If the old you is dead, why does he keep showing up?
You have been born again, and you know it. You have also fallen into the same habits so many times that you have started calling yourself "just a sinner saved by grace," and you have wondered whether this is as good as the Christian life gets.
New Creation, Old Habits shows you from Scripture what really happened when you were born again. Your spirit was made brand new, but your soul and your body were trained for years by a man who no longer lives there. The habits outlived the man, and that is why you still struggle. It is not because you are still a sinner.
How it works
- Find where the coat pulls. Take the free four-minute Old Coat Assessment and see the one area where old patterns pull hardest on you right now.
- Read the book. About 150 pages, written to be read in a week. It shows you from Scripture what died, what did not, and why the habits are still there.
- Walk it out for 21 days. A short passage, a way to receive, a declaration and one question each day, about fifteen minutes in all.
I know the shape of that coat
I was born again at eighteen. Two people from a church connected to an event at the California State Capitol called Hope Sacramento invited me, and the day after that event I went to church with them. When I got home, I was standing in a trailer in my backyard, already high, and I felt God tell me to trust Him. So I stood there and prayed:
"God, I can't promise You that I will never do this again, but I promise You that I won't do it today. I'm taking one step toward You, and I need You to take ten steps toward me."
I woke up different. I wanted the Bible, I wanted worship music, and I wanted to be in church. But a lot of my old habits did not leave that night. I still looked away from the mirror, I still carried the idea that people found me annoying, and I still served at church so that people would see me. I did not need a new set of rules. I needed to understand what had died, what had not, and how the new me was supposed to grow.
The coat on the peg
Think about an old work coat that someone has worn every day for years. When he finally takes it off and hangs it on a peg, it does not fall flat. The elbows are still bent, the shoulders are still rounded, and the whole thing still holds the shape of the man who wore it, even though there is nobody inside it anymore.
That is what your old habits are. They are the shape the old man left behind in your flesh. The man is gone, and this book is about how that shape finally loses its hold.
Inside, you will discover
- Why your flesh is not your old man, and why that one difference changes everything
- Why you were never meant to fight your own flesh
- Why Jesus did not just die for you. He died as you.
- Why trying harder keeps you stuck, and what grows you instead
- Why sin is not inevitable for a born-again believer
- How to starve the old patterns instead of fighting them
- How to walk it out in 21 days, one short step a day
Part One · The Man Who Died
Why you are not a sinner saved by grace, where your old nature came from, and why Jesus did not just die for you but died as you.
Part Two · Why the Old You Still Shows Up
Spirit, soul, and body; why your flesh still remembers what the old man trained it to do; and the difference between the feelings of your soul and the fruit of your spirit.
Part Three · How the New You Grows
Why you cannot strive your way there, the Teacher who lives in you, the incorruptible seed, and how praying in tongues, fasting, worship, and the Word starve the old patterns and grow what God planted in you.
Part Four · Living From Who You Are
Why you do not have to fall, and what changes when you stop living like a servant and start living like a son or daughter.
- A 21-day plan to walk it out, one short day at a time
- A discussion guide for small groups, arranged in seven sessions
- Fifteen diagrams that make the teaching simple to see
This is not a book about trying harder. It is about taking off the coat and living as the person God already made you.
The book itself
These photos are renders of the final print design.
Look inside
These are real pages from the book, exactly as they will be printed. Tap any page to read it.
Hear the opening in my voice
The book opens with a letter to the believer who still feels like a sinner. Listen to the first five minutes.
Everything that comes with the book
The paperback takes about two weeks to print and reach you. You don't have to wait for it. Everything below comes free with your copy, and most of it is ready the night you order.
See inside the app. The whole book, the 21-day journal you type into, the toolkit and the daily audio, on your phone. It saves as you go and works offline.
It opens the night you order, with the code printed in your copy.
"I'm not a reader." "I can't wait two weeks."
Start Tonight Ready the night you order
- The New Creation, Old Habits app: the book, the journal and the toolkit on your phone, even offline
- The full audiobook, read by me (about four hours, at launch)
- The ebook, PDF and EPUB, to read tonight
- Day 1, ready to press play
"I'll read it and forget it." "I won't know what to do each day."
The 21-Day Walk-It-Out System Only with the book
- The 21-Day Walk-It-Out Journal: every day laid out, nothing to plan
- The daily audio: a short track for each day in my voice
- The 7-day starter emails, matched to your quiz profile
Hear Day 1 in my voice
Every day page has a code you can scan with your phone to hear that day's passage, declaration and question read by me. This is Day 1.
Hear Day 1 in my voice
Every day page has a code you can scan to hear that day's passage, declaration and question.
"The lie sounds true in the moment."
Say It Back Only with the book
- 21 declaration cards to cut out and carry
- 21 phone wallpapers, one declaration for each day
"Every plan says pray in tongues, and I haven't received." "I've never fasted."
