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Kill the Spider: Getting Rid of What’s Really Holding You Back Paperback – October 3, 2017
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Carlos Whittaker equips you with the practical steps you need to destroy the roots of your deep-seated habits so you can embrace true freedom in Christ. Because you can't just clear away the cobwebs; you need to find the spider--the source of the issue--and take it out.
Are you tired of trying to live for Christ--only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to do better, yet fail to progress?
As an author, speaker, podcaster, and communicator for our time, Carlos has lived much of his spiritual life in the spotlight. But, like any Christian, his faith story has its ups and downs. He spent decades trying to figure out how to be a "better person." Time and time again, he strived for holiness only to get caught in the web of destructive habits, behaviors, and thought patterns. But the buck stops here. Or, rather, the spider is killed here.
In Kill the Spider, Carlos shares personal material ranging from hilarious, self-deprecating stories to passion-filled wisdom--to show others it's not enough to try to "stop sinning." He teaches that knocking out deep-rooted habits and issues comes by treating the issue, not just the symptoms.
Carlos offers a breath of fresh air to any believer looking to finally step into the freedom in Christ. So, sit down. Open the book. And grab a shoe. We're going on a spider hunt.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherZondervan
- Publication dateOctober 3, 2017
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.58 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100274828421
- ISBN-13978-0310338000
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- ASIN : 031033800X
- Publisher : Zondervan (October 3, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0274828421
- ISBN-13 : 978-0310338000
- Item Weight : 7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.58 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #199,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,351 in Christian Inspirational
- #2,720 in Christian Personal Growth
- #5,260 in Christian Spiritual Growth (Books)
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Carlos Whittaker is bringing hope to humans all over the
world. And he’s pretty good at it: he’s an author, podcaster, and global speaker backed by the power of a massive Instafamilia, his enthusiastic social followers who tune in daily to join forces with Carlos to find connection, do good, and be in community.
When Carlos enters a room, he makes people feel seen. His superpower is creating spaces—online and in-person—where people are safe to engage in conversation about the topics that matter most but are often avoided. His motto: don’t stand on issues, walk with people.
That’s the professional stuff—but all day every day, Carlos is a family man. He and his wife Heather live in Nashville, Tennessee, with their three amazing children, where you can find them working on the family farm, planning trips around the world, and dancing to Single Ladies (seriously, Google it).
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I have followed Carlos Whittaker loosely many years, only kind of kept up via Instagram etc. I did not want to read his book (heck I HATE spiders and he put the word in the title!!) and we have some differing opinions on certain things, but on a whole enjoyed past messages. As I was searching Amazon for books to read, the Lord kept bringing this book to mind. I actually could not remember the title, only that it has the word "spider" in it. (Carlos, do you know what scary pictures come up when you search "spiders" on Amazon!! So you have to know the Lord was leading me to this book). Remember I said I had in the past already decided I did not want to read it; I thought it would be another book from an "Internet" Pastor/Musician that tells us how great his life is and how you can be great too.
I was wrong. Soo wrong....
This book grabbed me and I could not put it down. I am still processing and unpacking things mentally/spiritually. I personally would never go to an OnSite 7-day retreat, but I am thankful for Los sharing his experience and journey. My word for 2018 is Wisdom and maybe this is why it was a great book to ring in the new year, may the Lord lead me in wisdom as I clear the cobwebs to find the spiders.
Carlos talks about cleaning cobwebs in our life, "Cobwebs aren't necessarily major moral failings or criminal activity, just something that keeps you in turmoil and distanced from God." But that is not enough, you need to do some cobweb cleaning so you can find the spider to kill. You have to kill the spider, the producer of all the cobwebs.
Carlos explanation on anxiety and depression was spot on for me. He put into words what I could never articulate. I want to copy that paragraph and say ---> this...this puts into words what depression and anxiety feel like for me when I am going through it.
A favorite quote: "Trials reveal foundations; they aren't the ideal time to build them."
This was a great book to read at the beginning of 2018.
Reader, if this is close to your situation, read this book. It is a hand-up. It is a message from the Holy Spirit that all is not lost for you. It is funny and impactful, filled with agonizing truth.
Sad and self-loathing as you may be, take heart from Carlos Whittaker. Whittaker's writing energy, his truthfulness, his willingness to expose his male weaknesses, his expressed longing for the love and forgiveness of his wife, and the specific tasks that he enjoins of you may give you a first step back to where you are meant to be. Where you are meant to be is where Whittaker shows you how to be - where your life and love is not futile, your failures are not fatal, and your death is not final - and where you and your wife can return to being at play together in the fields of the Lord.
I'm trying to do what feels impossible and follow through on a goal I've set for myself, a New Year's Resolution in the summertime. A writer and podcaster that I love listening to, Annie F Downs, says she doesn't do resolutions because she doesn't stick to them but rather, calls them experiments because that sounds more fun. And it sounds way more fun to me - so I'm doing that. I'm started with Carlos Whittaker's "Kill the Spider" that is addressing how spiritual transformation typically only deals with the removal of our cobwebs, that which can be easily seen as surface level rather than killing the spider, that is at the root of our issues. I am tired and worn out from swatting at the cobwebs- the enemy designed it this way for me to get burnout and complacent that I could never fully experience freedom from my spiders.
This book has led me into some seriously difficult mental and spiritual places and I feel like I've gone ten rounds with the heavy-weight champion. But my God wins. He has taken me by the hand and slowly revealed each cobweb's root and brought the spider to all eight of it's knees for me to decide to kill it or believe it, and He promises to make it stay dead by the power of his resurrection.
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I'm actually looking forward to his next book - I think Carlos is ready to go deeper with people.
