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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE PURITY WAR:

A BIBLICAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN AN IMMORAL WORLD

By Dr. James M. Cecy

 

What Others Are Saying About This Book

Dedication

A Word to Parents, Pastors, & Other Understandably Sensitive People

A Word from the Author

Introduction

PART ONE: THE NEED

Chapter 1 The Land is Full of Adulterers

Chapter 2 Killing Spiders. Preventing Fires

Chapter 3 Commands, Not Suggestions

Chapter 4 Because . . . Just Because

 

PART TWO: GOD’S DESIGN

Chapter 5 Sex Really is God’s Idea

Chapter 6 What is This Feeling Anyway?

Chapter 7 Covenantal Oneness

Chapter 8 Restorative Oneness

Chapter 9 Sacred Oneness

Chapter 10 Procreational Oneness

Chapter 11 Physical and Emotional Oneness

Chapter 12 Spiritual Oneness

Chapter 13 Recreational Oneness

Chapter 14 Rules for the Marriage Bed

Chapter 15 Sex and the Single Person

 

PART THREE: MAN’S ABUSES

Chapter 16 Missing the Target

Chapter 17 Lustful Thoughts and Immoral Behaviors

Chapter 18 Filling the Bucket One Grain at a Time

Chapter 19 Walk into My Parlor

Chapter 20 Step #1 Faltering in the Search for Biblical Wisdom

Chapter 21 Step #2 Failing in the Development of the Marriage Relationship

Chapter 22 Step #3 Fantasizing in the Arena of the Mind

Chapter 23 Step #4 Flirting with the Forbidden World of Seduction

Chapter 24 Step #5 Falling into the Trap of Immorality

Chapter 25 It Better Be Worth It

 

PART FOUR: THE WAY OF ESCAPE

Chapter 26 It is a Winnable War

Chapter 27 Line of Defense #1: Guarding My Mind

Chapter 28 Protecting My Mind

Chapter 29 Provisioning My Mind

Chapter 30 Purifying My Mind

Chapter 31 Preparing My Mind

Chapter 32 Line of Defense #2: Guarding My Body

Chapter 33 Presenting My Body

Chapter 34 Promising My Body

Chapter 35 Protecting My Body

Chapter 36 Line of Defense #3: Guarding My Companions

Chapter 37 Praying for My Companions

Chapter 38 Protecting My Companions

Chapter 39 Confronting My Companions

 

PART FIVE: THE WAY BACK

Chapter 40 A Word to the Wounded and Fallen

Chapter 41 The A.C.T.S. of Repentance

Chapter 42 David’s Story Tops Them All

 

PART SIX: THE WAY FORWARD

Chapter 43 From “What?” to “So What?” to “Now What?”

 

STUDY GUIDE

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Personal Accountability Program

 

APPENDICES

Masturbation: Chief of Sins or Gift of God?

Suggested Reading on Moral Purity and Biblical Sexuality

Special Thanks

About the Author

Notes

Scripture Index

 

Subject Index (including Foreign Word Index)

 

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