This book by Tim Chester (available as a free digibook from that link) is one I'd read once before as a confused fifteen-year-old struggling to properly engage with or enjoy life as a Christian, which in fairness continued to broadly define my habitual over-intellectualized theological education masquerading as a genuine spiritual life until relatively recently, or arguably is ongoing and will only be peeled back layer-by-layer of exactly the same basic lessons and then attempting, failing, againing, to put them into practice... It's a book about sin, redemption, hope, and has an incredibly challenging but helpful focus on observable patterns of behaviour as well as emphasising trying to listen to and respond with abundance of truth-reminders to our own thoughts and feelings. Having re-read it, personally I think it may be one of the most potent, emotionally and psychologically realistic, sinners'-life-affirming yet wholly-holiness-concerned Christian books I've read; and it is thoroughly and delightfully biblical. Anyone, pretty much, struggling with anything, I would recommend read this, as it takes you through a rigorous but generous questioning discernment process that unavoidably leads to practical considerations and may well spark the renewals in feeling, thinking, doing or being that you perhaps are held back from living life in fullness and joy by. This book is hard-hitting but sensitive, honest, and fundamentally rooted in the grace of a good & glorious God.
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