Notes
NOTES
CHAPTER 2: ME — A SINNER?
. Peter Barnes, “What! Me? A Sinner?” The Banner of Truth, April 2004, 21.
. Karl Menninger, Whatever Became of Sin? (New York: Hawthorne, 1973), 14–15.
. Barnes.
CHAPTER 3: SPIRITUAL CANCER
. Ralph Venning, The Sinfulness of Sin (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1965; first published 1669), 31.
CHAPTER 4: THE GUILT CURE
. Brian H. Edwards, Through Many Dangers: The Story of John Newton (Welwyn, England: Eurobooks, 1980), 191.
. An alternate reading of the last phrase is “Save from wrath and make me pure.” Of ten hymnals I consulted, five use the phrase I have used. Five use the alternate reading. Either way, the meaning is ultimately the same.
. An exposition and application to life of some of these Scriptures is included in chapter 6 of my book The Gospel for Real Life, also published by NavPress.
CHAPTER 8: ANXIOUS AND FRUSTRATED
. I am aware that some people suffer from extreme anxiety attacks that are totally consuming and often result in physical complications. These cases may require professional help and are beyond the scope of this book. I am dealing with what we might call the anxieties of ordinary, daily life.
CHAPTER 9: DISCONTENT
. I have dealt with these attributes of God more in depth in my book Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts (NavPress).
CHAPTER 11: PROUD
. The term “humblebrag” was coined by screenwriter Harris Wittels, who collected these kinds of statements on his Twitter feed and then in his book Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012).
CHAPTER 14: IMPATIENT AND IRRITABLE
. This expression is taken from the title of Paul David Tripp’s book War of Words (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2000). I highly recommend this excellent book.
CHAPTER 15: ANGRY
. Robert D. Jones, Uprooting Anger (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2005), 13.
. I am indebted to Robert Jones for these thoughts, though I have not quoted him exactly. For readers who want to pursue the subject of anger beyond this chapter, Jones’s book Uprooting Anger is an excellent resource.
. Again I know that I have treated this subject lightly. Jones has an excellent chapter in Uprooting Anger that deals extensively with the subject of anger against God.
CHAPTER 16: IN THE WEEDS
. Some readers may wonder why I do not refer to the phrase “root of bitterness” in Hebrews 12:15 as a warning against the sin of bitterness. The expression is an allusion to Deuteronomy 29:18 and the phrase “poisonous and bitter fruit,” which in that passage speaks of inward, heart rebellion against God. In Hebrews 12:15, the writer was using that expression from Deuteronomy to warn against apostasy, not the bitterness of ongoing resentment.
CHAPTER 20: WORLDLY
. Joel Belz, “Stingy Givers,” World Magazine, June 24, 2006, 4.
. Belz, 4.
. Curtis Chang, “What the Bible Says About Money: Investing in the Kingdom” (lecture notes, Urbana ’96 Student Missions Conference, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, IL, December 1996), http://www.intervarsity.org/mx/item/4720/download/.