Have Christians become so preoccupied with the major sins that we have lost sight of our need to deal with the subtler ones? Jerry Bridges addresses the acceptable sins we tend to tolerate in ourselves, including pride and anger, and goes to the heart of the matter by examining the feelings and attitudes underneath the behavior.

The list is uncomfortably specific: anxiety, discontentment, selfishness, lack of self-control, impatience and irritability, envy, a critical spirit, worldliness. Bridges' point is that these are the more dangerous for being respectable, and his remedy is the gospel applied daily rather than resolution. The Spanish edition, Pecados respetables, is also available.