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The crowd chose Barabbas. So do you.
Every day, in ways you may not even recognize, you trade Christ for the rebel within. He is the proud, self-ruling, Truth-resisting voice that demands its own way and calls it freedom. Pastor Manny Rivera calls him by his real name: Barabbas.The murderer in the cell. The one Jesus died in place of. The one you keep setting free.
Killing Barabbas is not another safe devotional. It is a confrontation.
Drawing on thirty-six years of pastoral ministry, Manny Rivera asks the one question most Christians never face honestly: if Jesus already died in your place, why are you still living like the rebel?
In these pages, you will:
• Meet the Barabbas hiding inside every believer
• Confront the patterns of rebellion that quietly sabotage your walk with God
• Discover why the cross demands far more than gratitude
• Learn what daily death to self actually looks like in a distracted, self-focused world
• Step into the freedom that comes only when the rebel within is finally put to death
Through twenty-one chapters that move between vivid fictional scenes from Barabbas's prison cell and searing pastoral teaching, Killing Barabbas dismantles the comfortable Christianity of the modern Western Church and calls every reader to something deeper: a daily, costly transformation that does not just save you, but changes you.
If you are tired of shallow devotionals. If you are weary of knowing the gospel without feeling its full weight. If you are ready to stop choosing Barabbas and start letting Christ reign...
This book is for you.
The cross was not the end of Barabbas's story. It was the beginning of yours.
Every day, in ways you may not even recognize, you trade Christ for the rebel within. He is the proud, self-ruling, Truth-resisting voice that demands its own way and calls it freedom. Pastor Manny Rivera calls him by his real name: Barabbas.The murderer in the cell. The one Jesus died in place of. The one you keep setting free.
Killing Barabbas is not another safe devotional. It is a confrontation.
Drawing on thirty-six years of pastoral ministry, Manny Rivera asks the one question most Christians never face honestly: if Jesus already died in your place, why are you still living like the rebel?
In these pages, you will:
• Meet the Barabbas hiding inside every believer
• Confront the patterns of rebellion that quietly sabotage your walk with God
• Discover why the cross demands far more than gratitude
• Learn what daily death to self actually looks like in a distracted, self-focused world
• Step into the freedom that comes only when the rebel within is finally put to death
Through twenty-one chapters that move between vivid fictional scenes from Barabbas's prison cell and searing pastoral teaching, Killing Barabbas dismantles the comfortable Christianity of the modern Western Church and calls every reader to something deeper: a daily, costly transformation that does not just save you, but changes you.
If you are tired of shallow devotionals. If you are weary of knowing the gospel without feeling its full weight. If you are ready to stop choosing Barabbas and start letting Christ reign...
This book is for you.
The cross was not the end of Barabbas's story. It was the beginning of yours.