"We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print."
~ Virginia Woolf
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A wise friend once told me that "ultimately the way to combat a lot of sin is to drag it out into the ugly light." And that is exactly what Jerry Bridges accomplishes in this book. "Respectable Sins", as is made obvious by the title, isn't about overt, audacious sin. Rather, it's about sins we tolerate and sins that even go unnoticed in our daily lives because we've become so habituated in our sinfulness. That means that this book is for everybody, especially if you don't 'feel' particularly sinful, because held next to the standard of Christ, each of us can only say along with Paul "oh wretched man that I am!" Every chapter is full of valuable information. Bridges… Read more
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"To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death." That is the message of this book. From start to finish C.J. Mahaney presents a practical, gospel-centered solution to pride. the first 1/3 of this book (about 60 pages) is designed to convince us that pride is perhaps the most basic issue we face in our Christian lives. He accomplishes this by demonstrating the subtleness with which pride can act in a believers life, as well as the fact that, ultimately, it is a raising up of ourselves against an infinitely wise, holy, and perfect God. To finish off this… Read more
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There are two observations that need to be made at the outset of this review: 1. I read this book after reading "Outliers" and so I expected to be 'wowed' in much the same manner; which I wasn't. Having said that, however, I still found the book to be quite interesting, as much of the information presented a novel (at least to me) way of looking at what happens around me. 2. How can I say a book that's barely 12 years old is "outdated"? Well this was written before the advent of facebook, twitter, texting, blogs (at least as we know them today), and, in fact, the internet as it is today. Which leads to Gladwell making an illustration that now seems laughable: A… Read more
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