In Choose and Choose Again, the reader will encounter story after story of different people, most of whom are from Hope Community Church of Detroit, where Pastor Butcher has been sharing the healing love of God for thirteen years. They represent men and women, African American, Caucasian, Latino, and Asian, urban and suburban, professional types and prostitutes, clergy and addicts, drunks and lawyers and convicts—wounded human beings who have found themselves empty, dying, and longing to be filled.

The stories are not only about their own healing and restoration but also about how the love of God heals. Butcher hopes that readers will find before them a path of healing that they feel compelled to embrace. He begins with his own story of emptiness and despair, and his journey to healing, but the ultimate power of his message is that this healing journey is for anyone who is willing to own his or her emptiness and hold one’s heart out to God, who is desperately longing to love each person all the way home.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Death Without Love
 1: The Power of Love
 2: The Emptiness Inside
 3: Just a Kid
 4: Let Me Believe It for You
 5: Cry
 6: Shame
 7: Call Me Abba
 8: Good Church
 9: Forgiven
 10: Deeper than Feelings
 11: Stronger than Hate
 12: Like a Child
 13: Free and Forever
 14: Coming Home

Endorsements

Powerful. Beautiful. Compelling! I’m so thankful that
Kevin wrote this book. Read it too. It will help you to
choose and to offer the love of God.
---STASI ELDREDGE, Author of Captivating and Becoming Myself

In Choose and Choose Again, Kevin Butcher paints moving
portraits of brokenness and healing. Kevin draws upon his
own journey from despair to hope and faithfully recounts
how the love of God has resurrected others. Choose and
Choose Again is about life-and-death struggle to truly know
that we are loved. Savor these stories, and taste of the deep
love the Father has for you.
---JEFF MANION, Senior pastor at Ada Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
author of The Land Between and Satisfied

This book is beautiful. A truly authentic and powerful
revelation of the deepest hunger of our heart met by the
strongest force in the universe—love. May you read it and
weep, and then have the courage to choose it for yourself.
---DANIELLE STRICKLAND, Speaker, advocate, and author