. He writes about the love of Jesus so well that it’s hard to believe that he, too, was rescued from the prison of performance Christianity. I was there. It’s all true.
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