Spiritual Growth Love

What is life? What are we here for? What is truly important? What will bring authentic satisfaction and lasting happiness? We all ask these questions, and we all have a right to come to our own conclusions. In this follow-up to his New York Times and USA Today bestseller Jesus Is ____, Judah completes this sentence as to what “life is,” revealing how it is to be loved and to love, to enjoy God to the fullest, to trust God in every moment, and to be at peace with God, others, and ourselves.

Jesus commands us to love our neighbors. So why are so many Christians taught to fear their neighbors? The American church is known as a people who are afraid, who have been nurtured through fear into hatred, and who have moved from hatred to violence - or at least to neglect. This fear, too often lived out boldly in the name of Jesus, is a false religion.

Which year of your life was the most impactful so far? One year of my life, God spoke to me in a way I would never experience again. The things I heard and see manifest would forever change my life.

To the world around us, this kind of unconditional love makes little sense. The world is really good at loving some people, sometimes. Most of us are. But what about loving people who don't talk like us, think like us, vote like us, or see the world like we do? In this five-session audio Bible study, Bob points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible—to love everybody the way Jesus loved them—without fear, insecurity, or reservations.

We are going to look at five specific ways that Jesus instructs his followers to love and your challenge is to try it out, to put it into practice and see hat happens. Each challenge asks you to break through a barrier common in most people's lives with an uncommon act of love. Through the journey, you will see what happens within the people you love and what happens within you.

Do you feel like you are struggling with getting to sleep, or even confidence and growth? Are you going through life on autopilot? You're not alone. Millions of people live their lives passively, struggling to get good sleep, and find the confidence to do so. Practice gratitude and more. You can start to change your life with just five, ten, or fifteen minutes at night - less than the time it takes to watch an episode on Netflix. By choosing to find the time to focus on your well-being, you are making a decision which not only benefits you, but also helps those you love.

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. Kevin Butcher points us toward this healing Jesus, who offers us his all-encompassing love.