Abba Father: Discovering the Daddy-Father Heart of God

Some people can say "God" without flinching. It's the word "Father" that catches in the throat.If your earthly father was absent, or present but unreachable, or present and cruel, then the invitation to call God Father may feel less like good news and more like a wound reopened. You believe He is real. You believe He is holy. You are simply not sure He is good - not to you, not up close.In Abba Father, evangelist Dr. Johan Bruwer names that struggle honestly, because he lived it. Before he could trust God as Father, he had to face what he carried toward his own dad. Out of that reckoning comes the conviction at the heart of this book: we do not have a faith problem. We have a trust problem.Walking through the parable of the prodigal son, Dr. Bruwer begins where the son began - not at the father's gate, but in the pigpen, where Scripture says he came to himself. You cannot run to a Father you don't know you need. From there, the book opens the Father's heart through six movements: F - Forgiveness that runs down the road to meet you A - Available, a Father who was watching the horizon the whole time T - Thankful, the posture that grows where grace lands H - Happy, the joy of a Father who throws a feast over one returning child E - Embrace, arms around the one still rehearsing his apology R - Reinstate, the robe, the ring, and the sandals of a restored sonThis is not a book about trying harder to feel close to God. It is a book about a Father who has already come out to where you are.Come home. He has been watching the road.