Temptations Women Face: Honest Talk About Jealousy, Anger, Sex, Money, Food, Pride

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InterVarsity Press, 1993 M06 2 - 213 páginas
"Why am I so consumed with what's trivial instead of what's really important?" "When I feel like a failure, I look at somebody else and get so envious." "I know why I accumulate nice things and even nice people--to prove that I'm worth something." Mary Ellen Ashcroft knows firsthand about these thoughts and feelings. In this book she writes about where the needs and motivations of women come from, what temptations hook into these needs and how women can get beyond them. As women, she says, we can find ourselves tempted to fill our lives with things let our anger consume us focus on food or dieting believe distortions about sex get stuck in our dissatisfaction Ashcroft maintains that we should look honestly at our temptations and ask what they tell us about ourselves. She believes that God's intention is not simply that we avoid, resist or flee temptation, but that we use it to fire our spiritual growth in areas of life we have neglected. Temptations Women Face shows the way through each temptation and helps us day by day to build a life pleasing to God.

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PartI WHATS THE PROBLEM?
13
Legends Findings
15
Temptation Sin from a Womans Perspective
25
TRYING TO FILL THE ACHING GAP
35
Trusting Externals to Make Us Feel Good
37
Filling Our Lives with Things
51
Focusing on Food
69
Filling Our Lives with the Trivial
85
Getting Stuck in Our Dissatisfaction
143
BUILDING A HOLY LIFE
157
A Quick Fix or a Holy Life
159
Legalism or License
169
Being Real with Ourselves Others God
179
Responsible Belonging in a Community of Faith
187
Epilogue
199
AppendixPrayers of Confession
203

Letting Our Anger Consume Us
101
Believing Distortions about Intimacy
115
Believing Distortions about Sex
129

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Mary Ellen Ashcroft is college chaplain and professor of English at Kalamazoo Christian College (Michigan). She has previously taught at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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