The Chains of the Prodigal Brother
Authors book will dispel with the notion of God as religious slave-master
Learn How to Accept the Grace That God Offers in New Title
Authors book will dispel with the notion of God as religious slave-master
2010-07-30
LONGWOOD, FL-Why is it so difficult to receive God's forgiveness? Why is it so hard to truly embrace God's unmerited affection? Why do Christians so often fall back into performance-based religion? Why is it so challenging to trust God during the hard times in life? What does Genesis really mean by the "knowledge of good and evil," and how does it keep Christians from accepting God's grace? Why does the prayer posture of modern Christianity look like a slave cowering before a cruel master, while the prayer posture of early Christians looked like a little child waiting for his father to scoop him up in his arms? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Xulon Press author Brent Skilton's new release, The Chains of the Prodigal Brother: How We All Became Slaves, and How Jesus Came to Set Us Free ($18.99, paperback, 978-1-61579-625-0).
"Grace is one thing that separates Christianity from the world's religions, and if we misunderstand it, we misunderstand everything," the author says. "That is the point of this book, in fact: Humanity's chief problem isn't that we do bad things. Our chief problem is that, when God offers us His love freely, we find ourselves unable to accept it."
Skilton, a resident of Aurora, Illinois, wrote this book for people raised in law-based forms of Christianity who want to understand more about grace. It is his hope that, after reading this book, readers will cease to see God as a religious slave-master and instead be raised up in a relationship of freedom toward the Father.