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Title: Not Even a Hint : Guarding Your Heart Against Lust by Joshua Harris ISBN: 1-59052-147-1 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 16 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book on lust I've ever read
Comment: This is a powerful book on dealing with sexual temptation. Joshua Harris does a fantastic job of setting every man's battle in its proper biblical and theological context. He is not soft on sin, but neither does he lead one to discouragement or despair. He understands that a right relationship with God is by grace through faith alone, but he knows that the faith which justifies also sanctifies. He is candid and honest, yet remains discreet, writing a book which is appropriate for and targeted to both men and women. He avoids setting hard and fast rules, advocating that we develop "a custom-tailored plan" for fighting against lust, but he provides plenty of practical ideas about how to make progress. He addresses sensitive issues (like masturbation) as well as cultural issues (like media and dress). Best of all, he encourages open accountability ("lone rangers are dead rangers") and provides an excellent chapter on how to fight the lying promises of lust with the true and satisfying promises of God. Drawing on the wisdom of John Piper's Future Grace, and C. J. Mahaney's The Cross-centered Life, this is one of the best books on sanctification I've seen, and the best book on the particular subject of sexual temptation I've ever read. I highly recommend this to both men and women, single or married. Thanks, Josh for sharing your heart with us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grace oriented
Comment: I'm so thankful for this book. When I read this book I didn't finish with a weight of condemnation but a greater love for the cross and the Saviour. Josh clearly makes it not about sex but about LUST the sin of putting your desire in something other then God. I know in my own heart I often respond to lust in my life to think that I can't even notice a pretty girl.. "It's not lust to be attracted to someone or notice that he or she is good looking." Its all about letting creation point you back to the creator, not yourself. Also he makes it clear that there are healthy sexual desires, God of course is the creator of them, its us that [twist]the desires.
Thank you Joshua. After my first experience with I kissed dating goodbye I responded sinfully and hated the book, although there were some minimal legalistic tendencies each book he has written directs me more and more back to the cross and the life of Jesus and what was accomplished. Not on myself and my own condemnation.
The one downside was I wish he spent more time talking about lust that we as christians experience outside of sexuality. Like the passage he quotes from eph. 5, greed is also involved and there is such a large context I experience lust outside of sexual desires.
Rating: 4
Summary: A thoughtful and clear-headed book
Comment: Jesus Christ had greater insight into the human soul, what was good for its health, and what was bad for its health, than anyone else in human history. What was his take on lust? "I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Strong words indeed.
Joshua Harris follows his master closely in this excellent book on lust. Like Jesus, Joshua thinks that lust should not have any place in the human heart. Like Jesus, Joshua does not think lust is a normal human thing we should indulge every once in a while to avoid the risk of "repression."
Instead, Joshua humbly and lovingly tells it like it is. Lust is a deadly enemy that we must kill before it kills us. Ironically, one of the first good things that lust kills in us is healthy sexual desire. That much should be plain to any Christian, and to perceptive non-Christians. But given the fact that many people, including some Christians, attempt to evade the clear biblical truth about lust, I am grateful that Joshua has taken the time to set forth the basic facts about it. He doesn't do it arrogantly or judgmentally -- he just does it. With courage, a clear head, and a clear voice.
But this little book's virtues extend beyond stating the obvious. Joshua takes time to distinguish good things, like humanity and sexual desire, from bad things, like sin and perverted sexual desire. Thus, Joshua does not think that having a physical body is a bad thing, or that having a sex drive is a bad thing--quite the contrary. His clarity should help a lot of people accurately identify and kill their true enemy--lust--and not indiscriminately attack healthy sexual desire in the process.
Joshua also gives helpful practical strategies for battling lust, while discouraging legalism. The advice Joshua offers and the stories he relates may very well help those in the midst of struggle. But he does not come close to saying that the strategies he offers should be normative for everyone. In short, this book manages to be wise and practical without even a hint of legalism. How refreshing. And how biblical.
And no review of Not Even a Hint would be complete unless it mentioned how much Joshua emphasizes the grace of God throughout the book. The mercy of God is essential, not only in our justification and the forgiveness of our past sin, but also in our sanctification, that is, the cultivation of holiness and the eradication of our present sin. Indeed, Joshua writes that no effort on our part will be fruitful apart from the grace of God, and that battling sin without consciously relying on the mercy of God could actually do us more harm than good.
Despite those virtues, I gave the book four stars, not five, because it did not quite fulfill one of its own purposes: to be a book equally helpful to males and females. I say "not quite" because Joshua actually does much, much better here than many. He says that lust is a human problem, not a guy problem. He even acknowledges that some ladies may struggle with varieties of lust that have typically been called "masculine." But still some of the normal stereotypes surface in Not Even a Hint: men are stimulated by sight, women by touch. Men's lust is purely visual and physical; women's lust is emotional and tied up with romantic longings. I don't think anyone can make those generalizations with any confidence, (1) because the Bible doesn't make them, and (2) because (as Joshua acknowledges) lust has been such a taboo subject among women that many of them haven't really spoken of their own struggles. If a young woman who struggles with straightforward visual, physical lust reads Not Even a Hint, she will, thankfully, not come away convinced that she's a total freak of nature, as she might if she read a different book on lust. But that young woman may still think that she's a little strange, and may still feel more isolated than she really is. I am grateful that Joshua started to roll back some of the old generalizations about lust and gender here; I just wish he'd gone a little further.
In all, however, this is an outstanding little book. Its content is, for the most part, accurate and wise, and it is very much "PG-rated," as the author desired. Perhaps its greatest virtue, though, is the author's vulnerability and transparency. Joshua doesn't make any vague, general confessions here; he gets pretty specific in places (without being lascivious). In other words, he doesn't just extol the virtues of humility and honesty about sin; he models them. Joshua's humble perceptiveness makes this a work both truthful and graceful: the grace doesn't dilute the truth, and the truth doesn't nullify the grace.
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Title: Boy Meets Girl : Say Hello to Courtship by Joshua Harris ISBN: 1576737098 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 23 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships And Romance by Joshua Harris, Rebecca St. James ISBN: 1576730360 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Authentic Beauty : the shaping of a set-apart young woman by Leslie Ludy ISBN: 1590522680 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control by Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris, Ruth Bell Graham ISBN: 0800758188 Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Every Young Man's Battle : Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation by Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorkey ISBN: 1578565375 Publisher: WaterBrook Press Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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