Chapter 1 The Gospel, a Perfect Fit for Your Reality
1. Dictionary.com, s.v. “perfectionism,” accessed January 15, 2017, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/perfectionism.
2. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “menō” (Strong’s no. G3306), https://www.blueletterbible.org//lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3306&t=KJV.
3. R. C. Sproul, ed., New Geneva Study Bible (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1995), 1694.
4. Elyse Fitzpatrick, Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012), 24.
Chapter 2 Humility’s Good Fruit
1. Dictionary.com, s.v. “perfectionism.”
2. See Isa. 55:9.
3. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 148.
4. Dictionary.com, s.v. “perfectionism.”
Chapter 3 Guilty? Yes. Condemned? No Way!
1. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “katakrima” (Strong’s no. G2631), https://www.blueletterbible.org//lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G2631&t=KJV.
2. Sproul, New Geneva Study Bible, 1987.
Chapter 4 That Peace
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Over-Soul,” in Essays: First Series, 1841.
Chapter 5 His Sovereignty, My Security
1. James D. Bratt, ed., Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 488.
2. Gal. 5:1 and 2 Thess. 2:15.
3. Sproul, New Geneva Study Bible, 1883, 1888.
4. Eph. 1:11.
5. Jerry Bridges’s book Trusting God is a great starting point for the topic of God’s sovereignty.
6. Isa. 55:9 and Rom. 11:33–36.
7. Prov. 25:2.
8. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “heautou” (Strong’s no. G1438), https://www.blueletterbible.org//lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G1438&t=KJV.
9. Gen. 50:20.
10. Exod. 3:14.
11. Rom. 8:22–23.
Chapter 6 Ideal or Idol?
1. Gen. 29–31.
2. Exod. 32.
3. Exod. 12:35–36.
4. Rom. 12:1 (NKJV and AMP).
5. Ps. 18:30 and Isa. 55:8–9.
Chapter 7 Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
1. William Berry, “The Truth Will Not Set You Free,” Psychology Today, May 6, 2012, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-second-noble-truth/201205/the-truth-will-not-set-you-free.
2. For a detailed exposition of truth and its spiritual, intellectual, and cultural ramifications, I highly recommend Nancy Pearcey’s books Total Truth, Saving Leonardo, and Finding Truth.
3. Ps. 30:5.
4. Rom. 5:3–5.
5. 2 Cor. 5:7.
6. James 3:18.
7. Richard Chenevix Trench, “Human Experience, Different Minds,” in Bliss Carman et al., eds., The Higher Life, vol. 4 of The World’s Best Poetry, 1904, http://www.bartleby.com/360/4/172.html.
8. Sproul, New Geneva Study Bible, 1510.
9. Sproul, New Geneva Study Bible, 1515.
10. Matt. 6:25–33.
11. Ps. 139:17–18.
12. Col. 3:3.
Chapter 8 Women in Combat Boots
1. Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016), 138.
2. Sproul, New Geneva Study Bible, 1548.
3. Eph. 6:17.
4. Found in Eph. 6:14–18 and worth studying, remembering, and applying daily.
5. 2 Cor. 12:9.
6. Rom. 7:24–8:4; also see chap. 3 above.
7. Ps. 139:16; Eph. 1:11; and Job 42:2.
8. Judg. 7:1–8.
9. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “paniym” (Strong’s no. H6440), https://www.blueletterbible.org//lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6440&t=KJV.
10. 2 Chron. 20:7–11.
11. Rom. 8:28.
Part 4 The Gospel’s Power
1. Matt. 16:18; John 1:42; Matt. 28:18; and James 2:19.
Chapter 9 Your Beautiful “Once upon a Time”
1. Blue Letter Bible, s.v. “poiēma” (Strong’s no. G4161), https://www.blueletterbible.org//lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G4161&t=KJV.
2. 2 Cor. 10:12.
3. Col. 1:18.
4. George MacDonald, The Curate’s Awakening, ed. Michael R. Phillips (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1985), 158.
5. Isa. 43:1–2, 4.
Chapter 10 Heavenly Minded
1. C. S. Lewis, Letters to an American Lady, reissue ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), 124.
2. Dictionary.com, s.v. “myopia,” accessed January 16, 2017, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/myopia.
3. Dictionary.com, s.v. “myopic,” accessed January 16, 2017, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/myopic.
4. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, vol. 1 of Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 134, emphasis added.
5. J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small (New York: Macmillan, 1961), 7.
6. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small, 8.
7. Timothy Keller, Hidden Christmas (New York: Viking, 2016), 53.
8. Keller, Hidden Christmas, 53.
9. Keller, Hidden Christmas, 53–54.
10. 1 Pet. 2:11.
11. James 1:2.