Study Guides by
Jerry Bridges
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Respectable Sins
Jerry Bridges' Respectable Sins begins with a provocative and uncomfortable premise: while evangelical Christians are quick to condemn the "gross" sins of society — sexual immorality, violence, addiction — we have quietly tolerated a whole catalog of sins in our own hearts and communities. Anxiety, pride, anger, impatience, judgmentalism, gossip, and ingratitude have become so common among believers that we scarcely recognize them as sin at all. Bridges calls these "respectable sins" — the kind we wink at, explain away, or simply never name. His goal is not to heap condemnation but to bring these hidden sins into the light of the gospel, where genuine grace and transformation can meet them.
View Discussion GuideThe Pursuit of Holiness
Jerry Bridges' The Pursuit of Holiness is a clarion call to take personal holiness as seriously as God does. Written in 1978 and still transforming lives decades later, the book builds its case around a deceptively simple conviction: holiness is not optional for the Christian. Drawing on the repeated biblical command — "Be holy, because I am holy" (1 Peter 1:16) — Bridges argues that most believers have accepted a dangerously low standard for their own moral and spiritual lives, drifting along with the current of culture rather than swimming upstream toward Christlikeness. The book's great contribution is holding two truths in careful tension: holiness is entirely God's work in us, and it requires the deliberate, disciplined effort of the believer. Neither passive mysticism nor white-knuckled willpower, but a cooperative pursuit.
View Discussion GuideTrusting God
Jerry Bridges wrote Trusting God out of a painful personal conviction: that most Christians say they believe in God's sovereignty, but few of us actually live as though we do. When suffering arrives — illness, loss, shattered plans, unanswered prayer — the gap between our theology and our trust is exposed. Bridges builds his case carefully and biblically, arguing that genuine trust in God is not a feeling we manufacture but a reasoned, faith-filled response to three unshakeable truths about God: He is perfectly sovereign (able to do anything), infinitely wise (knowing what is best), and completely good (working all things for our ultimate good and His glory). The book is both a theological argument and a pastoral companion for anyone in pain, drawing heavily from Scripture and from honest reflection on the trials of real life.
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