Foreword by Rebecca St. James | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
Part One: I Kissed Dating Goodbye |
1. Smart Love | 17 |
Beyond What Feels Good, Back to What Is Good |
2. The Seven Habits of Highly Defective Dating | 29 |
Recognizing Dating's Negative Tendencies |
3. A New Attitude | 45 |
Five Attitude Changes to Help You Avoid Defective Dating |
Part Two: The Heart of the Matter |
4. Looking Up "Love" in God's Dictionary | 55 |
Learning the True Definition of Love |
5. The Right Thing at the Wrong Time Is the Wrong Thing | 73 |
How to Keep Impatience from Robbing You of |
the Gift of Singleness |
6. The Direction of Purity | 87 |
How to Get on the Road to Righteousness |
7. A Cleansed Past: The Room | 103 |
How Jesus Can Redeem Your Past |
Part Three: Building A New Lifestyle |
8. Starting with a Clean Slate | 111 |
Four Important Steps for Getting on Track with God'sPlan |
9. Just Friends in a Just-Do-It World | 121 |
Keys for Keeping Your Relationships with the |
Opposite Sex out of the "Romantic Zone" |
10. Guard Your Heart | 133 |
How to Fight the Pollutants of Lust, |
Infatuation, and Self-Pity |
11. "You Don't Date? What Are You,Nuts?" | 149 |
What to Do When People Ask Why You |
Don't Play the Dating Game |
Part Four: Now What? |
12. Redeeming the Time | 163 |
Making the Most of Your Singleness |
13. Ready for the Sack but Not for the Sacrifice | 177 |
How to Have a Biblical and Realistic Vision of Marriage |
14. What Matters at Fifty? | 189 |
Character Qualities and Attitudes that |
Matter Most in a Life Partner |
15. Principled Romance | 203 |
Principles that Can Guide You from Friendship to Matrimony |
16. Someday I'll Have a Story to Tell | 223 |
Writing a Love Story You'll Feel Proud to Tell |
Notes | 229 |
Acknowledgments | 233 |
About the Author | 235 |