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Spiritual Warfare: For the Care of Souls

Harold Ristau

Jesus Christ is the light that no darkness can overcome.

Spiritual warfare isn't always obvious. It's normally not scary or spooky; it's usually rather mundane. Yet it's real and always miraculous.

In Spiritual Warfare, Harold Ristau shows that faithful spiritual warfare isn't about secret methods and rituals. The good fight is fought with God's word, prayer, and worship. As the church preaches the forgiveness of sins, the darkness is pierced with the light of Christ and those in bondage are freed.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Lexham Press
  • Publish Date: Jan 25th, 2023
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.09in - 4.41in - 0.94in - 0.85lb
  • EAN: 9781683596219
  • Categories: Christian Living - Spiritual WarfareChristian Ministry - Pastoral ResourcesChristian Theology - Angelology & Demonology

About the Author

Harold Ristau (PhD, McGill University, Montreal) is associate professor of theology at Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary. He is a former chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces (2006-2017) and was deployed twice to Afghanistan. He is the author of At Peace with War, My First Exorcism, and When You Fast.
Harold L. Senkbeil is executive director emeritus of DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care. His pastoral experience of nearly five decades includes parish ministry, the seminary classroom, and parachurch leadership. He is author of numerous books, including award-winning The Care of Souls, Christ and Calamity, and Dying to Live.

Praise for this book

Drawing on the Scriptures as God's word, the wisdom of the church, and his own pastoral experience, Ristau equips readers to discern the works of the devil clearly in the church and the world and encourages them to counter his ways confidently with the resources that Christ himself supplies.

--John W. Kleinig, emeritus lecturer, Australian Lutheran College


A tremendous spur to pondering and meditation, confession and thanksgiving, and living our daily lives in simple reliance on the invincible power of God.

--Michael A. G. Haykin, chair and professor of church history, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary