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Setting Captives Free 365: How to Walk in Gospel Freedom Daily Month 1
True freedom begins wherever the gospel is embraced.
Sin enslaves. Shame isolates. Lies imprison. But the good news of Jesus Christ breaks chains, heals wounds, renews minds, and restores joy. These devotionals are designed to walk you step-by-step into the freedom Jesus purchased through His death and resurrection.
With daily Scripture, biblical illustrations, and practical implementation, you will learn how to fight temptation, expose the enemy’s lies, and experience transformation from the inside out.
Come take the journey—365 days of truth that will set you free.
Sin enslaves. Shame isolates. Lies imprison. But the good news of Jesus Christ breaks chains, heals wounds, renews minds, and restores joy. These devotionals are designed to walk you step-by-step into the freedom Jesus purchased through His death and resurrection.
With daily Scripture, biblical illustrations, and practical implementation, you will learn how to fight temptation, expose the enemy’s lies, and experience transformation from the inside out.
Come take the journey—365 days of truth that will set you free.
251 pages, Paperback
Published December 14, 2025
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February 8, 2026
Reframing a bad habit as a sin already defeated empowers a person in a way self-help books can’t.
I am coming to this book from a secular perspective. I frequently pick up faith-based self-help books because, frankly, they often work better than those based on psychology/science. This one was no exception! The minute you start reading, you know that you are going to be OK, that you are in good hands, that, in some way, you have already been helped/saved, and that there is a powerful, authoritative force fighting on your side.
The book offers 31 meditations on the scripture to help a reader struggling with daily temptations such as addiction, rage, envy, etc. This is 1 month worth of content. I understand that more is coming in subsequent books. Each meditation includes a theoretical introduction, a question for deeper thinking, an illustration using a biblical story, and implementation advice. The lessons are arranged logically, starting with the reader’s pre-Jesus baseline, then him or her receiving a new heart from Christ, growing and guarding it, etc. The idea as I understand it is to switch the fight with undesired behaviors from “white-knuckling” and relying on personal willpower to accepting and reinforcing the new identity of someone who is part of the force that had already won the fight.
The content is great! The Old Testament illustrations are amazing, vivid, very well written. The descriptions appeal to all 6 senses and show things rather than tell the reader about them. I especially liked the story about Moses on the hill. What a great metaphor for the sinner’s struggle! Another good one is that if a man is dead to sin, then, when the sin calls, there’s no one to answer the door. Simple, striking, and deep, something Jesus would say! Another great one is the analogy of a heart transplant recipient who is still taking pills for the condition of the old organ he no longer has.
Some of the advice has parallels in modern psychology: e.g., identity overcoming struggle; consistency over perfection; willpower not being very useful; importance of support structures; gratitude; manifestation/affirmations; endurance vs. enthusiasm; etc.
Generally, the idea of viewing a bad habit as a sin is very interesting. Science often tells us that behaviors we want to change (e.g., addiction) are diseases, often genetic. This takes agency away from us: there’s not much you can do if you had been cursed with a genetic predisposition to, e.g., substance misuse. But if it’s a sin, then, by definition, there is something you can and should do about it. So, paradoxically, this is actually empowering. And, it doesn’t have to be something as bad as addiction, rage, or sexual immorality. Even if you want to eat healthily and exercise more, reframing the behavior you want to change as a sin, a moral failing inconsistent with the identity of the follower of Jesus (e.g., sloth, gluttony) can actually help!
The print book quality is excellent. I love that it’s not too long, that the font is large, easy to read. Great cover design!
The author’s approach mainly focuses on internal meditation. I thought that for a Christian, especially a new one, church is really the center of everything (as “the living body of Christ”). I would consider adding some community-related activities, such as attending church service, volunteering, helping others in a similar situation, etc. This will also speak to reinforcing the sinner’s new identity.
As written/marketed, the book is primarily for people who are already familiar with Christ. E.g., the title mentions terms like “gospel” and “redeemer” that a non-Christian may not immediately relate to. As I understand, the author himself came to Jesus as a secular man in search for help (which, by the way, is a very powerful personal story!).
The Christian perspective in the book comes mainly from accepting that Christ died for the forgiveness of the believer’s sins. The author could have explored more Jesus’ moral teachings, e.g., those in the Sermon on the Mount: turning the other cheek, not seeing a log in own eye, loving your enemy, gauging out the wandering eye/cutting off the “sinning” hand, etc. These could be relevant to, e.g., someone struggling with rage, jealousy, or sexual immorality. Similarly, some of Jesus’ healings and exorcisms could have been used as illustrations: these could be seen as Jesus helping people out of their sinfulness through the power of their belief in him (e.g., the stories of the centurion’s slave and the bleeding woman). One Jesus’ quote that comes to my mind as particularly relevant to the book is putting a new patch on old cloth or pouring new wine into an old bag. In this paradigm, a man is failing to change his unproductive behaviors (new patch) by himself (old cloth). Once he is with Christ (new cloth), this becomes achievable.
