Book Review: Every Man’s Battle
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Every Man’s Battle
By Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker,
and Mike Yorkey
I’m more than half way through reading Every Man’s Battle, Every Man’s Guide to Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time, and I’ve already discovered Biblical insight and practical strategies to help me pursue sexual purity. If you’re an average Christian guy, you may not think you need a book like this. You might be thinking that since you’re abstaining from sex, you’re sexually pure. But God’s standard of sexual purity goes far beyond avoiding physical acts of adultery and fornication; we must be pure in our thought life and what we allow our eyes to lust after.
The authors are surprisingly honest and open about topics that are usually avoided in Christian conversations. The book shines a bright light on dark areas of men’s lives that they fight to keep secret, our subtle sexual sins that we refuse to address. Sexual purity according to God’s standard is very important for Christians, because we can easily hide sinful habits while appearing like “good Christian men” on the outside. We like to lust with our eyes. We like to fantasize with our minds. We like to watch things that make lust and fantasize even more. Until we take these sins seriously, we will be far from God’s standard of sexual purity, and we will be dangerously close to acting out our sinful fantasies.
Although primarily intended for married Christian men, I highly recommend reading Every Man’s Battle by Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, and Mike Yorkey. They address the readers who are single, and there are even sections for wives who may be reading the book, that they may understand their husbands better.
Ephesians 5:3
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
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