Book Recommendation: Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots By. J. C. Ryle

Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots. By. J. C. Ryle

This treasure is still in print today (paper, kindle, and pdf).  I have worked through it several times.  It still serves as a refreshing source for combating what much of evangelicalism is passing off today as correct doctrine and practice.  Progressive Sanctification is simply not taken as serious as it should in today's Christian circles.  Much of what is passed off today under the guise of grace, liberty, and relevance is infecting the lives of Christians for their harm.  Code words such as legalist, antinomian, neo-nomian and judgmental have been used far to long by present-day evangelical writers.  Christians today need to return to time-tested books that have served God's people for many years not the trendy and faddish books quickly printed and disappearing from print almost as fast.

Consider the table of contents below:

Ch. 1 Sin
Ch. 2 Sanctification
Ch. 3 Holiness
Ch. 4 The Fight
Ch. 5 The Lost
Ch. 6 Growth
Ch. 7 Assurance
Ch. 8 Moses-An Example
Ch. 9 Lot-A Beacon
Ch. 10 A Woman to be Remembered
Ch. 11 Christ's Greatest Trophy
Ch. 12 The Ruler of Waves
Ch. 13 The Church which Christ Builds
Ch 14 Visible Churches Warned
Ch. 15 Lovest Thou Me?
Ch. 16 Without Christ
Ch. 17 Thirst Relieved
Ch. 18 Unsearchable Riches
Ch. 19 Wants of the Times
Ch. 20 Christ is All
Ch. 21 Extracts from Old Writers

I highly recommend this book to any and all who desire to take the doctrine of progressive sanctification seriously.