Our Favorite Sins by Todd Hunter

Our Favorite Sins The Sins We Commit and How You Can Quit

By Todd Hunter
Published by Thomas Nelson

Book Description

The Essential Guide for Beating Temptation

Falling for temptation isn’t inevitable. We don’t have to lose the fight. In fact, we can win if we understand the root of the problem and what Christians have done from the beginning to beat it. Our Favorite Sins shines a much-needed light in our lives’ dark corners and reveals the time-tested methods for getting victory over sin.

Are you tyrannized by your own desires?

If you are breathing, your answer is probably yes.

The question is: What are you going to do about it?

With more than thirty years of pastoral experience, Todd D. Hunter knows that most people—himself included—struggle every day with temptation. All too often, we fail and fall, and some of us are at our wit’s end, utterly defeated. What do we do to get a grip on the sin in our life and live like God wants?
There’s good news: despite all our failures and shameful “moments after,” there really is a way out, a way forward, and a way that draws us closer to the life that God desires for us.

In Our Favorite Sins, Hunter cracks open the problem of temptation and points to practical, Biblically based, time-tested solutions. First revealing the role played by our disordered desires, Hunter shows how different temptations trip us up and how we can resist and overcome them, even if we’ve fallen prey to them for decades. Victory starts with reordering our desires, and the church has given us the tools for the job. Hunter shows us how to use them and start beating the temptations that so often beat us.

Informed by exclusive research from the Barna Group, Our Favorite Sins offers a view that works for any believer wherever they are and no matter how big the battle they’re fighting.

The first half of the book defines, through various characters such as Anxious Annie, Procrasting Prestion, Eating Eddie, some very "deadly sins" in people's lives.  While I like the simplicity with which the author wrote and his use of names for sins, I do not believe he offered anything new with which to battle tempation. 

The author discusses that something tempts a person only if there is a preexisting desire in that person for the object in view, that sin and temptation are powerless without that desire. He states that tempation does not produce desire, desire make tempation possible.

When our desires for the things not of God, they are what the author calls, disordered desires.  After discussing and giving examples (1st half of book), the author talks about turning our hearts toward home, getting back to holiness and good virtues.  How does he suggest we go about this?  Through the practices of silence and solitude.  I am not familiar with the theology of the anglican church so maybe those concepts are new to them but to me, that is Christianity 101.

Would I recommend this book?  Probably not.  The bent is very denominational and while there is some foundational information contained in this book, I know that are other books available that can better teach how to truly follow Jesus!

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