__John Mark Comer__ lives, works, and writes in the urban core of Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Tammy, and their three children: Jude, Moses, and Sunday. He is the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church and has a master's degree in biblical and theological studies from Western Seminary. As well as Live No Lies, John Mark is also the author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, My Name Is Hope, Loveology, and Garden City.

__With warmth and encouragement Pastor John Mark Comer, author of ECPA Bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, offers guidance and advice to help you recognise the lies and resist the forces that seek to steal your happiness, wholeness and holiness.__  
  
As Christians, we're all at war with three fierce adversaries of the soul that feed us deceptive ideas to harm our spiritual well-being: the world, the flesh and the devil. Live No Lies parses out the tactics, strengths and weaknesses of these enemies, giving you a clear battle plan and spiritual practices to outwit and overcome these evils.  
  
Skilfully weaving together uplifting wisdom and reassuring, practical guidance, this is a book for anyone looking for everyday disciplines to help them care for their soul. Live No Lies will equip you with all you need to make practices for resisting evil an active part of your spiritual formation, and leave you motivated to find happiness and peace in Jesus.  
  
The tug-of-war in your chest for wholeness? Those lies that sabotage your peace? It's time to identify them, and defeat them.

In Live No Lies, John Mark Comer offers spiritual practices and advice for finding happiness and peace by recognising and resisting evil in the world, the flesh and the devil.

"This is the book I've been waiting for and one of the most important books a follower of Jesus will ever read. It will become a classic."

"John Mark Comer is a gift to the church. He writes with adept cultural nuance, theological savvy, and refreshing spiritual depth. In Live No Lies, he's taken on a multilayered, ancient topic and brilliantly rearticulated it for our generation. This is a gem."

"If your soul feels depleted and beat up, Live No Lies is the book you need to pick up and read. Right now. It is brilliant, deep, scriptural, and will equip you to face the enemy and fight."

"In a time that feels full of contradictions and confusion, John Mark does a masterful job of laying out what is true, what true is, and why it matters deeply that we know the truth. This is the book for our day."

"I devoured every word of this book and found myself deeply stirred and nourished. John Mark speaks to the mind and soul, as he uncovers in his usual thoughtful way the three great enemies to our peace-the world, the flesh, and the devil. You will emerge better after reading these pages."

"Every day we are dealing with temptations in multiple forms that draw us away from faithfulness to the Way of Jesus. In this compelling work, John Mark gives a vision of the beauty of Jesus in a culture of lies."

"This book is a godsend. It exposes our spiritual enemy of untruth-a foe impacting our societies on a global scale. In a world where everyone tries to live their own 'truth,' this book reveals and challenges the many lies that have become common, normal, and accepted in our everyday conversations and decisions.."

"Comer has personally helped me on my faith journey and I believe he is one of the greatest teachers of our generation. As you read Live No Lies, your heart will be strengthened and your eyes opened to the daily war waged against our personal peace."

"In a time where deception seems to have settled upon the land like a dense fog, Live No Lies offers us a clearing to see how we have been deceived, to learn how we deceive ourselves, and to flee from the one who deceives. An essential guide for discernment in our contested age."

Contents

xiii The war on lies

xix A manifesto for exile

Part 1: The devil

5 The truth about lies

23 Ideas, weaponized

49 Dezinformatsiya

71 And having done all, to stand

Part 2: The flesh

105 The slavery of freedom

125 "Their passions forge their fetters"

145 The law of returns

167 So I say, live by the Spirit

Part 3: The world

195 The brutal honesty about normal

221 A remnant

245 Epilogue: Self-denial in an age of self-fulfillment

259 Appendix: A monastic handbook for combating demons

263 Thank yous

267 Notes

John Mark Comer

The war on lies

A manifesto for exile

Part 1: The devil

The truth about lies

Ideas, weaponized

Dezinformatsiya

And having done all, to stand

Part 2: The flesh

The slavery of freedom

“Their passions forge their fetters”

The law of returns

So I say, live by the Spirit

Part 3: The world

The brutal honesty about normal

A remnant

Epilogue: Self-denial in an age of self-fulfillment

Appendix: A monastic handbook for combating demons

Thank yous

Notes

With warmth and encouragement Pastor John Mark Comer, author of ECPA Bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, offers guidance and advice to help you recognise the lies and resist the forces that seek to steal your happiness, wholeness and holiness.

As Christians, we’re all at war with three fierce adversaries of the soul that feed us deceptive ideas to harm our spiritual well-being: the world, the flesh and the devil. Live No Lies parses out the tactics, strengths and weaknesses of these enemies, giving you a clear battle plan and spiritual practices to outwit and overcome these evils.

Skilfully weaving together uplifting wisdom and reassuring, practical guidance, this is a book for anyone looking for everyday disciplines to help them care for their soul. Live No Lies will equip you with all you need to make practices for resisting evil an active part of your spiritual formation, and leave you motivated to find happiness and peace in Jesus.

