Quiet Talks on Personal Problems
Gordon's pastoral guide addressing major spiritual challenges facing individuals, tackling sin as 'the problem of sin' by examining its nature, law, and multiple facets, and progressing to address doubt and other personal spiritual struggles.
74 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
A Bit Ahead
2
Chapter 1: The Problem of Sin
3
The Law of Sin.
4
Six Sides of Sin.
5
Seven Facts about Sin.
6
Unloosing the Demons of Sin.
7
The Logical Result of Sin.
8
The Sinless Man.
9
Opening the Life-door.
10
Sin Needs Double Treatment.
11
Chapter 2: The Problem Of Doubt
12
Perplexed Searchers.
13
Taking away a Cripple's Crutches.
14
Some Marks of Honest Doubt.
15
The Best Book on Christian Evidences.
16
The Spirit of Search.
17
The Book.
18
The Man.
19
The Call of the Christ.
20
Chapter 3: The Problem Of Ambition or What Is Best Worth While
21
The World's Under-Master.
22
God Needs Men.
23
The Brooding Need.
24
"Forgetting, I Press Forward."
25
A Double Trinity.
26
A High Aim.
27
A Strange Coat-of-arms.
28
A Higher Aim.
29
The Man Waiting to Go Along.
30
Chapter 4: The Problem Of Self-Mastery
31
The Greatest Battlefield
32
Ditching Life's Stream.
33
The Original Image.
34
"Study to Keep Quiet."
35
Living Musically.
36
In Step with God.
37
Living in the Essentials.
38
The Foes of Self-Mastery.
39
The Mastery of Jesus.
40
Chapter 5: The Problem Of Pain
41
The Commonness of Pain.
42
Sorts of Pain.
43
The Source of Pain.
44
Jesus and Pain.
45
The Mission of Pain.
46
Compensations.
47
Victory.
48
Chapter 6: The Problem Of Guidance
49
A Guide over Life's Trail.
50
God Plans every Life.
51
God Tells us His Plan for us.
52
Accepting God's Plan.
53
A Disciplined Judgment.
54
Unhurried Waiting.
55
Guided in Judgment.
56
The Boys and the Tramps.
57
Instructed in the Night Seasons.
58
Finding the Life-plan.
59
"My Sheep Hear My Voice."
60
Chapter 7: The Problem Of The Church
61
Some Wrong Ideas.
62
The Tie of Blood and Spirit.
63
A Picture of the True Family.
64
Fellowship and Service.
65
The New Church Unity.
66
The True Church Spirit.
67
Chapter 8: The Problem Of Questioned Things
68
Glimpses of Real Life.
69
Questions that are Not Questions.
70
The Sabbath Question.
71
Giving Comfort to the Enemy.
72
Paul's Advice.
73
Not to Judge but to Save.
74
The Law of Love.