A large part of the book is devoted to a reformed sinner’s continued struggle with his vices after he’d accepted Christ. Jesus’ parable of a demon returning into a clean house with doubled malice could be mentioned in this context. Our Lord’s prayer talks prominently about temptation and “the evil one.”
I would definitely recommend the book, both to those who have already found Jesus and to those who have not.
I am coming to this book from a secular perspective. I frequently pick up faith-based self-help books because, frankly, they often work better than those based on psychology/science. This one was no exception! The minute you start reading, you know that you are going to be OK, that you are in good hands, that, in some way, you have already been helped/saved, and that there is a powerful, authoritative force fighting on your side.
The book offers 31 meditations on the scripture to help a reader struggling with daily temptations such as addiction, rage, envy, etc. This is 1 month worth of content. I understand that more is coming in subsequent books. Each meditation includes a theoretical introduction, a question for deeper thinking, an illustration using a biblical story, and implementation advice. The lessons are arranged logically, starting with the reader’s pre-Jesus baseline, then him or her receiving a new heart from Christ, growing and guarding it, etc. The idea as I understand it is to switch the fight with undesired behaviors from “white-knuckling” and relying on personal willpower to accepting and reinforcing the new identity of someone who is part of the force that had already won the fight.
The content is great! The Old Testament illustrations are amazing, vivid, very well written. The descriptions appeal to all 6 senses and show things rather than tell the reader about them. I especially liked the story about Moses on the hill. What a great metaphor for the sinner’s struggle! Another good one is that if a man is dead to sin, then, when the sin calls, there’s no one to answer the door. Simple, striking, and deep, something Jesus would say! Another great one is the analogy of a heart transplant recipient who is still taking pills for the condition of the old organ he no longer has.
Some of the advice has parallels in modern psychology: e.g., identity overcoming struggle; consistency over perfection; willpower not being very useful; importance of support structures; gratitude; manifestation/affirmations; endurance vs. enthusiasm; etc.
Generally, the idea of viewing a bad habit as a sin is very interesting. Science often tells us that behaviors we want to change (e.g., addiction) are diseases, often genetic. This takes agency away from us: there’s not much you can do if you had been cursed with a genetic predisposition to, e.g., substance misuse. But if it’s a sin, then, by definition, there is something you can and should do about it. So, paradoxically, this is actually empowering. And, it doesn’t have to be something as bad as addiction, rage, or sexual immorality. Even if you want to eat healthily and exercise more, reframing the behavior you want to change as a sin, a moral failing inconsistent with the identity of the follower of Jesus (e.g., sloth, gluttony) can actually help!
The print book quality is excellent. I love that it’s not too long, that the font is large, easy to read. Great cover design!
The author’s approach mainly focuses on internal meditation. I thought that for a Christian, especially a new one, church is really the center of everything (as “the living body of Christ”). I would consider adding some community-related activities, such as attending church service, volunteering, helping others in a similar situation, etc. This will also speak to reinforcing the sinner’s new identity.
As written/marketed, the book is primarily for people who are already familiar with Christ. E.g., the title mentions terms like “gospel” and “redeemer” that a non-Christian may not immediately relate to. As I understand, the author himself came to Jesus as a secular man in search for help (which, by the way, is a very powerful personal story!).
The Christian perspective in the book comes mainly from accepting that Christ died for the forgiveness of the believer’s sins. The author could have explored more Jesus’ moral teachings, e.g., those in the Sermon on the Mount: turning the other cheek, not seeing a log in own eye, loving your enemy, gauging out the wandering eye/cutting off the “sinning” hand, etc. These could be relevant to, e.g., someone struggling with rage, jealousy, or sexual immorality. Similarly, some of Jesus’ healings and exorcisms could have been used as illustrations: these could be seen as Jesus helping people out of their sinfulness through the power of their belief in him (e.g., the stories of the centurion’s slave and the bleeding woman). One Jesus’ quote that comes to my mind as particularly relevant to the book is putting a new patch on old cloth or pouring new wine into an old bag. In this paradigm, a man is failing to change his unproductive behaviors (new patch) by himself (old cloth). Once he is with Christ (new cloth), this becomes achievable.
A large part of the book is devoted to a reformed sinner’s continued struggle with his vices after he’d accepted Christ. Jesus’ parable of a demon returning into a clean house with doubled malice could be mentioned in this context. Our Lord’s prayer talks prominently about temptation and “the evil one.”
I would definitely recommend the book, both to those who have already found Jesus and to those who have not.
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