Table of Contents
1 Your King’s Declaration of War Against Lust
2 The Hardest Battle God’s Sons Have Ever Fought
3 The Threat of Willing Wicked Women on the World Wide Web
4 We Are at War, But Are We Warriors?
10 Get Grace, Encouragement, & Protection
11 Get Smart, Scared, & Sensitive
A P.O.W.E.R. Plan for God Times
B P.O.W.E.R. Plan for Barnabas Groups
C Your Plan & Progress in Your War with Lust
D Memory Verses for Your War with Lust
Peter Kleponis, Integrity Restored: Helping Catholic Families Win the Battle Against Pornography, Emmaus Road Publishing, Kindle Edition.
Based on the number of references to this resource in Your War with Lust, it is obvious we think this is a very good book on the topic. The author is a Christian counselor who has had extensive experience with this issue. This immediately puts him in a superior position to give guidance than many authors of books on this topic. Some might be turned off by the Catholicism in a few places in the book, but there is good information here. The author also has a website at
Tom Challies, blog “10 Articles on Pornograpy,” at https://www.challies.com/resources/10-articles-on-pornography.
Challies’ “gospel” approach to everything is always refreshing. While he does not give in-depth help on how to overcome lust, he has some encouraging things to say. While we would agree with his review of Everyman’s Battle, we would disagree with his review of Finally Free.
Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker, Every Man’s Battle: Every Man’s Guide to Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time (Crown Kindle Edition, 2000).
This has been by far the most popular Christian book on the topic for several years. On one hand, anything Christian on this topic is generally worth reading. However, this book is very outdated as it does not even address the Internet. Nor is there any mention of the need to have your identity in Christ or renew your mind. Finally, the authors seem to place too much responsibility on the wife.
Michael John Cusick, Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle, Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. 2012.
This book does a good job of describing some of the inner needs that lead to sinful lust. But it’s solution is disappointing. Essentially the advice given is to: 1) Identify lies, 2) Renounce them out loud so the devil hears you, 3) Do this persistently until it works. He also has a prayer to recite. It is doubtful that these steps would significantly help a person renew the subconscious parts of their mind that are causing their lust. One final minor critique is that the author uses so many metaphors that his points can actually become less clear.
Heath Lambert, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace, (Zondervan, 2013).
A great title with much promise. But unfortunately the author’s essential prescription is the same “confess and repent” approach so popular and yet so ineffective. We quote substantially from this book in the FREEDOM study of the Christian Essentials to demonstrate how this approach misses the real biblical approach: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2).