'For years my spiritual life was like a roller coaster, up and down, with far more downs than ups. I experienced more anxiety than peace, more fear than faith, more emptiness than fullness, and more failure than success. For all practical purposes my newbirth experience had not set me free.' 'Eventually it dawned on me that I was in bondage: I was a prisoner. The reality of my situation pushed me to the brink of despair. I lived with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and helplessness.' 'With a deep longing in my heart, I began to search the Scriptures with one objective -- to know the joy of real freedom in Christ. Jesus unlocked the door to my prison with six simple words -- 'The truth will set you free.'' In A Touch of His Freedom Dr. Charles Stanley applies this powerful principle he discovered in John 8:32 to thirty-one areas of life that have potential to enslave you. The thirty-one meditations, one for each day of the month, touch on freedom from -fear - guilt - ingratitude - conceit - legalism - resentment Through clear illustrations and pointed application Dr. Stanley guides you to the specific truths that serve as the gateway to freedom. A Touch of His Freedom will be a prized addition to the book collections of devotional readers and to those who look to God's Word for answers to their problems.
Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.
However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.
Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.
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