Buy ten copies. Give one to every man in your church. Give one to your elders and ask them to preach its content from the pulpit. Give one to the twenty-something who just confessed his struggle and was told by the last book he read that his desires are “part of his story.”

Jared Moore’s new devotional is not just a “good book.” It is a declaration of war on every lie the evangelical elites have taught about sexual desire in the last twenty years.

Every so often in church history, there arises a moment where a single man, standing in a narrow place, refuses to join the parade of fashionable error that dominates the moment and thereby makes all the difference.

One of the most destructive parades in modern church history began around 2013 with Sam Allberry’s book Is God Anti-Gay? While there were other voices at the time making similar arguments (Wesley Hill and Ed Shaw come to mind), it was Alberry, who claimed that God said same sex attraction was not sinful, only same sex action, that truly coalesced the cavalcade. His association with Christian publishers The Good Book and Crossway, as well as the enthusiastic support of The Gospel Coalition, positioned him as the Grand Marshall, and away the procession went.

The net effect was a generation of pastors and believers who learned to step aside, to smile politely, to stammer about “complexity” and “pastoral sensitivity” or, as in the case of J.D. Greear, to claim that “the Bible whispers” about homosexuality and other sexual sins. An entire era of churchmen were trained—by conferences, by publishers, by the cool kids on the internet—to believe that clarity on sexual sin is inherently unloving, that plain speech about lust is “fundamentalist,” and that the most Christlike thing a pastor can do is lower his voice and add three qualifying paragraphs before he dares approach Leviticus or Romans 1.

Jared Moore was the man who looked at that parade and planted his feet. His previous book, The Lust of the Flesh, singularly dismantled the chic deception Alberry and company perpetrated on the church. 

Now, he has returned to the arena to give those beguiled by the destructive trends that dominated an age of evangelicalism a way out of error and into the freedom that Christ offers.

33 Days to Freedom From Lust: A Hope-Filled Devotional is not merely a “good book.” It is a declaration of war, a war of liberation, on every lie the evangelical world has embraced about sexual desire in the last twenty years, and to free everyone taken captive by the deceitfulness of sin. It is a sustained, daily, unblinking exposure of lust as hatred, stupidity, murder, and satanic imitation.

And it is written with such calm, joyful, Scripture-saturated confidence that the reader finishes the thirty-three days convinced, not merely managing a sheltered sin, not coping, not “celibate while same-sex attracted”—but free.

Please stop reading this review right now and order ten copies. I am not exaggerating. Ten. One for yourself, one for every man in your discipleship group, one for your pastor, one for the young man in your church who is terrified to tell anyone what he battles because the last Christian book he read told him his disordered sexual desires were “a gift to steward.”

Then, when those are gone, order another ten. You’ll have to buy it from Amazon because this book will not be sold by the prominent publishers that gave us Allberry’s error. The men who run those publishers will quietly hate this book because it exposes how destructive their error was, and will pretend it does not exist. Thankfully, it does and will lead people into life in Christ.

The structure of the book is simple, readily accessible, and that is part of its genius. Thirty-three days—long enough to break a habit, short enough to finish speedily. Each day is built around a single, glorious attribute of God placed in contrast to the corresponding attribute of lust:

Day 1: God is Eternal / Lust is Temporary
Day 2: God is Holy / Lust is Sin
Day 6: God is All Wise / Lust is All Stupid
Day 9: God is Beauty / Lust is Ugly
Day 10: God is Love / Lust is Hate
Day 22: The Holy Spirit is Life / Lust is a Murderer
Day 27: God Created Us for Marriage / Lust Says We Were Created for Sex
Day 30: Christ is Our Identity / Lust is Our Enemy

This is not clever wordplay. This is holy warfare. Moore is doing what almost no one in the celebrity pastor class has the courage to do: he is letting the infinite glory of God stand up next to the grotesque reality of our indwelling lust and refusing to avert his gaze. The contrast is brutal because reality is brutal. And grace is only amazing when we finally see what we have been saved from.

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