Our Favorite SIns

Title:  Our Favorite Sins

Author:  Todd Hunter

    The author has had more tan 30 years of pastoral experience.  Pastor Hunter knows that everyone--himself included--deals with temptation every day.  All too often we fail and fall, and som o us are at or wit's end, utterly defeated.  Walking out of our favorite sns makes perfect sense after you have done it.  But we need a biblical, psychologically, sophisticated, pastoral guide toge us to that pont.  That is Todd Hunter.

    Beating temptaton requires struggle because it always involves sorting out rightly odered desires for good ad Godly things from our disordered desires for wrong things.  We ofter experience these disodered desires as our most powerful and deeply rooted desires.  There are innumerable ways to gratify our desires that are contrary to God's will for our lives. Sometimes it seems to make sense "in the moment".

Somewhere down te path we realize that somewhere we really did lose coherent and good judgemnt.  Sin robs us of our clarity.  "Our Favorite Sins" is lovingly wrtten to encourage those who have decided to resist favorite sins, those of us who are looking for ways to win against temptation. 

    Some sins are easily visible, like hitting an innocent peson. Some are less so, like a hidden attitude of hatred.  The principles drawn frm in this book from the specific research and personal stories are easly applied to anyone's specific set of desires, temptations, and sins.  Everyone can learn from this book.  Truth is truth.  The real sources of temptation do not come from hip, inviting marketing slogans from businesses.  The actual starting place for temptation lies deep within us.  Perhaps the chief power of temptations is their ability to lie to us.

    The first decisionone needsto make as we put this book dwn is this:  What do really love?  The second goes with it:  What will I kick to th curb?  Once we answer these 2 questions, reordering desires will become, over time, automatic.This book uses many biblical references and scripture to help us drop our favorite sins ad pick up love fo God and our neighbors.

 

I found this book very helpful.  I would give it 5 stars.