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Title: Holiness: Day by Day
Subtitle: Transformational Thoughts for your Spiritual Journey
Author: Jerry Bridges
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-10
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
We are called to a life of holiness. But, as any Christian can attest, the transformation from sinner to saint is rarely drastic or immediate. More often, it is a gradual process, found in the daily interactions of a spiritually nourished heart. In Holiness: Day by Day, Jerry Bridges offers that nourishment in the form of concise daily devotionals. With conversational style and God-centered focus, Bridges provides practical, encouraging insight, pointing us towards the One who, alone, is holy.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
At the end of the devotional, it gets a person's feet on the basics for our belief.
Well worth the investment!
Perhaps the best book that I have ever read on holiness and God's grace. Jerry Bridges is insightful and an excellent teacher!
Five Stars
Great book with eye- opener truth
Marginally helpful
This book was difficult to read. I only got so far into it before I ended up returning it due to difficulty.
The "TV dinner" of devotionals
This book consists of a set of short devotionals organized by week. Each begins with a Bible verse which in some cases has something to do with the devotional, and then a short discussion or devotional. These are all couched as devotionals, but honestly many simply don't say enough to truly be a devotional. They are exceedingly short, and while well written, they don't provide enough substance to really satisfy.
Satisfaction is perhaps subjective, so let me be more concrete. Take Week 5, Tuesday, for example. This gives the verse 2 Corinthians 6:1, "We appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain." The devotional consists entirely of four short paragraphs and just 14 sentences. Summarizing the paragraphs, their points are:
1) Someone's definition of grace is God's making up the difference between the requirements of His law and what we lack -- making up for what we lack
2) This is a deficient and false notion of grace
3) We need to understand saving grace to live by it
4) Grace is always the same -- grace for salvation and for life
Oddly enough, however, this devotional never explains what grace IS. This might be OK if the next devotional went on to do so, but it doesn't. So, we have here a stand-alone devotional that says that we'd better not see grace as just God making up for what we lack, and it's vital to have a correct understanding of grace. Which is...? The devotional leaves us wondering.
The above is a particularly empty example, in that all it does is challenges a wrong idea without giving us anything good to replace it with or pointing us to God in any meaningful way. Some others are more helpful, but I would put many of these more in the motivational rather than devotional category. Week 5, Monday is an example of this. Phil. 3:14 is the text and the devotional asks us whether we want to grow spiritually -- whether we REALLY want to grow spiritually -- and exhorts us to exercise spiritual disciplines to grow.
What should devotionals be? They should lift our eyes up from ourselves, to God and who he is, to Christ and how he has paid the price for us and is our advocate even today, and to the Holy Spirit who dwells in us and gives us power for life and godliness. They should bring us to worship, to be more devoted to our great God and Savior.