Every Man Is Being Hunted.

There are beasts in the tree line, and they have been tracking you for years.

Hunting Sin is a field guide for Christian men who are done being prey. Twelve beasts, each one with its field marks, tracks, tall tales from the trail, kill strategies, and Scripture ammo. Then the Apex Predator behind them all, and the One who already won the hunt.

Meet the beasts

The book cover of Hunting Sin, Volume One, by Jacob McCluskey and Jesse Wilbur: a monstrous beast built from every beast in the book, between rows of field gear.

Trail cam print, 11:47 PM: a phone glowing face down on a nightstand.

Field Note:
Gen 4:7
God warned Cain before he struck.

Be killing sin, or it will be killing you.
John Owen, 1656

"If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it."Genesis 4:7

Know Your Quarry

Thirteen species in chapter order. Pick a medallion and pull its plate.

The Couch Bear

Ursus acedia

Never chases a man. It waits for him to sit down, then sits on him.

Key verseProverbs 24:30-34

SlothChapter 5, page 44

Tracks and Sign

You don't need a trail cam to know the Siren has been through. It leaves sign everywhere, and the man it's feeding on is usually the last one to read it.

"When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long" (Psalm 32:3).

Sign isn't a verdict. It's information. A man who reads it early still has time to change how this ends.

Scale chart from the Couch Bear chapter: a nine-foot bear standing behind an average man who has not turned around.

Trail cam print, CAM 2, 12:03 AM: blue light under a door at the end of a dark hall.

Calls:
Just a quick look.
No one will know.
Last time. Promise.

Trail cam print, CAM 2, 12:58 AM: a wet trail across the hall floor.

Wet sign. Something came up from the deep.

Hunter's Account

The hunters are made up. The beasts are real.

From the Lone Wolf chapter: a framed picture of a house with a moat and a chained drawbridge, a newspaper clipping reading Local Man Digs Moat, and a field note reading Moat: 6 ft deep. Loneliness: deeper.

Field reports on Dale Pruitt begin the week he skipped men's breakfast because he was tired. The next week he skipped it because he'd been tired the week before. By March he had rented a backhoe.

The moat went in over a long weekend, six feet deep, all the way around the house. He hinged the old barn door for a drawbridge and chained it up. When his buddy Ray drove out to check on him, Dale waved from the porch through binoculars. Ray waved back. That's as close as they've gotten.

The church sent a casserole. It's still sitting by the mailbox and has developed its own weather.

Inside the Guide

This isn't a book you read once and put on a shelf. It's a field guide. Carry it, mark it up, and come back to it when the tracks show up again.

Every species chapter follows the same trail:

The beast's intro and plate
Sin Unmasked
Identification
Tracks and Sign
Field Notes from Scripture
A Hunter's Account
Examine Yourself
A Kill Strategy
A Hunter's Log to fill in

Field Warning: It never sleeps.

Page 48, Tracks and Sign: a framed overgrown field, a clipping reading Field Lost to Thorns, and a field note.

Page 40, Picking Your Buddy: four portraits labeled The Yes-Man, The Judge, The Ghost and The Real Thing.

Page 63, Perimeter Defense: a house floor plan drawn as a camp map.

Page 122, The Buck That Grew: a chart of one spike buck growing with every telling.

Bring a pen. This book is meant to be written in.

The Apex Predator: a man at a table by lamplight, and on the cabin wall behind him a shadow built from every beast in the book.

The Beast Behind Every Beast

It wears your face, and only the cross can kill it.

Homo vetusLaid aside. Check again tomorrow.

A man walks up a frosted hill at sunrise toward an empty rugged cross, carrying an empty coat.

Every Trail Ends on This Hill

"When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him" (Colossians 2:15).

This chapter is for the man who has walked up this hill a hundred times, and for the man who never has. Same cross. Same open arms.

Coming Soon

Grab Your Bible. Grab a Buddy.

The hunt starts now.

About the Author

Jacob McCluskey served in the U.S. Navy, came home, and found that coming home was harder than going. He spent years strong in all the ways that don't count and hollow everywhere else, until Christ pulled him out of the pit.

He lives in North Dakota. Find his books, a free guided prayer, and a weekly letter for the man on watch at jakemccluskey.com.