Feed the New Man Only with the book
- Ask the Father: receiving the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues
- Your First Fast: where to start and what it is for
- The Four Ways to Receive, one rhythm on one page
"I'll fall on Day 9 and quit."
When the Coat Pulls Only with the book
- The Same-Day Reset: six steps to get up the same day, without penance
- The Loop Map: name the trigger, the craving and the old reward, so you can starve it
"I'm doing this alone." "I want my group to do it."
Walk It Out Together Only with the book
- The seven-session discussion guide at the back of the book
- A free assessment to send a friend, so you start from the same place
"How will I know anything changed?"
See What Changed Only with the book
- Your New Creation Profile, and the Day 21 retake side by side
- A Day 30 letter from me with the next step
All of it, with the book
The audiobook, the ebook, the journal, the daily audio, the toolkit, the wallpapers and the 21-day plan. None of it is sold anywhere else.
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Guarantee
Walk the 21 days. If nothing changed, you get every cent back.
Walk the 21 days. Retake the assessment on Day 21. If you can't name one thing that changed, email me and I'll refund every cent. Keep the book and everything that came with it.
Why the price is so low
The price mostly covers printing the book and shipping it to you. The audiobook, the ebook, the journal and everything else are digital, so they cost nothing extra to send, and they come with your copy.
Questions people ask
Does this book teach that a Christian can never sin?
No. It teaches that your born-again spirit cannot sin (1 John 3:9), so for you sin is no longer inevitable, while your soul and your body are still being retrained. It does not ask you to strive for a perfect life, because striving is the very thing Chapter 7 takes apart.
Isn't this just "try harder"?
It is the opposite. Chapter 7 is called "You Can't Strive Your Way There." The change comes from receiving what God already put in you, through praying in tongues, fasting, worship, and the Word, from starving the old patterns, and from renewing your mind.
I have never prayed in tongues. Is this still for me?
Yes, and it may be the most important chapter for you. The book teaches praying in tongues as the gift that builds up your spirit from the inside, alongside fasting, worship, and the Word. If you have not received it, ask the Father for it, because Jesus said He gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him (Luke 11:13). If you have received it, use it, and use it daily.
My church teaches that tongues ended. Is this for me?
This book teaches that praying in tongues is for believers today and shows you the verses (Acts 2:4, 1 Corinthians 14:4, Jude 20). If you're settled that it ended, Chapter 10 will argue with you, kindly. Everything else in the book stands on its own, and the list below says plainly who it is not for.
Isn't "you are not a sinner" arrogant, or a license to sin?
It's the opposite of a license. The book says the old man died so sin no longer has to rule you (Romans 6:6–7), and it gives you a same-day way back when you fall.
Is this one of those deliverance books?
No. Your old man isn't something to cast out. He's already dead (Romans 6:6). What's left is trained habit in the flesh, and the book shows you how to starve it.
I've never fasted. Is that a problem?
No. Chapter 11 starts you somewhere small: one meal, one day a week or one day a month. The length matters far less than the obedience, and Your First Fast in the toolkit walks you through it.
Can I take my small group through it?
Yes. The back of the book has a discussion guide in seven sessions, and everyone in the group can take the free assessment first so you all start from the same place.
When do I get the gifts?
The night you order. Your order email links to the gifts page, and the code printed in the front of the book unlocks them too. The audiobook arrives at launch.
Is my journal private in the app?
Yes. What you write in the app is saved only on your phone, with no account, and you can download a copy of it any time.
Which Bible does it use?
The King James Version. Where a verse is talking about your own born-again spirit rather than the Holy Spirit, the book prints "spirit" with a small s and explains why.
Is it for new believers?
Yes. It assumes you are born again, not that you have been saved for a long time. It explains every term as it goes, and the back of the book has a glossary and a field guide to the key words.
Is this a prosperity book?
No. It is about who you became when you were born again and how to live from that, not about money.
How is it different from a habits book?
Most habit books treat you as the same person learning new routines. This book starts with the new birth: the man who built those habits died, your spirit is new, and the habits are the shape he left behind in your flesh. That changes what you do about them.
What this book is not
- It is short on purpose. About 150 pages, so you can finish it and then spend your time walking it out.
- It is not a theology debate. It teaches from Scripture what happened when you were born again and does not spend chapters arguing with other views.
- The 21 days take real practice. About fifteen minutes a day. Reading alone will not take the coat off.
- It is not for you if you are settled on being "just a sinner saved by grace" and want a book that agrees sin is inevitable. This one will argue with you, kindly.
P.S. The book shows you what really died when you were born again. Everything that comes with it, from the audiobook and the journal to the 21-day plan, helps you walk it out. And if you walk the 21 days and can't name one thing that changed, the Old Coat Guarantee gives you every cent back.