Excellent in-depth analysis of what the Bible says about God's grace

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	• Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love Jerry Bridges NavPress Publishing Group, 1993 average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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Excellent in-depth analysis of what the Bible says about God's grace

As a believer in Christ for many years, I thought I had a fair grasp on the biblical concept of God's grace. Then I read this book and realized just how little I know. Jerry Bridges does an excellent job, born of many years of ruminating on the subject, of helping beleaguered Christians wrap their minds around this frequently misunderstood teaching. He strikes a delicate but scripturally sound balance between law and liberty, license and legalism, dependence and discipline.

We are at the same time commanded to work out our own salvation and to depend utterly on God's grace to do it for us. Whatever good we are commanded to do, we are able to do only because God is working in us both to desire and to be able to do what is pleasing to Him. The Bible teaches both our personal responsibility to pursue holiness, and our utter dependence on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to make it happen. Jerry Bridges does a great job of reconciling the biblical tension between these two seemingly inconsistent doctrines.

Also of great value are the latter chapters on how to appropriate the grace of God to effect change in our own lives and in the lives of those around us. Bridges shows how we must move beyond "grace" as merely a religious buzzword, and actually do the things to lay hold of grace in our daily lives and difficult struggles. Finally, the book concludes with a chapter on the "garments of grace", that is, those aspects of Christian character that should be increasingly evident in our lives as we avail ourselves of God's grace. These including things like gratitude, humility, forbearance and forgiveness, all of which will characterize a person who regularly approaches God's throne of grace with boldness.

Thanks to Jerry Bridges for this insightful and helpful work. I commend it to the reading of all believers for their edification, and ultimately for their ability to revel in God's transforming, empowering grace.

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Do NOT miss this book!

This is the single greatest book I have EVER read concerning the Grace of God. Never have I seen grace explained so clearly or explored so thoroughly and accurately. My walk with Christ and my relationship with Him have been transformed by reading this book. I didn't want it to end. Buy one for yourself and then buy one for your Pastor and friends. I cannot say enough about it other than: "Absolutely do NOT miss this incredible book!!" Might I also recommend The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God. This book by Lee Stroebel is the best book in print regarding the evolution vs. creation debate. Don't miss this one either!!

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A Must Read...

...for any Christian. It doesn't matter which way you lean on the doctrines of grace (Calvinist, Arminian), this book clearly and concisely articulates the power of grace in the Christian's life. Bridges' writing style is very reader-friendly, and he can make even the most difficult concepts easy to understand. Highly recommended.

Authentically Living by Grace

This book by Jerry Bridges is a smart, well-reasoned work that forces the Christian to examine whether they truly are living by grace, or whether they subtly have reverted to a form of works-righteousness.

Most Christians have no problem with the concept that we can do nothing to earn salvation, but many become hung up afterward in thinking that they must perform in order to keep God's favor or receive certain blessings in life. Bridges reassures the reader that if they are authentically saved, there is nothing that they can do to cause God to reject them. The Christian wholeheartedly obeys God's commandments, Bridges teaches, not because he is afraid of incurring God's wrath if he fails to do so, but out of a sense of gratitude for God's awesome mercy and grace.

Bridges writes a very useful chapter on legalism and some of the conflicts that it creates. He discusses the differences between legalism, liberty, and license, and gives wise advice about how to deal with those issues.

This book covers many of the same themes as Chuck Swindoll's "The Grace Awakening", but does so from an explicitly Reformed perspective. It is a great book for Christians who somehow feel that they "haven't done enough" to earn God's favor.

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This book helps us accept and understand God's grace so we can live with the freedom of not having to measure up.

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