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Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace by [Heath Lambert, Joshua Harris]

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Eight gospel-centered strategies for overcoming the lure of pornography and finally breaking free.

This book is not about pornography. You won't find graphic depictions about the porn industry, the catastrophic effects it has on individuals and relationships, or how to think differently about porn. If you're reading this book, you probably have some understanding of those things already—the last thing you need is to be subjected to that kind of detail...again.

Finally Free is about hope. It's about discovering the freeing power available to those who trust in Jesus Christ, who can, will, and does set people free from the power of pornography.

Dr. Heath Lambert, a leader in the biblical counseling movement, has organized this book around eight clear and practical tactics you can wield to make it easier to flee lust and temptation and shelter in the protection of God's grace. Each chapter:

Clearly demonstrates how the gospel applies to the fight against sexual temptation.
Lays out relevant methods for leaning on Christ's strength—both in advance of and in moments of temptation.
Explains how Jesus can move readers from a life of struggle to a life of purity.

If you've struggled personally against the powerful draw of pornography, or if you've ever tried to help someone fighting this battle, you know how hard it is to break its bonds. But there is good news: no matter how intense or long-standing the struggle, Jesus Christ has the power to free people from the enslaving power of pornography.

The Gospel has a power that works practically in the lives of those who seek to imitate Christ—and you can learn how to live into that power.

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Recovering from addiction is a long climb... But with the power of grace, it is possible. With Christ, you can be Finally Free.

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"In this book, I want to share with you the amazing depth and effect of Christ's power to eradicate pornography from your life. Whether you struggle with pornography yourself or are trying to help someone who struggles, I have good news for you: no matter how intense or long-standing the struggle, it is the work of Jesus Christ to set people free from such sin."


“This book is richly biblical, soundly Christian, and centered in the gospel. Christians should read it and quickly pass it to others. It will be of enormous help to pastors, youth ministers, college ministers, and the Christians of all ages struggling against the tide of our pornographic age.” - R. Albert Mohler Jr., president Southern Baptist Theological Seminary	“I’ve read just about every Christian book on the topic of pornography. Finally Free is now the first book I will recommend to pastors, counselors, strugglers, and those who love them." - Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., Executive Director, The Biblical Counseling Coalition	Finally Free is not the typical man-centered self-help book that offers the reader shallow teachings and a hopeless future. Instead, Heath Lambert systematically builds his case for freedom on the tried-and-true solutions provided by God's Word... l highly recommend this book." - Steve Gallagher, founder, Pure Life Ministries

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No other book I have read so helpfully lays out strategies-strategies you can actually do and that will actually work-in the fight against porn. . . . This book will equip you for the fight.-- "Tim Challies, author of Sexual Detox" --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

About the Author

Dr. Heath Lambert is the Executive Director of The National Association of Nouthetic Counselors. He also serves as the Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and their undergraduate institution, Boyce College, where he is also the Associate Dean of Applied Studies and the Department Chairman of Biblical Counseling. He is the author of The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams (Crossway, 2011), the coeditor (with Stuart Scott) of Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God’s Resources in Scripture (B&H, 2012), and has written Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Zondervan, 2013). Dr. Lambert is on the editorial board of The Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood and The Journal of Family Ministry, and is a council member of The Biblical Counseling Coalition. He is married to Lauren, and is the father of Carson, Chloe, and Connor.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan (August 6, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 6, 2013
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Heath Lambert (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church Jacksonville, Florida. He is the author of The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams (Crossway, 2011), co-editor of Counseling the Hard Cases: True Stories Illustrating the Sufficiency of God's Resources in Scripture (B&H, 2012), author of Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace (Zondervan, 2013), co-author of Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says about Sexual Orientation and Change (P&R, 2015), and author of A Theology of Biblical Counseling: The Doctrinal Foundation of Counseling Ministry (Zondervan, 2016).

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Tom

This outdated book is for the days of playboy and hotel porn!

