Below are the actual chapter titles by chapter number for the book Welcome to Manhood by Noah Herrin. (I'll edit this with page numbers as/if I get through it.)
- a warning: 11
- be a finisher: 14
- chase the right goals: 17
- don’t waste your life: 21
- friends
- own your spiritual growth
- your phone lies
- selfishness
- stop playing it safe
- stop following your heart
- lust
- servants > leaders
- dating
- relationship or religion?
- the bible
- comparison
- clarity or trust
- ask bigger
- a critical spirit
- financial stewardship
- tithing
- accountability
- the church
- the more-monster
- anxiety
- cycle of sin
- opinions
- finding a good wife
- singleness
- gratitude
- the holy spirit
- pride vs. humility
- forgiveness
- demons
- influence
- “little sin”
- radical obedience
- do hard things
- commit to community
- investing
- pace
- learn from everyone
- holiness
- college
- closed doors
- king chasing > dream chasing
- bounce back
- disagreeing well
- how to be great
- value
- grow there
- when God seems far away
I bought this book the day that I learned from my wife that we're gonna divorce. Feeling adrift and like I really, truly only have my faith to cling to - which I'd already started to cling to amidst the trials of our relationship - I thought it might be interesting or helpful to browse the book rack at the Hobby Lobby next to Five Below, my usual go-to for distractions from boredom or frustration. And that's where I found this book and some others (others which are just kind of through-and-through good and, ironically, don't need to be written about as a result of their goodness).
The book Welcome to Manhood is aimed at Christian men who are younger than I am at this point (those not much older than high school graduates), but it nonetheless sounded like a decent source of information about how I might live more purposefully in my faith (the cover literally says "Moving from Potential to Purpose").
The printed book, at least, lacks a table of contents, which I think is pretty frickin' weird. The lack of a ToC makes returning to wherever you left off really difficult and doesn't let you jump to a chapter that sounds like it might speak more to your current situation/needs. (Not to mention that if you're in the store and unsure of whether to buy it, it's one less important source of information as to whether you should buy it.)
I suspect that the lack of a ToC is somewhat by design for this book, as it provides a program of messages to think about and work on each week for an entire year (hence the 52 chapters). They might be trying to prevent people from skipping ahead and to encourage them to just de-stress and adhere to the simple program. But it still feels nonetheless lame to not include a ToC.
In the ePub version of the book, the generated table of contents isn't much better, just providing chapter numbers.
Posting this here for now since I don't want to bother with updating my wiki site right now.