Deliver Me

Richard Exley approaches temptation the way a good pastor does — honestly, without condemnation, and with genuine hope for the reader. The seven-stage model of how spiritual failures accumulate through small compromises is the book's real contribution, giving readers a diagnostic framework rather than just a list of rules. Thomas Nelson published it in the Christian living tradition, and it reads like a conversation with a trusted mentor. The discussion of sexual temptation is frank but handled pastorally, not pruriently. Some readers may wish the seven stages applied more evenly across the full range of temptation rather than tilting toward sexual sin. And the framework can feel a little schematic. But for an adult Christian who wants something practical rather than merely inspirational, this is worth the read.