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2020

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This book is exactly what’s wrong with the church today. Porn is a hard and sticky subject to talk about and the church is afraid to really get down to the nitty-gritty details and just point to the surface level of God’s grace instead of his life altering and redefining sanctification. I’m sorry but the days hotel porn and playboy are over. Kids age of 12 have seen such perverse things on their phones their parents have never even heard or dreamed of. The book starts out with two examples of 30-year-olds casually getting into porn. What we need is books that don’t pull any punches and will help the the eight-year-olds being introduced to gay orgies, bestiality and rape porn. One last note, we no longer live in a society were throwing out the computer works. this book talks about desperate measures and getting them all out of your house. That’s hard to do when you work half the time from your phone. We can access pornography on our phones our tablets our computers our game consoles our watches, heck even our refrigerators. Unless you want to start a new wave of Amish that focuses on staying in the 1990s we need to somehow find a solution for this epidemic in our tech world!

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Valdivia4

Not the core solution

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019

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Unfortunately, reading this book sounded like most of the Christian material on how to find relief from woundedness, bondage, and liberation from besetting sins: essentially trying harder to live the Christian life with God's "transforming grace." Read more, pray more, be more thankful, etc.
What I found missing were concepts that have the ability to really set someone free: co-crucifixtion with Christ, death of the old self, your spiritual inheritance in Christ, your new identity in Christ, etc.
I'm sure this book will have some limited effect against the power of sin inside all believers, but I predict the success rate would be under 20 percent. I'm sorry, I do not believe trying harder is the answer, but renewing the mind to what God has freely given us in Christ has the best chance of freeing us from the enemies of our soul and spirit.

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T Peterson

Perhaps the Best Book Out There on this Topic

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2016

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Every pastor should have in his library a book or two to help a person who is fighting against the temptation of pornography. Sadly, very few of the books out there are actually helpful. Some books strive so hard to be real and down-to-earth that they actually describe far too much and become salacious. Other books give into modern psychological explanations of addiction and fail to address the deep sin issue at the heart of porn. Still others are so simplistic as not to be useful.

In Finally Free, I believe that Heath Lambert has found a solid balance of truth, Scripture, and righteousness that will truly be helpful to someone desiring to repent of watching porn. This book is not given to all the porn horror stories. Nor is it a detailed luck at the harm that the porn industry does. Instead, it is a faithful and honest look at what tools are available to the Christian who desires to live a holy life.

Let me share with you a few examples of the kind of wise counsel present in Finally Free. In the first chapter, Lambert challenges people not to become so self-focused in their struggle as to miss that so much of the sin of watching porn is that very self-focus. Lambert writes:

“Meditating on how miserable and pathetic you are only perpetuates the sinful self-centeredness that led you to look at pornography in the first place. Condemning self-talk still has you standing center stage as you reflect on what you think about what you have done, and as you describe what you think you deserve because of what you did. It’s all about you. The problem is there is too much you in all this. You need Christ. And the only way to break the vicious cycle is to get outside of yourself to Jesus.”

Lambert is so correct there. Too often we will fail in an area of sin, and then spend time attempting to mentally punish ourselves for our failure. While we must not accept and tolerate sinfulness in ourselves, to think that our self-punishment will help us is to deny the gospel and sin further by continuing to place ourselves at the center of our universe.

In chapter 7, Lambert addresses the dangerous myopia that can arise as a person struggles against an obvious sin like porn. He shows us that, if we are not careful, we will develop an arrogance in other areas of life as we measure our righteousness or sinfulness against our watching or not watching of porn. Lambert says:

“If you want to cut the root of porn with the ax of humility, you must consider the other sins in your life as well. You are sinful in more ways than one. You have other problems besides the desire to see pornographic images. It will be good for your soul and for your growth in Christ to consider other sins besides the one that has you reading this book. It is humbling to consider other sins for which you need the forgiving and transforming grace of Jesus.”

One real piece of wisdom Lambert offers in chapter 6 of this book addresses the role that a man’s wife plays in helping him battle his sin. The author tells us that it is unwise and unhelpful for a wife to attempt to be her husband’s accountability partner, especially in an area like pornography. He is not arguing that a man should not have a solid and challenging accountability partner, but simply that a man’s wife has another role to play. Lambert writes:

“You may have noticed that this chapter didn’t address the topic of having your wife be an accountability partner. That’s intentional. I don’t think your wife should fill that role. You should treat your wife as your wife. She should be free to treat you as her husband. It is a deadly poison for a marriage when a wife becomes a cop policing her husband’s activity, asking him all kinds of questions, and examining his Internet reports. Your wife needs to know you have a faithful accountability partner doing those things so she can have peace of mind as she focuses her energy on being married to you.”

