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Contents
Preface:
Confronting the Sins We Tolerate by Jerry Bridges
9
Using This Guide:
Tips for Personal and Group Study
11
Session One:
Facing Up to the Truth
17
Session Two:
The Remedy for Sin
25
Session Three:
Ungodliness and Unthankfulness
33
Session Four:
Anxiety, Frustration, and Discontentment
41
Session Five:
Pride and Selfishness
49
Session Six:
Impatience, Irritability, and Anger
57
Session Seven:
Judgmentalism and Sins of the Tongue
67
Session Eight:
Lack of Self-Control, Envy, and Jealousy
75
Author
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F a c i n g U p t o t h e Tr u t h
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What’s Become of Sin?
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The very word, sin, which seems to
have disappeared, was once a proud
word. It was once a strong word, an
ominous and serious word. . . . But
the word went away. It has almost
disappeared — the word, along with
the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin
anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in
sin?
K ARL M ENNINGER
Whatever Became of Sin?*
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* Karl Menninger, MD, Whatever Became of Sin? (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1973), 14–15.
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State of Denial?
Even though our [believers’] hearts
have been renewed, even though
we have been freed from the absolute dominion of sin, even though
God’s Holy Spirit dwells within our
bodies, . . . sin still lurks within us
and wages war against our souls. It
is the failure to recognize the awful
reality of this truth that provides the
fertile soil in which our “respectable” or “acceptable” sins grow and
flourish.
Chapter 3, Respectable Sins
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