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This revised and updated version of Ordering Your Private World comes with a small group discussion guide. The questions are far from trite and require some honesty and thought, but are an excellent resource for getting a group of people together to read the book and study its implications for their lives. It also provides an excellent framework for accountability in everything from pursuing God's dream for my life to spiritual disciplines to taking our walk with Jesus more serious each and every day.
Dr. Brand writes of both:
There is a sense in which a person's blood becomes more valuable and potent as that person prevails in numerous battles with outside invaders. . . . The blood of Jesus Christ has overcome. It is as if he went out of his way to expose himself to temptation, to encounter the stress and strain you and I will meet -- to gain wise blood for our benefit.
"Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May is a worthwhile read that examines the problems facing modern Western mankind through the lens of Existential Psychotherapy, a form of psychotherapy whose practitioners didn't just prescribe drugs for things like anxiety and loneliness, but believed that examining these issues at their root, uncovered people experiencing crisis's of being, or existing that was in conflict with the world around them.
Guys Aren’t the Only Ones Fighting a Battle for Purity.
The world you live in promotes sex as the answer to just about everything. The pressure to go along with the crowd is greater than ever before, and it’s easy to compromise in little ways that are a lot more harmful than they seem. You and your friends may become caught up in destructive relationships or sexual activities without even knowing how you got there.