Top 5 Books for 2025 so far

We are halfway through 2025, and it has been another good year for reading God-exalting material so here are my top 5 books of the year so far in no particular order:

Consider the Lilies: Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God by Jonny Ardavanis

Cultivating Spiritual Growth: Striving for Maturity in Christ by Conrad Mbewe

Fight Like a Man: A Bold, Biblical Battle Plan for Personal Purity by Emeal (“E.Z.”) Zwayne

The History and Theology of Calvinism by Curt Daniel

A Biblical Theology of Climate Change by Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker

Purity in a Digital World

Lets face it, the Internet and even Social Media can places where we see things that will make our grandparents blush. Truth be told it should make us blush. Men stumble across pornography, whether intentional or not, everyday.

Can Christians be pure when it comes to technology? Yes, they can. In this video, Tim Challies talks about being pure in a digitial world.




Books by Tim Challies:

The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion

Sexual Detox: A Guide for Guys who are Sick of Porn

Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth about God

Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

Purity in a Digital Age

Tim Challies delivers a much needed sermon in our day and time. This video is from session of the 2015 Ligonier National Conference.

Book Review: Finally Free by Heath Lambert

Pornography is an ongoing struggle for many in the church today. It is an ongoing struggle for those who lead the church today. I am reading that during a Promise Keepers rally for Pastors, the question was asked, "how many of you viewed a porn site a week before coming here?" About 90% of the room, filled with pastors, raised their hand.

What are ways that men can overcome their struggle over pornography through the lens of the gospel without being very moralistic about it? Heath Lambert shares eight gospel-centered strategies in his book, Finally Free. Before he shares those strategies, he writes about grace. Christians need to know that grace is the fundamental in dealing with not just the sin of pornography but all sin in general.

The eight strategies in dealing with pornography are:

1. Sorrow, godly sorrow to be more precise

2. Accountability

3. Radical Measures

4. Confession

5. Your spouse (or singleness), which I am glad he writes to single people in this book as well.

6. Humility

7. Gratitude

8. Dynamic Relationships

Now I know I am not doing any justice to the book by summarising what Lambert is saying, but this book is a book needed for our time. With the access to the Internet via smart phones and coffee shops with WiFi connections, pornography can be easily accessed more now than ever before. Pornography has destroyed marriages as well as a pastor's ministry. There are not many churches ready to help men to fight their sin especially through the gospel. This is a book I highly recommend all men to read even you do not struggle with pornography.

Thanks Booksneeze for letting me review this book.