That tug-of-war in your chest for wholeness? Those lies that sabotage your peace? It's time to identify them, and defeat them.

\["Feel like peace is being taken away from you?","John Mark Comer helps you see what is robbing you of peace","Learn to defeat the things that rob you of real peace"\]

The war on lies

A manifesto for exile

__Part 1: The devil__

The truth about lies

Ideas, weaponized

Dezinformatsiya

And having done all, to stand

__Part 2: The flesh__

The slavery of freedom

“Their passions forge their fetters”

The law of returns

So I say, live by the Spirit

__Part 3: The world__

The brutal honesty about normal

A remnant

Epilogue: Self-denial in an age of self-fulfillment

Appendix: A monastic handbook for combating demons

Thank yous

267 Notes

“This is the book I’ve been waiting for and one of the most important books a follower of Jesus will ever read. It will become a classic.”—__Christine Caine, founder of A21 and Propel Women__

“John Mark Comer is a gift to the church. He writes with adept cultural nuance, theological savvy, and refreshing spiritual depth. In Live No Lies, he’s taken on a multilayered, ancient topic and brilliantly rearticulated it for our generation. This is a gem.”—__Rich Villodas, lead pastor of New Life Fellowship and author of The Deeply Formed Life__

“If your soul feels depleted and beat up, Live No Lies is the book you need to pick up and read. Right now. It is brilliant, deep, scriptural, and will equip you to face the enemy and fight.”—__Jennie Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head and founder and visionary of IF:Gathering__

“In a time that feels full of contradictions and confusion, John Mark does a masterful job of laying out what is true, what true is, and why it matters deeply that we know the truth. This is the book for our day.”—__Annie F. Downs, New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun__

“I devoured every word of this book and found myself deeply stirred and nourished. John Mark speaks to the mind and soul, as he uncovers in his usual thoughtful way the three great enemies to our peace—the world, the flesh, and the devil. You will emerge better after reading these pages.”—__Bryan Loritts, author of Insider Outsider__

“Every day we are dealing with temptations in multiple forms that draw us away from faithfulness to the Way of Jesus. In this compelling work, John Mark gives a vision of the beauty of Jesus in a culture of lies.”—__Jon Tyson, pastor of Church of the City New York and author of The Intentional Father__

“This book is a godsend. It exposes our spiritual enemy of untruth—a foe impacting our societies on a global scale. In a world where everyone tries to live their own ‘truth,’ this book reveals and challenges the many lies that have become common, normal, and accepted in our everyday conversations and decisions..”—__Albert Tate, lead pastor of Fellowship Church__

“Comer has personally helped me on my faith journey and I believe he is one of the greatest teachers of our generation. As you read Live No Lies, your heart will be strengthened and your eyes opened to the daily war waged against our personal peace.”—__Rich Wilkerson Jr., pastor of VOUS Church__

“In a time where deception seems to have settled upon the land like a dense fog, Live No Lies offers us a clearing to see how we have been deceived, to learn how we deceive ourselves, and to flee from the one who deceives. An essential guide for discernment in our contested age.”—__Mark Sayers, senior leader of Red Church in Melbourne, Australia, and author of a number of books including Strange Days and Reappearing Church__

It shouldn't be this hard to find peace, should it? John Mark Comer's new book helps you identify and defeat the enemies standing between you and peace.

__John Mark Comer__ lives, works, and writes in the urban core of Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Tammy, and their three children: Jude, Moses, and Sunday. He is the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church and has a master’s degree in biblical and theological studies from Western Seminary. As well as Live No Lies, John Mark is also the author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, My Name Is Hope, Loveology, and Garden City.

__The bestselling author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry equips readers to recognize and resist the lies that seek to rob them of peace and freedom.__

We are at war. Not with a foreign government or domestic terrorists or a creepy new artificial intelligence hell-bent on taking over the world. No, it’s a war we feel deep inside our own chests: we are at war with lies.

The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them. We let them into our bodies, and they sabotage our peace. All around us in the culture and deep within our own body memories are lies: deceptive ideas that wreak havoc on our emotional health and spiritual well-being, and deceptive ideas about who God is, who we are, and what the good life truly is.

The choice is not whether to fight or not fight, but whether we win or surrender.

Ancient apprentices of Jesus developed a paradigm for this war; they spoke of the three enemies of the soul: the devil, the flesh, and the world. Live No Lies taps into this ancient wisdom from saints of the Way and translates the three enemies for the modern era, with all its secularism and sophistication. As a generation, we chuckle at the devil as a premodern myth, we are confused by Scripture’s teaching on the flesh in an age where sensual indulgence is a virtue not a vice, and we have little to no category for the New Testament concept of the world.

In this provocative and practical book, bestselling author John Mark Comer combines cultural analysis with spiritual formation. He identifies the role lies play in our spiritual deformation and lays out a strategic plan to overcome them.

Do you feel the tug-of-war in your own heart, the inner conflict between truth and lies? The spirit and the flesh? The Way of Jesus and the world? It’s time to start winning. It’s time to live no lies…

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