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Today's Christian men are bombarded with sexual temptations from
the Internet, television, movies, and the whole sensually
explicit culture. In Manhood: Navigating the Mind Fields,
Peter Pritchard offers thirty-one daily devotional readings for
men seeking victory over temptation and concerned with producing
lives of greater purity of thought and action.Unlike many
365-day devotional books, this series of thirty-one men's
devotionals may be read in one month or repeated monthly around
the year. Male mental and moral purity requires personal and constant
devotion to God, a deep commitment to the Scriptures, and a
conscious decision to bring the mind under subjection to Jesus
Christ.
The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, which is used in one of
the devotionals, has become a metaphor for the spiritual and
behavioral struggle in many men's lives. Much as Joseph resisted
the brazen propositions of Potiphar's wife, today's Christian
men must resist sexual temptation and learn to say, "How then
could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?" (Genesis
39:9).
Peter Pritchard has been an executive recruiter for over twenty
years, and has concurrently been a servant-leader in the church
as a deacon, elder, and associate pastor. Since receiving Christ
at age fourteen, he has always had a burden for bringing others
to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In 1999, he
graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from Ashland
Theological Seminary in Ohio, and was ordained to the ministry
the following morning. He and his wife Junie were married in
1981 and have four children.
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