It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“God's Grace is greater than all our sins. Repentance is one of the Christian's highest privileges. A repentant Christian focuses on God's… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Here is a spiritual principle: We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace. You cannot truly love others unless you are… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Grace... expresses two complementary thoughts: God's unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God's divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ,… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ,… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of God's promises to provide for us spiritually and materially, to never forsake us, to give us peace… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 PETER 3:18)” — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“We must be careful to let the Holy Spirit do this searching. If we try to search our own hearts, we are apt to… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.” — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In a sermon entitled “God's Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. 'Ah,' said Napoleon,… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
