To Help Those for Whom Joy Stays Out of Reach The Foundation of Gutsy Guilt
The Great Work of Christ Outside of Us Confusing Justification and Sanctification Will Kill Joy John Bunyan Sees His Righteousness in Heaven Start with Despair in Yourself
1 The Darkness of Melancholy 23
The Physical Side of Spiritual Darkness, The Place of Medication in the Fight for Joy
2 Waiting in Darkness, We Are Not Lost and Not Alone 33
How Long, O Lord, How Long!
The Ground of Our Assurance When We Cannot See Our Faith When a Child of God Is Persuaded That He Is Not
3 Fold Not the Arms of Action 45
What Matters Is Your Duty, Not Your Joy? Duty Includes the Duty of Joy Will You Be a Hypocrite If You Obey without Joy? Thanksgiving with the Mouth Stirs Up Thankfulness in the Heart
4 Does Unconfessed Sin Clog Our Joy? 53
Confessing to God and to Man Is Sweet Freedom Give the Devil His Due, but No More The Devil Cannot Abide with the Light of Cherished Truth
5 The Darkness That Feeds on Self-Absorption 61
How Bill Leslie Became a Watered Garden and a Spring What My Eighty-Five-Year-Old Father Said Was Missing The Aim Is That Our Words Would Be the Overflow of Joy in Christ Is the Cause You Live for Large Enough for Your Christ-Exalting Heart?
6 Loving Those Who Cannot See the Light 69
The Amazing Grace of John Newton’s Care for Cowper There Is No Wasted Work in Loving Those without Light
