Combat faith /
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Author / Creator: | Lindsey, Hal |
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Imprint: | Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1986. |
Description: | 238 p. ; 21 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/799808 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Hope for the Gathering Storm
- Will the Church Go Through a Great Persecution?
- Few Dare Call It Conspiracy!
- The Advent of an Age of Paranormal
- The Dawning of the "New Age Movement"
- The Religious Invasion from the East
- The New Age "Diets"
- The New Age and Physical Fitness
- The New Age Invasion of Education
- The New Age and Visualization
- The New Age and "Alternative Medicine"
- The Coming Collision
- The Communist Threat
- True Christians Are at Top of Communist Hit List
- The Need for a "Combat Faith"
- Chapter 2. The Many Facets of Faith
- God's Definition of Faith
- Being Sure of What We Hope For
- Being Certain of What We Do Not See
- Faith Is Object-Centered
- The Paradox of Faith
- No Faith, No Fellowship
- How Faith Relates to Grace
- Faith Is a Gift of God
- How Grace Relates to Works
- How Faith Relates to Good Works
- Faith Only Grows in the Atmosphere of Grace
- Faith-Rest: God's Base for Victorious Living
- Faithrest Operates Through a New World-View
- Flying By Instruments and the Divine Viewpoint
- Some Close Parallels
- The Faith-Rest Defined
- Chapter 3. Cracking the "Faith Barrier"
- Introduction to God's Rest
- The Meaning of God's Rest
- Our New Sabbath
- God's Faith Course No. 101
- Chapter 4. The Impact of Parents' Faith
- The Heritage of Faith
- Abraham's Greatest Sacrifice
- God's Commendation of Moses' Parents
- Encouragement for Today's Parents
- Concerning Teaching Children
- Chapter 5. An Act of Faith That Changed History
- Moses' Amazing Decision
- Source of Moses' Knowledge
- Who Was the Fool?
- Settling the Question of Whose Will
- Chapter 6. God's B.D. Degree
- Disciplined by Grace
- The Flight into Bootcamp
- How God Turned Failure into Blessing
- God's Forty-Year Seminary
- Nice Going God!
- God's Gracious Providence
- The Lost Forty Years
- A Lesson in Solitude
- The Principle of Broken Things
- Another Broken Vessel
- Principles of God's B.D. Degree
- A Different Kind of Man
- Chapter 7. Power Perfected in Weakness
- God Re-calls His Champion
- Any Old Bush Will Do, Moses!
- God's Glory in Earthen Vessels
- Moses! Moses!
- Moses Tries to "Chicken Out"
- Excuse No. 1. "I Don't Know Your Name"
- Excuse No. 2. "What If the Israelites Don't Believe God Sent Me?"
- Excuse No. 3. "I Am Not Eloquent"
- Lord, I Believe; Help My Unbelief!
- Keeping a Covenant and Busting a Marriage
- A Comforting Reunion
- Chapter 8. How Faith Humbled an Empire
- The Moses Who Returned
- Moses' First Confrontation with Pharaoh
- God's Strongest Promise
- Reasons for Delay
- Signs and Wonders in Judgment
- The Occult in Pharaoh's Court
- Israel's Great Liberation
- Chapter 9. The Passover: God's Drama of the Cross
- When the Humble Get Angry
- Humility Is Not Pacifism
- The Night a Nation Was Saved
- God's Perpetual Reminder to Israel
- Chapter 10. The Battle Is the Lord's
- The Miracle of Israel's Foretold History
- The Population of the Exodus
- The Lord's Strange Leading
- Where's That Pillar Going Now?
- The Lord's Way of Leading
- Pharaoh Takes the Bait
- Israel's Glorious Opportunity--Fumbled!
- "Spiritual Geometry?"
- Moses Cracks the Faith Barrier
- When It's Wrong to Pray
- How One Man's Faith Saved a Nation
- The Baptism of Moses
- Moses' Reputation: From Hero to Bum to Hero
- Israel's 20/20 Hindsight Faith
- The Red Sea and You
- Chapter 11. Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
- The Curse of a Short Memory
- One of Life's Most Dangerous Addictions--Grumbling
- The "Wrong Kind of Water" Test
- Growing From Smaller to Greater Faith Exploits
- The Dynamics of Praise
- Faith Is Like a Muscle
- God's Solution for Bitterness--a Tree
- The Lord Who Heals
- Palm Springs of Sinai
- Chapter 12. The No Food, No Water Test
- Surprise! Surprise! ... Israel Gripes Again!
