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When Good Men Are Tempted: Sexual Purity for Guys in the Real World

By Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins on temptation as the ordinary condition of good men rather than evidence of a bad one — practical strategy without the assumption that struggling means you are failing.

Information last checked: 2026-08-29
FORMATBook
PRICEPaid
TIMESeveral hours
BEST FORAdult Christian men
Directory overview

What it is

Bill Perkins's title carries the argument. A great deal of purity material implicitly treats temptation as a symptom of something wrong with the man experiencing it, which produces shame and shame produces concealment. Perkins starts from the opposite premise — good men are tempted, that is the normal condition, and the question is what you do next — and then gets practical about triggers, thought patterns, accountability and the structures that make failure less likely. Published by Zondervan, written for adult men, with a parallel edition for younger readers (When Young Men Are Tempted) also listed in your directory. Straightforward and encouraging rather than clinically deep; pair it with a root-cause book such as Unwanted if the pattern is entrenched.

What it may help with

  • I'm struggling with porn or sexual sin

How to access it

Paperback and ebook (Zondervan) Purchase from a bookseller

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