In chapter 8, Lambert demonstrates to us the connection between gratitude and holiness. One of the failings of the man or woman watching porn is that he or she has stopped being grateful to God for all of the good things that God has given. Instead, the person giving into the desire to see what is not right to see has decided that God’s good gifts are not good enough. Lambert says it this way:

“Porn is only consumed by thankless people. The desire for porn is a desire to escape from what the Lord has given you into a fake universe full of things you do not have and will never have. Porn is the trading of gratitude for greed. Porn trades joy in the reality God has graced you with for greed in the counterfeit world he has not. Defeating porn requires a grateful consideration of God’s good gifts to you.”

Finally, in the conclusion of the book, Lambert brings the arguments of the nine solid chapters to bear. Christians are called by God to fight the good fight against sin with the tools God has given us. Those tools include grace, sorrow, accountability, confession, your spouse or singleness, humility, gratitude, and a dynamic relationship with Christ. Of course, there are still other tools we can use, but God has given us enough to battle and defeat this sin through the power of his word, his holy Spirit, and our local church. As Lambert says to us:

“Christian, hear the Word of God: the impurity of pornography stands in direct opposition to who you are in Christ. The blood of Jesus beckons you to holiness. You are summoned to look like Jesus. Therefore you must flee from living like an unbeliever and inflicting sexual harm on others. You must run passionately away from porn and toward holiness, love, self-control, and grace.”

I hope that the above insights will be enough to help my readers to see that I believe Finally Free to be a solid, go-to work to help men and women in the battle against pornography. Pastors, men’s groups, accountability groups, youth groups, biblical counselors, husbands, and wives all may find ways for this book to be useful. It is biblically faithful and strong. It is also helpful for more than those who struggle with porn, as its principles of repentance and accountability are genuinely helpful for a variety of our struggles. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

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Chimbobway

Author Has No Personal Experience, Don't Waste Your Time

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021

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Unless I missed something, this book ends with the author stating that he never really had the problem this book covers. He talks at the very end about how he doesn't have the urge anymore as he passes a porn store, to stop there... but, unless I missed something, he never really talks about his own experience ever. He talks some hardcore cases of others but I was just like, "Ok. So, you can talk about the terribleness of porn, how it ruins your life and others but personally... you are ok? Seriously!? Just say these are statistics or stories of others and that you personally don't struggle but "here are the stories and stats of why this will destroy you". Ugh. When I read that last page in this book I was just like, "Screw this." It invalidated the whole book. Buy "Every Man's Battle", and for women, buy "Every Woman's Battle. If you are reading this, buy both of those and skip this trash. I'm still angry about this book even though I read it a few years ago. If I am wrong about the author and he actually talked about his experiences in this book then please forgive me. I just remember being VERY disappointed at the end.

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Luffedup

This is a brilliant book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2017

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This is a brilliant book.... I don't fully subscribe to every point of guidance given, however read this with an open spirit and it will have a profound effect.... It encourages you to consider yourself with complete honesty and the more objective you can be the greater likelihood of full and complete healing. You can (in my view) apply the principles to pretty much any addiction or 'obsession' ... I would recommend this book to anyone struggling with anything (not just pornography), which is why I bought it.

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Mr. Stephen Hiller

Honest helpful recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2018

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This book was recommended to me after having had some incredibly positive improvements in the subject matter. It has continued to move me into a much more free situation today, reaffirming that God’s grace is sufficient and His mercies are indeed never ending - and the work he has begun in you will be brought to a completion. Enjoy. Be challenged. Be more free.

Shamar

Amazing and so empowering whilst instructing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2017

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Amazing and so empowering whilst instructing. It really does give you so many tools I'm order to combat the struggle .

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2018

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Loved the book. Gives you effective tools from the bible to resist sexual sin. Draws you closed to God

Malcolm Fielder