Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace Author: Heath Lambert | Language: English | ISBN:
B00A9USCLK | Format: PDF
Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace Description
If you have struggled personally against the powerful draw of pornography, or if you have ever tried to help someone fighting this battle, you know how hard it is to break free. But real freedom isn't found by trying harder to change. Nor is it found in a particular method or program. Only Jesus Christ has the power to free people from the enslaving power of pornography.
In Finally Free, Dr. Heath Lambert, a leader in the biblical counseling movement, lays out eight gospel-centered strategies for overcoming the deceitful lure of pornography. Each chapter clearly demonstrates how the gospel applies to this particular battle and how Jesus can move readers from a life of struggle to a life of purity.
If you or someone you care about is fighting this battle, there is good news: No matter how intense or long-standing the struggle, Jesus Christ can, will, and does set people free from the power of pornography.
- File Size: 1712 KB
- Print Length: 178 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: B00ESCDEQS
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- Publisher: Zondervan (August 6, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00A9USCLK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Pornography is a massive problem inside and outside the Church. It is also a problem that has affected me personally as one who has overcome an addiction to pornography. While I've often written about pornography and how to overcome it, I'm always amazed that there is more to cover and examine when it comes to this issue. I've read widely on the topic of pornography from both a secular and Christian perspective to better understand a variety of issues that relate to why people get addicted to pornography. I can honestly say I haven't read a better book that ties the Gospel to the problem of pornography and how to overcome a porn addiction than Dr. Health Lambert's new book Finally Free: Fighting for Purity With the Power of Grace.
I've become increasingly convinced both through my own studies, experience and ministering to those who are addicted to pornography that one cannot minister and speak on this topic without struggling with this issue to some degree themselves. This is one reason I appreciate Dr. Lambert's book because he writes about his struggle and the process he went through to overcome an addiction to pornography. People who've wrestled with an addiction to pornography and found freedom in Jesus are able to point out why they struggled and how people can find hope and healing in Jesus.
While the whole book is extremely helpful, grounded in the Word of God and the Gospel of the Lord Jesus, two ideas from the book stood out to me, namely forgiving and transforming grace. While the vast majority of the literature on this topic talks about how to "overcome" or how the brain is affected by pornography or how to be pure, what I appreciate about this book is how the author holds out the Gospel to those who are struggling.
Cross Focused Reviews provided me the opportunity to review this new book on gospel centered stategies to combat pornography. The great thing about the book is that it is not ultimately about pornography. Don't misunderstand me, Heath Lambert deals with pornography better than any author that I have read. But in the course of doing this he also makes the gospel very plain, shows clearly how the 8 strategies that he puts forward serve to grow the reader spiritually, and avoids offering the types of salacious details that make some readers uncomfortable. This gospel centered approach to pornography which will serve any reader well in any area of spiritual struggle. As I read this book I found myself spiritually encouraged and uplifted. The strategies that Lambert outlines would serve any man (or woman), whether or not they are struggling with pornography. I can honestly commend this book to anyone, regardless of age or gender, as a good book on how to grow spiritually. This leads to a second strength of the book.
I think Lambert achieves this goal by putting pornography in its place (so to speak). Pornography is such an overwhelming problem for our society now that it needs to be put in its place, lest folks lose hope. Lambert convincingly shows the link between this sin and other sins. He makes it clear that pornography is not the only spiritual struggle that an addicted person must address. One advantage to Lambert's approach as compared to others I've seen is that if men follow his counsel then they will continue to grow spiritually in other areas after they no longer feel in bondage to pornography.
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