Using the book of James as a model, Briscoe examines the following choices that most women face:
- To resist pain or to use it
- To gather wealth or to gather grace
- To speak wisely or to speak foolishly
- To value our time or to fritter it away
- To live for ourselves or to live for the Spirit
- To develop God's gifts or to waste them
- To persevere or to protest
- To stand for truth or to abandon it