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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