Good News About Satan: A Gospel Look a Spiritual Warfare

When you know a story ends in joy or 'happily ever after', the struggles, battles, pitfalls, and brokenness of the main characters along the way tend to lose their fangs. Knowing victory and that the future is everything wrong being put to right can cast away anxiety and despair. The book of Revelation ends the story of the Bible with the great hero and King defeating our great enemy, Satan, once and for all (Rev. 20:7). Bob Bevington has reminded us of this gospel truth in "Good News About Satan" . Life is no fairy tale, and no one needs to read a book to know it is a real and hard daily existence much more like a war zone than a playground. But in this accessible, readable, and winsome work Bevington helps us to recognize the limitations, weapons, maneuvers, and allies of our enemy. And the glorious fact that Jesus Christ is victorious allows us the freedom to take courage and heart; we may have this enemy like a prowling lion seeking to devour us, but we have an even greater savior who gave us his armor and the pronouncement that it is really and truly "finished." We are his. But just like the Battle of New Orleans was still fought after the treaty of Ghent had been signed ending the War of 1812, we still are engaged in such a battle against spiritual forces and a serious enemy. I strongly recommend and encourage all believers to help equip their Christian living and understanding of spiritual warfare by reading "Good News About Satan." Many thanks to the author and Cruciform Press for making this available!

I read this book for a small study group. It's the best book on spiritual warfare I've ever read. Bob Bevington "quotes only one source : God's Word, the Bible". It is easy to read and understand. There are no scare tactics and satan is not made bigger than who he is. God is bigger and Jesus Christ has already defeated satan! This book focuses on the Good News that in Christ we are victorious!

This author has given a refined, Biblical exposition on the subject matter of satan, demons, spiritual warfare and Christ’s victory. The author avoids reaching beyond scripture and does an excellent job of presenting the biblical information. The information is meant to be acted upon, thus the author gives several lists of practical application in each chapter. I highly recommend it to any follower of Jesus.

No one gets though life without temptations, tests and spiritual warfare. The Good News About Satan, by Bob Bevington is practical, easy to understand. The author takes us to the bible to demystify the subject of spiritual warfare and he give us weapons to fight. I think this book would make a great group study and everyone should read it.

Bob Bevington has served the kingdom of Jesus by providing a succinct and helpful explanation of the battle zone we're all in. If the Devil is a liar the truth is essential. This little book plants the feet of Christ followers in the Word of God.

This is the Biblical type book that I can hang on to. The author did a great job of explaining the scripture of spiritual warfare much better than other types of books along the same lines.

Spiritual warfare is one of the most misunderstood aspects of Christian living today. The reasons for this area many. You and I live in a culture that emphasizes spirituality from a secular worldview. In this culture truth is often relegated to how we feel. Thus everyone is spiritual or religious. This is one of the reasons New Age spirituality and Eastern Mysticism are so popular today. It’s easy to accept religion if it’s according to how we feel and not according to truth. After all no one wants to be told what to believe. No one wants to coerce anyone into believing anything. Or so our culture believes. Yet false religion always tickles men’s ears and leads them away from God. Instead, our culture preaches a watered down gospel. The truth is that the Christian life is one of war. Christianity is not your best life today, but rather is a life of peace with God and spiritual war against a real but vanquished foe in the world, the flesh, and the devil. All of this is reason to be thankful for the work of Bob Bevington with his latest book Good News About Satan A Gospel Look at Spiritual Warfare.The book seeks to look at spiritual warfare in the first five chapters by recognizing the kingdom of darkness, their allies, weapons, limitations, and maneuvers. In chapter six, Bob considers how Jesus is victorious over Satan and His kingdom through His death, burial, and resurrection. Chapter seven teaches readers how to resist the devil. Chapter eight looks at helping the demonized, and then in chapter nine explores the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ. The book concludes with two appendixes looking at learning from Satan’s names and verses to memorize when engaging in spiritual warfare.This book is very needed. Often times Christian books on spiritual warfare teach things that the Bible doesn’t teach. There are few books on this topic that I recommend and Bob’s is one of them. Bob’s teaching is clear, biblical, and helpful. The best Christian books are biblical, practical, and personal. This book classifies in this category which is why I highly recommend you pick it up. This book will teach you the Bible’s teaching on this topic, and how to engage in spiritual warfare to the glory of God. As I’ve mentioned the Christian life is one of war. We are both saints and sinners. Saint in our position and sinners in that we have not yet been perfected. The Christian life in other words is an already not yet. We are saved and yet our salvation has not yet been completed. The reality of our war is all around us. This is why we are to take up the armor of God as outlined in Ephesians 6. This is also why you should heed Bob’s teaching of the Word. God uses saints who love His Word and earnestly seek after His righteousness. Bob is such a saint and he faithfully exposits the text with a clear view to help and edify the saints so they may be holy, happy, and effective servants of the Risen Christ.This excellent book will help new and seasoned Christians to grow in their understanding of God’s Word and the reality of spiritual warfare all around them. This would be an excellent book to use for Sunday school or for small groups to go through. This book could also be used by pastors in their study on spiritual warfare. Bloggers and writers could also take up this book and use the material and quote from it in their writing. I highly recommend this book and pray the Lord would use this book powerfully to awaken slumbering Christians to the truth that all around them a war wages for the salvation of the lost.

There is a plethora of books in the market on how to engage in spiritual warfare and put to death the deeds of the flesh. The ones that focus on Satan tend, in my experience, to be imbalanced and wide of the Bible's teaching. Bob Bevington's book has an intruiging title. Bevington starts with the thesis (completely Biblical) that Satan is a defeated though active enemy of God's people. He then looks in some detail at Satan's goal and the devices he uses to fulfil this goal.It is a well written, Biblical book, extremely clear in style with no frills to it. Bevington's examination of Satan and his devices is meticuliously Biblical and therefore very helpful. He also has a chapter on how to help someone who is demon possessed. It would have been helpful to include a discussion on whether Satanic and demonic activity was especially veciferous when Jesus was on earth and is less now. Also a discussion on demon possession in the Bible and demon possession today may have been helpful. Otherwise it is a fine, clear and helpful book.