And The Winner Is...

Yes, I have finally made a decision on a book for the women of EPC to read and study and discuss together! Each year I find it a fun, yet challenging, duty to choose a work that I think will best suit the friends who come together with a common desire for increased godliness. So what better title than this year’s winner: The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges.

Regular readers of CandyceLand will remember that one of last year’s selections was also a book by this same author, Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate. This new one will be a good companion study. While last year we examined sins such as pride, judgmentalism, and envy, this year we will be focusing on the positive traits of humility, peace, gentleness, etc.

I thought this approach would follow the Biblical command stated in Ephesians 4:

“... put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

Previously we have examined our former manner of life (sins) and now we will work toward the new self (godliness). May the Lord bless us in this endeavor.