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Lies Women Believe And the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy Leigh DeMoss ISBN: 0-8024-7296-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-8024-7296-0 Price: $15.99 # of Pages: 288 Format: Paperback

Prologue
Chapter One: Truth or Consequences

SECTION TWO: LIES WOMEN BELIEVE...

Chapter Two: About God
1. God is not really good.
2. God doesn't love me.
3. God is just like my father.
4. God is not really enough.
5. God's ways are too restrictive.
6. God should fix my problems.

Chapter Three: About Themselves
7. I'm not worth anything.
8. I need to learn to love myself.
9. I can't help the way I am.
10. I have my rights.
11. Physical beauty matters more than inner beauty.
12. I should not have to live with unfulfilled longings.

Chapter Four: About Sin
13. I can sin and get away with it.
14. My sin isn't really that bad.
15. God can't forgive what I have done.
16. I am not fully responsible for my actions and reactions.
17. I cannot walk in consistent victory over sin.

Chapter Five: About Priorities
18. I don't have time to do everything I'm supposed to do.
19. I can make it without consistent time in the Word and prayer.
20. A career outside the home is more valuable and fulfilling than being a wife and mother.

Chapter Six: About Marriage
21. I have to have a husband to be happy.
22. It is my responsibility to change my mate.
23. My husband is supposed to serve me.
24. If I submit to my husband I'll be miserable.
25. If my husband is passive, I've got to take the initiative, or nothing will get done.
26. Sometimes divorce is a better option than staying in a bad marriage.

Chapter Seven: About Children
27. It's up to us to determine the size of our family.
28. Children need to get exposed to the "real world" so that they can learn to function in it.
29. All children will go through a rebellious stage.
30. I know my child is a Christian because he prayed to receive Christ at an early age.
31. We are not responsible for how our children turn out.

Chapter Eight: About Emotions
32. If I feel something, it must be true.
33. I can't control my emotions.
34. I can't help how I respond when my hormones are out of whack. (It's understandable to act like a shrew at certain times.)
35. The answer to depression must first be sought in medication and/or psychotherapy.

Chapter Nine: About Circumstances
36. If my circumstances were different, I would be different.
37. I shouldn't have to suffer.
38. My circumstances will never change this - will go on forever.
39. I just can't take anymore.
40. It's all about me

SECTION THREE: WALKING IN THE TRUTH

Chapter Ten: Countering Lies with the Truth

Chapter Eleven: The Truth That Sets Us Free

Excerpt
Bondage is another word that comes to mind when I think of contemporary Christian women. The vast majority of women I meet are in bondage-they are not free, often, by their own admission. For example, many women live under a cloud of personal guilt and condemnation. They are not free to enjoy the grace and the love of God. Many are in bondage to their past. Others are in bondage to what the Bible calls the "fear of man"-they are gripped by fear of rejection, fear of what people think of them and a longing for approval. Still others are emotional prisoners, enslaved by worry, fear, anger, depression, and self-pity. When we turn to the Scriptures, we are reminded that God didn't intend for it to be this way. As you look at your life, would you say you are experiencing the abundant life Jesus came to give? Or do you find yourself just existing, coping, struggling, surviving?