15. Phillips, Exploring the Future, 385.

16. Ibid., 277.

17. William Barclay, The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, The Daily Study Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), 213.

Chapter Twelve-Resisting Temptation.

1. Wayde I. Goodall tells this story. Names and some details have been changed to preserve privacy and confidentiality.

2. This is the experience of Thomas E. Trask.

3. George Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985), 246.

4. Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1992), 604.

5. James Dobson, Focus on the Family Magazine (May 1996), 5.

6. Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations, 246.

7. Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations, 605.

8. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, Lines 362-71 (New York: Mentor Books, 1981), 71.

9. Wayde I. Goodall. "Accountability, When a Pastor Needs a Pastor," Enrichment (Fall 1996), 79.

10. Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations, 605.

11. Quoted in Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, Devotional Cla.s.sics (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1989), 85.

12. Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations, 605.

13. William Barclay, The Letters of James and Peter, The Daily Study Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 52-53.

14. Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations, 245.

15. Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations, 605.

16. Ibid, 606.

17. This is the experience of Thomas E. Trask.

18. Wayde I. Goodall tells this story.

19. Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations, 246.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid., 245.

22. Adapted from Cliff Barrows and Billy Graham, Crusade Hymn Stories (Chicago: Hope Publishing, 1967), 40-41.

Chapter Thirteen-Winning the Battle.

1. Story used by permission of Lisa Lundstrom, c/o Lowell Lund-strom Ministries, 1009 Sixteenth Street N.E., Wilmar, Minnesota 56201. Telephone: (320) 235-0222. Fax number: (320) 235-0548.

2. This is the experience of Wayde I. Goodall.

3. George Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985), 133.

4. Thomas E. Trask is the general superintendent of the a.s.semblies of G.o.d.

5. Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1992), 271.

6. Ibid., 625.

7. Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations, 177.

8. Ibid., 127.

9. Billy Graham, Angels: G.o.d's Secret Agents (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1995), 250-51.

10. Quoted in ibid., 253.

11. David Wilkerson, "The Nearness of G.o.d," 11 November 1996, Times Square Church Pulpit Series (Lindale, TX: World Challenge), 1.

12. Adapted from Betty Jane Grams, "The Night of the Molotov Bombs," Moving Mountains (Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, n.d.), 43, 13. Al Bryant, 1,000 New Ill.u.s.trations (N.p: n.d.): quoted in Graham, Angels, 255-56.

14. This is the experience of Wayde I. Goodall.

15. Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations, 267.