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Charles Stanley Life Principles Study Guides: Overcoming the Enemy
WHETHER YOU KNOW IT OR NOT, YOU ARE IN A WAR. Believers know that the wicked, destroying acts of Satan are not just a fable. He is behind the temptations and battles you face everyday and the power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ is the only way to fight this real, evil force. In Overcoming the Enemy, a Life Principles Study Series, Dr. Charles Stanley explores the necessary weapons you need to fight the enemy for victorious living. This is no bedtime story. This one is as real as it gets.
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128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 1997
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About the author
Charles F. Stanley
555 books681 followersDr. Charles F. Stanley is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church Atlanta, founder of In Touch Ministries, and a New York Times best-selling author who has written more than fifty books, and has sold more than nine million copies. He demonstrates a keen awareness of people's needs and provides Christ-centered, biblically-based principles for everyday life.
Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.
However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.
Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.
Charles Frazier Stanley was born September 25, 1932, in the small town of Dry Fork, Virginia. The only child of Charley and Rebecca Stanley, Charles came into the world during a time when the entire nation felt the grip of the Great Depression. To make matters worse, just nine months later, his father Charley died at the young age of 29.
However, Charles refused to let the Great Depression or the difficulties of his life define him. Instead, like his father and grandfather before him, he clung to God’s Word and took up the mantle to preach the gospel to whoever would listen.
Dr. Stanley’s motivation is best represented by the truth found in Acts 20:24, “Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about God's mighty kindness and love.” This is because, as he says, “It is the Word of God and the work of God that changes people’s lives.”
Dr. Stanley’s teachings can be heard weekly at First Baptist Church Atlanta, daily on “In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley” radio and television broadcasts on more than 2,800 stations around the world, on the Internet at intouch.org, through the In Touch Messenger, and in the monthly, award-winning In Touch magazine.
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June 14, 2013
Have read a lot of Dr. Stanley's books from the 1980s to 1990s. They're always theologically sound and Trinitarian centered, which you seldom find in most theological writers today. I was disappointed in this book because there were numerous parts in it that didn't sound at all like Dr. Stanley's teachings and writings from the 1980s and 1990s when he was still actively lecturing and teaching. In fact, this sounded more like a bunch of different Christian writers (not necessarily theologically trained) who clobbered together some passages from some of Dr. Stanley's books, then created the whole Life Principles Study series. I'm pretty sure it was with Dr. Stanley's approval, but it just seems that this book in particular reflects the editors'/writers' brand of interpretation of Scripture: they read their own theology (or their own interpretation of Scripture) into the principles in this book, proof texting their work along the way. (Proof text is a method of using verses from Scripture to prove what you believe.) I think this book is well suited for Pentecostals, neo-evangelicals, and fundamentalists. It's not for Trinitarian, Incarnational theology-centered Christians.
September 28, 2010
I enjoy Charles Stanley's In Touch Study Series. Good for a small group or for an individual. This one cover Satan and how a Christian should deal with him. I learned some things I didn't know about our vanquished foe. Give it a shot.
December 28, 2012
In a word: brilliant. There is a very real spiritual battle taking place, and it is nice to go into the battle with your armor on.
September 11, 2013
Excellent overview and a great study guide for how to resist the devil and stand firm in a life of faith.
March 4, 2015
Great Book
Great Book hope everyone will read and see that we can fight the enemy through Jesus . We can overcome the world through faith in our Lord Jesus.
Great Book hope everyone will read and see that we can fight the enemy through Jesus . We can overcome the world through faith in our Lord Jesus.
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