Temptations Women Face
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"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
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.
Preface
Prologue
Part I: What's the Problem?
1. Women Are Different: Legends Findings
2. Temptation Sin from a Woman's Perspective
Part II: Symptoms: Trying to Fill the Aching Gap
3. Trusting Externals to Make Us Feel Good
4. Filling Our Lives with Things
5. Focusing on Food
6. Filling Our Lives with the Trivial
7. Letting Our Anger Consume Us
8. Believing Distortions About Intimacy
9. Believing Distortions About Sex
10. Getting Stuck in Our Dissatisfaction
Part III: Building a Holy Life
11. A Quick Fix for a Holy Life
12. Dead End: Legalism or License
13. Being Real with Ourselves, Others God
14. Responsible Belonging in a Community of Faith
Epilogue
Appendix--Prayers of Confession
Notes