Trapped: Getting Free from People, Patterns, and Problems

by Andy Farmer

Publisher:

New Growth Press

, 2016

Overview

We all know how it feels to be trapped. We feel trapped by things outside of us, where we live, our culture, the economy, and world events. But we also feel trapped by our background, upbringing, natural abilities, and our physical and emotional limits. As if that’s not enough, we can also feel trapped by wrong choices, destructive habits, bad luck, and difficult relationships. How can we find the freedom we crave?

Author Andy Farmer is convinced that there is a way to get free from any trap we face in life. Trapped takes one of the great themes of the gospel the truth that we’ve been ransomed to freedom in Christ and applies it to some of the most troubling, life-controlling issues we face. Farmer demonstrates compellingly that the gospel doesn’t just solve our sin problem with God, it actually gives us what we need to battle against the complex everyday struggles like laziness, addiction, or approval-seeking that keep us from experiencing freedom and peace.

We don't “get free” all in one moment, explains Farmer, but we learn to walk out freedom step by step even in the hardest parts of our lives as we come to know Christ. Trapped explores our “freedom to” and not just our “freedom from” showing how the gospel actually gives us the incredible freedom to deal with our problems in a life-giving way.

Through individual chapters on issues like laziness, fear of man, addictions, and escape through pornography or eating disorders Farmer models the intensely practical, everyday gospel application he promotes. Readers will catch his vision for living life beyond the traps that most of us have given up on escaping.

Key Features

• Shows how the gospel gives us the freedom to deal with problems in a life-giving way
• Teaches how to walk out freedom step by step even in the hardest parts of our lives
• Demonstrates that the gospel provides what we need to battle against the complex everyday struggles

Contents

• Real People in Real Traps
• Not as Free as We Want to Be
• The Big Trap and the Great Redemption
• Real Freedom
• The Approval Trap
• The Laziness Trap
• The Trap of Secret Escape
• The Addictions Trap
• Trapped in a Troubled Marriage
• Free in a World of Traps

Praise for Trapped

Porn, food, work, bad marriage, dashed dreams—we all know someone who feels trapped. Maybe that someone is you. With over two decades of proven counseling experience, Andy Farmer takes his unique gift for ‘simplifying-the-complex’ and escorts the reader from the trappings of bondage to the soul-satisfying vistas of freedom. If you or someone you care about needs liberation, fresh hope and practical help await between these pages!

—Dave Harvey, Executive Director of Sojourn Network; pastor of preaching at Four Oaks Church; CCEF Board member; founder of AmICalled.com

If you have ever been stuck, trapped, or cornered, then you know how hopeless it seems. You just do not know what to do. Andy Farmer wrote this book to help you experience the freedom found in a meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. I encourage you to read it and let Andy lead you again and again to Jesus Christ.

—Rob Green, Pastor of Counseling and SeminaryMinistries, Faith Church, Lafayette, IN

Trapped speaks to a universal problem—feeling trapped in relationships, circumstances, and life. As Christians, we boast of the freedom that we have in the gospel and yet we still feel trapped. None of us are as free as we want to be, and many of us don’t even understand what real freedom is. We live as if we must set ourselves free. Using five case studies of common traps, Andy Farmer carefully explains how to gain a freedom that we can’t earn or win, a freedom that is a gift from God.

—Jack Delk, Pastor for Counseling, North Campus at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, MN

Product Details

• Title: Trapped
• Author: Andy Farmer
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 192
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9781942572817, 1942572816
• Resource ID: LLS:TRAPPED
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-04T18:29:26Z

About Andy Farmer

Andy Farmer, MA, has served as a pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, for over twenty years. He also serves on the board of the Biblical Counseling Coalition and is the author of The Rich Single Life and Real Peace. He and his wife Jill live in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and have four children, including three married daughters and several grandchildren.