Friday, March 2, 2018

Holiness and the Pursuit of Godliness: resource recommendations

The following resources are biblically sound helps as we seek to wage war against indwelling sin and pursue holiness.

1) J. C. RyleHoliness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots 

2) Jerry Wragg-  Free to Be Holy

3) Kris Lundgaard- The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin.

4) John Owen- The Mortification of Sin.

5) Joshua HarrisSex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World

Colossians 3:5-11, Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, 10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— 11 a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.

Hebrews 12:14, Pursue peace and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.