John Owen wrote, "Be killing sin or sin be killing you." The Apostle Paul wrote, "Put to death with is earthly in you" (Colossians 3:5). Christians are to engaged in an everyday day battle with sin from the moment of conversion to the moment we are with the Lord.

Most of us think of the big sins such as adultery, lust, greed, and even murder. What are about the little sins? What about those sins that seem to be no big deal in our minds because they are just smalls compare the other ones? If we truly look at sin, big and small, they are in the same boat. No sin is big or small. Granted 1 John 5 says that there are sins that don't lead to death, but they are still an offense to a holy God. Rush Witt has written a book to help us deal with the "snail sized sin habits" that seem to plague us. The book is titled, Diehard Sins.

In order to deal with sin, we must know what sin is. Witt wrote that the Bible speaks on sin as a transgression of the law and we violate the commands of a holy God. Sin is anything that is against the commands of God. Owning our sin will help us in knowing when we have gone astray. God does confront sin and he wants his people to do the same. Jesus came to deal with sin. If God never confronted sin, we would all be a peace not feeling the weight of condemnation.

Witt reminds his readers that though all of us are tempted even Jesus was tempted, temptation is not a sin. Yielding to temptation is a sin because we have trusted the promise of that sin rather than the promise of God. As our sin remains in us in spite of the saving work of Christ, we must be depended on Christ to assist us in our battle with sin. When we fall short, we must run to Christ and ask for forgiveness.

The people of God must always be on alert when it comes to their sin whether corporately or individually. In order to fight sin, we need the church. While the church is not perfect, it is the best line of defense against sin even the little ones.

I am delighted to recommend this book along with Owen's Mortification of Sin and Hedges' Licenced to Kill in dealing with our battle over sin.

This book managed to be the book I've been searching for this entire year. I am so glad it was finally published. If you are looking for a book that will sum for you the teaching of Scripture as well as the insights of great theologians throughout history on remaining sin, this is it. You don't need to look any further. I have found books on this topic that enlarge my view of God but left me feeling hopeless and stuck. I have found books on this topic that invigorated me to action but ultimately did not help to foster any lasting change because their action plans ended up driving me back to burn-out-inducing self-striving. This book carefully threads the needle between those cliffs. This book will help you see how God is glorified as you repeatedly fail to keep his law. It will help you to see how he is working in and through and with you to grow you, no matter how slowly. It will remind you that Scripture clearly states that change is possible, that we must kill our sin. It will lay out action plans for being in Scripture and in church community that I am convinced can really help root out sin in our lives.

My only wish for this book was that there would be a few examples of taking one specific kind of die hard sin, or a few, and applying the concrete steps from Chapters 8 and 9 and Appendix A to it a little more carefully. A real example from the author's life, the life of a counselee who consented to share her story, or even an amalgamation of people would have been helpful. Still, there was enough detail there that one can put it together from the instructions without an illustration.

We are all fighting against sin, but there are sins that seem difficult to overcome. This is because we have not seriously considered our fight or are using the wrong weapons or inappropriately.

This is not a book of "how to overcome sin in 24 hours" or "free from sin forever", but on the contrary, it is a book that first shows us sin from a theological perspective, followed by a confrontation towards us about the condition of our heart. Do we really want to follow our Lord and fight against sin?

The book is divided into three parts:
The first one talks about sin in a theological way. Please do not skip this part, as it is very important.
The second part confronts us and makes us see, what is our focus in life, who is our Lord and what we truly love.
Finally, the author shows us ideas to fight sin in a biblical way and in dependence on the grace of God. Because sin, we can not overcome it in our own strength.

It is a book that confronts and that consoles. A necessary reading in these times. Thank you P & R Publishing for the digital copy to review.

I am grateful to net galley.com and P & R Publishing for an advance copy of this book.

This is a book about a big topic, a relatively short book for such an important topic but it is a great book. All of us struggle with sins and as the author points us most of dont struggle with big sins like murder or theft but there are little daily sins ingrained into our lives that are the sins we really struggle with.

This book has a clear three part structure and what I loved about this book was that it started out with understanding our sin properly. Once and only one we do that can we understand what it is that we are fighting against. After that the author moves on to give some practical insight into avoiding sins.

Throughout the book various vignettes are given which you may recognise some of your own besetting sins and probably if you are like more than one.

This book doesn't offer a quick help, be better, be more disciplined approach to sin rather through looking at sin seeks to point us to Jesus Christ.

The only reason you shouldn't read this book is if you have attained sinless perfection and i am guessing most of us haven't then we should all read this book.