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Victorious Living
Copyright © 1936 by Whitmore & Stone
Copyright © renewal 1964 by E. Stanley Jones
This edition published in 2015 by Abingdon Press
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Contents
Contents
Publisher’s Preface
Foreword: So Much the Better by Leonard Sweet
Author’s Introduction
Week 1 Sunday: The Question That Halts Our Quest; Monday: Follow a Life of No or a Life of Yes?; Tuesday: Is Life a Bubble or an Egg?; Wednesday: In Which We Look at the Alternatives; Thursday: In Which We Continue to Look at the Alternatives; Friday: In Which We Still Continue to Look at the Alternatives; Saturday: In Which We Make Our Choice
Week 2 Sunday: Why Are We Religious? Monday: The Divine Initiative; Tuesday: In Which Religion Is Defined for Us; Wednesday: The Central Emphasis in the Definition; Thursday: The Kingdom Written Within; Friday: The Kingdom and Life; Saturday: Are Religious People Unnatural and Strange?
Week 3 Sunday: Toiling in the Dark; Monday: How Do We Get to the Goal of Self-expression? Tuesday: How Do We Get Rid of Enemies? Wednesday: How Can We Arrive at Greatness? Thursday: How Do We Get to Happiness? Friday: How Can We Arrive at the Goal of Sex-fulfillment? Saturday: How Can We Arrive at the Goal of Inward Unity?
Week 4 Sunday: How Can I Find God? Monday: The Risk God Took; Tuesday: God’s Search for Me; Wednesday: Some Further Considerations in Finding God; Thursday: Who Can Find God? Friday: Facing the Issues; Saturday: We Apply the Tests
Week 5 Sunday: Am I Truthful? Monday: Am I Honest? Tuesday: Am I Pure? Wednesday: Am I Easily Offended or Am I Loving? Thursday: Am I Selfish or Are My Powers Dedicated? Friday: Is Confession Necessary? Saturday: To Whom Must I Confess?
Week 6 Sunday: Untangling Our Lives; Monday: Still Untangling Our Lives; Tuesday: Still Further Untangling Our Lives; Wednesday: In Which I Make the Surrender; Thursday: Thronging or Touching? Friday: What Does Faith Really Mean? Saturday: Must I Understand All Before I Follow?
Week 7 Sunday: First Steps Out of the Old Life; Monday: What Is Conversion? Tuesday: We Continue to Look at Conversion; Wednesday: Empty; Thursday: Is Conversion a Manifestation of the Sex Urge? Friday: Do Conversions Conform to One Pattern? Saturday: The Central Thing in Conversion
Week 8 Sunday: What Is the Basis of Assurance? Monday: The Assurance of the Word; Tuesday: The Assurance of the Collective Witness; Wednesday: The Assurance That Comes through New Moral Power; Thursday: The Assurance of the Creative Impulse; Friday: The Most Intimate of All Assurances: The Assurance of the Spirit; Saturday: Is This Assurance Based on Feeling?
Week 9 Sunday: The Take-off; Monday: Commit Yourself; Tuesday: Discipline Yourself; Wednesday: Establish the Prayer Habit; Thursday: Assimilate the Living Word; Friday: The Habit of Sharing; Saturday: The New Life and Recreation
Week 10 Sunday: The Corporate Fellowship; Monday: Is Christendom Living Victoriously? Tuesday: The Spirit of Nonexpectancy; Wednesday: Is Forgiveness the Best We Can Expect? Thursday: What Does the Gospel Offer? Friday: What the Victorious Life Is Not; Saturday: What the Victorious Life Is Not (continued)
Week 11 Sunday: What the Victorious Life Is Not (continued); Monday: What Is the Victorious Life? Tuesday: What Is the Victorious Life? (continued); Wednesday: Does Conversion Give Us Victorious Living? Thursday: The Inner Conflict; Friday: Can the Subconscious Be Converted? Saturday: Must We Face Another Spiritual Crisis?
Week 12 Sunday: The Old and the New Side by Side; Monday: The Revelation of the Central Difficulty; Tuesday: The Consequences of This Attitude; Wednesday: Group Consequences of This Attitude; Thursday: Racial Consequences of This Attitude; Friday: The Contrast; Saturday: The Secret
Week 13 Sunday: Stunted Lives; Monday: Arrested Growth; Tuesday: Tied Up through Fear; Wednesday: Tied Up through Mental Pride; Thursday: Tied Up through Moral Defeat; Friday: Tied Up through Shyness and Self-consciousness; Saturday: Tied Up by Sheer Emptiness
Week 14 Sunday: Results of the Victorious Life; Monday: The Leisured Heart; Tuesday: The Power to Live in Spite Of; Wednesday: The Strain Taken Out; Thursday: Power over Every Sin; Friday: Simplicity and Straightforwardness; Saturday: Life Creative
Week 15 Sunday: How Shall I Enter? Monday: Things to Avoid in Seeking; Tuesday: Further Things to Avoid; Wednesday: Whipping Up the Will; Thursday: The Crux of the Problem; Friday: Letting That Last Thing Go; Saturday: Compromises
Week 16 Sunday: Further Compromise; Monday: We Search Relentlessly; Tuesday: Two Welcomes; Wednesday: All I Know and All I Don’t Know; Thursday: All I Don’t Know (continued); Friday: The Acceptance; Saturday: A Personal Word
Week 17 Sunday: A Further Clarification; Monday: Fear of Not Having Emotion; Tuesday: Talk Faith to People; Wednesday: Clean through the Word; Thursday: The Cleansing of Their World; Friday: The Cleansing of the Kingdom; Saturday: Further Cleansing
Week 18 Sunday: His Declaration of Faith; Monday: Overcoming the World; Tuesday: Overcoming the World of the Commonplace; Wednesday: Overcoming the Handicap of a Mediocre Family; Thursday: Overcoming the World of the Spectacular; Friday: Overcoming the World of Haste;
