Jerry bridges, the author who challenged more than a million readers to take seriously gods command for holiness, died sunday at 86. Now includes a study guide for personal or group use. Its not easy to define the word holiness and even harder to achieve it. Sep 19, 2016 the pursuit of holiness ebook written by jerry bridges. Free of fluff and steeped in scripture, heres a rocksolid 365day devotional that will stand the. Apr 01, 2004 buy pursuit of holiness by bridges, jerry isbn. In other words, to live a holy life is to live a life in conformity to the moral precepts of the bible and in contrast to the sinful ways of the world. How does my life measure up that scripture or principle. You cannot say to a slave, live as a free man, but you can say that to someone delivered from slavery.
This book is a sequel to an earlier book, the pursuit of holiness. The back cover calls holiness the christians joint venture with god, and the tension between what god does and what the christian is responsible for keeps this from being a legalistic recital of why we should be holy. In addition to his international speaking ministry, he has authored ten books and three devotionals. In the pursuit of holiness, he helps us see clearly just what we should rely on god to do and what we should accept responsibility for ourselves. The pursuit of holiness jerry bridges more free online. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the pursuit of holiness.
The pursuit of holiness by jerry bridges 1978 posted on 20161129 by thelittleman god does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with him, but he does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way. Live a holy life just do it holiness begins in our minds and works out in our actions right motivation heart of faith right manner according to the word right end to glorify god guard your eyes and ears tv, movies, books, magazines, music, conversations. Hatred of sin as sin, not just as something disquieting or defeating to ourselves, but as displeasing to god, lies at the root of all true holiness. Jerry bridges is a longtime staff member of the navigators and currently serves with their collegiate ministry. In his insightful little book, the pursuit of holiness, jerry bridges provides a biblical exposition for the longtime christian dilemma for how to live holy as god is holy leviticus 20. The pursuit of holiness by jerry bridges book notes september 21, 2018. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Nov 25, 2016 in this companion study guide to the pursuit of holiness, you can discover the bibles guidelines for holy living. As you develop a deeper relationship with god, you will learn more about his character, grow in.
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