Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Why We Fail

1. Our Righteousness Can’t Do It
2. Imprisoned for Mercy
3. Imputed Righteousness
4. How I Lost My Devotional Life or If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
5. Legalism Arouses Sinful Passions
6. Satisfied with Jesus

Making Grace Work for You

7. What Is Grace?
8. Determining the Actual Source of Teaching
9. Feelings of Perishing
10. Daily Filling
11. What Is Forgiveness?

Finding Acceptance

12. Working Definitions for Justification and Sanctification
13. The Up-and-Outer vs. the Down-and-Outer
14. Pharisees
15. Grace and Truth
16. Antinomian Accusations

Self-Disclosure and God

17. Sinless Perfection
18. Be Yourself with God
19. Transparency
20. Five and Five
21. Guilt-Free Living: Part 1
22. Guilt-Free Living: Part 2
23. Guilt-Free Living: Part 3
24. Coming to Jesus with Mixed Motives
25. Transformation in Motives
26. Inferior Motives: Fear of Punishment and Desire for Reward
27. Fixing Unbelief

Can We Fix Ourselves?

28. Sanctification Does Not Cause Justification
29. Fixing Your Flesh? Part 1
30. Fixing Your Flesh? Part 2
31. Fixing Your Flesh? Part 3
32. If My Old Man Is Dead, Why Is He Making So Much Noise?
33. Suicide by Crucifixion?
34. Spiritual Hypochondria

Toward Recovery

35. Repentance Is a Gift: Part 1
36. Repentance Is a Gift: Part 2
37. Repentance Is a Gift: Part 3
38. The Holy Spirit
39. The Holy Spirit Works through Grace
40. You Are Ready
41. Prophetic Hunger
42. Perspective on Gifts of the Holy Spirit
43. Worshippers or Workers?
44. The Fruit of the Spirit in an Environment for Growth
45. Tiny Faith, Enormous Results
46. Defending Ourselves: Part 1
47. Defending Ourselves: Part 2
48. Defending Ourselves: Part 3
49. When You Sin, Run to Me

Breaking Out of Legalism

50. Legalism or Faith?
51. Legalism: Becoming like the Most High
52. There Is Nothing New in the New Age Deception
53. Obedience Is Better than Sacrifice
54. Conviction vs. Condemnation

Guilt-Free Churches

55. No Shotgun Wedding
56. Strange Fire
57. Clay Pots
58. Majoring in the Majors

Approaching the Law with Grace

59. The Law Is Mercy
60. Why the Father Doesn’t Always Explain Why
61. The Law as a Diagnostician

Jesus plus Nothing

62. "If"
63. "In"
64. "Abide"
65. Who Is Jesus?
66. How to Let Jesus Be Your Righteousness
67. The Bathtub Revival
68. Pray Effectively
69. Pray Boldly
70. "Lord, If You Loved Me You Would. . ."
71. The Father Loves You As Much As He Loves Jesus
72. "If... Then" or "Yea and Amen"
73. Jesus Himself Is the Armor of God

Confident Living

74. The Security of the Believer
75. How Grace Works: The Worst Possible Scenario
76. Laughter: An Ultimate Weapon

Radical Forgiveness

77. How You Can Be Smarter than the Devil
78. Forgiving Others
79. The Forgiveness of Sally
80. Still Having Trouble Forgiving?
81. Reconciliation and Restitution

Correction without Rejection

82. You Don’t Need a Thorn in the Flesh
83. The Suffering Approach to Spiritual Maturity
84. How God Our Father Disciplines Us
85. You Can’t Drive Your Car to Hawaii
86. Count the I's
87. You Can’t Have It Both Ways Or Can You?
88. Hand in Hand, Not Hand in Glove
89. Naturally Supernatural
90. Faith without Works Is Dead

Redeeming Your Emotions

91. Self-Talk
92. Emotions
93. A Word of Balance on Emotions

Stumbling Blocks to Grace Living

94. Significant Friendships and Sanctification
95. I Shall Not Want
96. Deeds Worthy of Death
97. How Much Is Enough?

The Grace Commission

98. Ripe Fruit or No Fruit
99. Motives for Evangelism
100. Blasting
101. Power
102. Eternal Hell Exists Because God Is Good
103. God’s Marines
104. Mobilizing the Unworthy

Seeing Him Changes You

105. What Is Your Concept of God?
106. Avoiding Failure or Seeking Success
107. He Alone Is Omnipresent
108. His Knowledge Is Infinite
109. Only He Is Self-Existent
110. Why Valid Formulas and Laws Don’t Always Work

God-based Living

111. Can You Walk on Water? Should You Walk on Water?
112. Don’t Sweat It
113. What Can You Learn from the Size of Your Bible?
114. How to Get into the Bible
115. Join the Body of Christ
116. Scars

God-based Character

117. Calvary Has No Rivals
118. Calling Sin Sin
119. The Fundamentals
120. Preaching Perfection vs. Preaching Redemption
121. Risk Taker
122. Grace: The Tender Trap
123. Where Do I Go from Here?

Notes

Appendix

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