This book is about a journey of finding my heavenly father and the transformational power of that experience. At the age of seventeen, I watched my father's casket being lowered into the ground. I was devastated by the thought that I no longer had a father. After a year of destructive indulgence trying to numb my grief and anger, I became a follower of Jesus. I loved Jesus and I loved the intimate work of the Holy Spirit. My theology was right about loving God as father, but I figured that he was probably as demanding and disapproving as my natural father had been. After thirty years in ministry leadership, I experienced God's love as a father. In a moment, I felt his love pour into my heart and his arms embrace me like the father in Jesus' parable who embraced the returning son.

Take the journey from alienation to acceptance, from condemnation to the embrace of the Father's love.

You'll find one person's journey culminating in a life-transforming experience of an encounter of the Father's love. Jesus' story of the prodigal son comes alive and is complemented by a wealth of Biblical insight.

The purpose of this book is to bring you to a deeper experience of God's healing love.

After 30 years in ministry leadership, Jim Pennington experienced a life-transforming encounter with the Father's love. Since then, Jim has led others to experience the Father's healing love in over 30 nations, including extensive ministry with the persecuted church. Jim and his wife, Nancy, are founders of Firefall International (www.firefallinternational.org) whose mission is to transform nations through compassionate partnership. They have invested their lives in making spiritual sons and daughters who make sons and daughters.