- The Sin of Looking Back
- The Worst Sin Christians Commit
- Promises for the Worry Addict
- The Sin the Lord Could Not Forgive
- Grace Upon Grace
- No Water
- A Smitten Rock That Became a Spring
- Some Sad Lessons
- Chapter 13. Grasshoppers or Giants?
- The Majority Report, Part 1
- The Minority Report, Part 1
- The Majority Report, Part 2
- You Are What God Says you Are!
- The Plague of the Human Viewpoint
- So What's New?
- The Minority Report, Part 2
- One Man and God Are a Majority!
- The Majority Is Usually Wrong!
- Upward to the Pinnacle of Faith
- True Intercessory Prayer
- Forgiven but Disqualified
- The Reward of Faith
- The True Fountain of Youth
- The Real Tragedy of It All
- Chapter 14. The Real War
- The Ancient Conflict
- The Beginning of Sorrows
- Like Begets Like
- The Great Cause of Human Suffering
- Why Man Was Created
- Satan Won the First Batle
- Round One
- Satan's Strategy
- God Has Won the Great Battle
- Is God Unfair?
- Chapter 15. The Weapons of Our Warfare
- Three-Dimensional Warfare
- The Filling of the Spirit, Our Source of Power
- Jesus Christ Is Our Model
- The War Against the Flesh, and the Filling of the Spirit
- The Indwelling of the Spirit
- The Filling of the Spirit and Spiritual Gifts
- The Filling of the Spirit and Maturity
- The Filling of the Spirit Is Not a Mutual Assistance Program
- Why the Believer Can Never Be Condemned
- Two Principles of Life Contrasted
- How to Be Filled With the Spirit
- The War Against the Devil
- Our Strength
- Intelligence Report on Our Enemy
- Checking Out Our Armor
- The Belt of Truth
- The Breastplate
- The Shoes
- The Shield
- The Helmet
- Our Sword
- Prayer, Our Heavy Artillery
- Having Prepared, Be Ready to Fight!
- Combating the World-System
- The Battle for Our Affections
- Worldliness Defined
- The Delicate Line
- Final Briefing
- Chapter 16. Why Do Christians Have Trials?
- Need We Fear Trials?
- Do Committed and Spiritual People Have Trials?
- God's Love for Each Believer
- The Eternal Perspective
- I.. Discipline for Sin
- The Discipline of Divine Love
- Discipline versus Punishment
- Four Principles of Discipline
- II.. Trials to Keep Us From Pride
- III.. Trials to Build Faith
- IV.. Trials That Cause Growth
- V.. Trials That Teach Obedience and Discipline
- VI.. Trials That Prevent Us from Falling into Sin
- VII.. Trials That Equip Us to Comfort Others
- VIII.. Trials That Prove the Reality of Christ in Us
- IX.. Trials That Glorify God
- X.. Trials for a Testimony to the Angels
- God's Revelation to the Angels
- In Defense of Job
- Jesus' Negative Confession
- The Twelfth Commandment
- Chapter 17. Endurance in the Race of Faith
- The Dynamics of Waiting on the Lord
- Learning to Run in God's Race
- Casting Off Excess Baggage
- Endurance: The Essence of Combat Faith
- Jesus, the Supreme Example of Combat Faith
- When Deliverance Is Delayed
- Chapter 18. Focusing on Things Not Seen
- The Eternal Things That Are Not Seen
- Our New Bodies
- Our New Dwelling Place
- Our Crowns
- The Crown of Righteousness
- The Crown of Life
- The Crown of Glory
- The Crown of Exultation
- Our New Garments
- God's Special Books
- The Book of Tears
- The Book of Remembrance
- Kings and Priests
- Higher Than Angels
- We Shall Know God as He Now Knows Us
- Hope, the Key to a Dynamic Present Faith
- Notes