More Than a Battle: How to Experience Victory, Freedom, and Healing from Lust

It has never been more difficult to flee sexual immorality and pursue holiness. We live in an age of unprecedented access to sexual temptation. Previous generations faced adultery, prostitution, and brothels. But not every person had a brothel in their pocket. Our society?s obsession with sex, coupled with the technologies that make pornography so accessible, make it more challenging than it?s ever been.  The result is that our families, our churches, and our society are being devastated by a pornography epidemic. InMore than a Battle, pastor and author Joe Rigney offers hope for Christian men who are seeking to live with integrity and faithfulness in the face of the sexual temptation around them. Drawing on the Scriptures, his personal experience, and his pastoral counseling, Rigney frames the struggle with lust beneath the banner of Galatians 5:16: "Walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.?  The struggle with lust is a fierce battle, an enslaving addiction, and a deep brokenness. Rigney shows us that through the gospel it is the Holy Spirit that gives us victory, sets us free, and heals our wounds.  About the AuthorJoe Rigney (Ph.D., University of Chester) serves as Assistant Professor of Theology and Literature at Bethlehem College & Seminary. He is the author of four books: Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in Lewis?s Chronicles (Eyes & Pen, 2013), The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts (Crossway, 2015), Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God (Crossway, 2018), and Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World? (Crossway, 2020) Joe is also a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul. Joe lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three sons.