"I have heard it said, "stop trying and start trusting" but sinners cannot trust, any more than try, without renewal of heart. Both are equally difficult apart from regenerating grace. So it is perfectly fine to call people to both try and trust (as an imperative) if we keep in mind that they both spring from the grace of Christ."
- John Hendryx
"Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace..."Pharisee-type believers unconsciously think they have earned God's blessing through their behavior. Guilt-laden believers are quite sure they have forfeited God's blessing through their lack of discipline or their disobedience. Both have forgotten the meaning of grace because they have moved away from the gospel and have slipped into a performance relationship with God."
- Jerry Bridges
| Title |
Notes |
Sanctification & Growth @ DesiringGod.org  |
John Piper |
| God Glorified in Sanctification |
by Kim Riddlebarger |
| Holiness (.pdf) |
Joel R. Beeke |
| Grow in Grace and Knowledge |
John M. Frame (pdf) - A Sermon on 2 Peter 3:18 |
| Here Comes the Judge |
Michael S. Horton |
| Our Holiness: Abiding in Christ’s Love |
Sinclair Ferguson |
| Seeking More Seriousness |
Maurice Roberts |
| Can I Be Holy? |
Paul G. Watts |
| On the Renewal of Interest in the Doctrine of Sanctification |
Steven L. Porter - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2002) |
| Self Control |
Ed Welch - excerpt from "Self Control: The Battle Against 'One More'" |
| Mortification and Vivification: The Shape of Holiness in Calvin’s Institutes |
Derek Thomas |
| Breaking Sin's Grip - 1 Peter 4:1-5 |
John MacArthur, Jr. |
| A History Lesson In Holiness |
David Legge - 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 |
| Blessed Are Those Who Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness |
David Legge |
| The Christian: The Divine Impersonator |
David Legge - Ephesians 5:1-7 |
| Exceeding The Scribes And Pharisees |
David Legge |
| Consecration - The Highway Of Holiness |
David Legge |
| A Time To Cry |
David Legge - Psalm 74 |
| Christian Freedom and the Christian's Purity |
David Legge - 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 |
| The Chief Design of My Life: Mortification and Universal Holiness |
John Piper - Reflections on the Life and Thought of John Owen |
| What is Sanctification? |
Lee Irons |
| Sanctification |
Davis Huckabee |
| What Role Does Sanctification Play in Salvation? |
Don Whitney |
| Biblical Sanctification |
Terry Landrum - 6 Lessons |
| The Interpreter's House and the Man with the Broom |
John G. Reisinger |
| Regeneration, Justification and Sanctification |
Lehman Strauss |
| Victorious Christian Living: Sanctification (Part 1) |
P.G. Mathew |
| Victorious Christian Living: Sanctification (Part 2) |
P.G. Mathew |
| Victorious Christian Living: Sanctification (Part 3) |
P.G. Mathew |
| Victorious Christian Living: Sanctification (Part 4) |
P.G. Mathew |
| Victorious Christian Living: Sanctification (Part 5) |
P.G. Mathew |
| Putting Sin to Death |
J. Ligon Duncan - Colossians 3:5-11 |
| Expelling Worldliness with a New Affection |
Sinclair Ferguson |
| Process Spirituality: Process Versus Product |
Kenneth Boa |
| Process Spirituality: Being Versus Doing |
Kenneth Boa |
| Process Spirituality: Trust, Gratitude, and Contentment |
Kenneth Boa |
| Continuing on the Journey |
Kenneth Boa |
| Five Views on Sanctification |
Mike Sullivan |
| A Call to Separation |
A. W. Pink |
| Motives for Obedience to God in the Christian Life (.pdf) |
Wayne Grudem |
| John Owen and the "Normal" Christian Life |
John D. Hannah |
| Growth in Grace |
Victor M. Matthews, Th.D. |
| The Good Fight: On sanctification, making war against sin, and cannibalism in the New Reformed movement. |
Matt Chandler |
| The Church: Living in the Present World Under the Cross of Christ |
Thomas W. Frazier, Jr., Reformation & Revival 5:1 (Winter 1996): 65-80. |
| Doctrine and Holiness (.pdf) |
Douglas Wilson, Reformation & Revival 4:2 (Spring 1995): 59-62. |
| Cultivating Holiness (.pdf) |
Joel R. Beeke, Reformation & Revival 4:2 (Spring 1995): 81-112. |
| The Sources of Our Sanctification (.pdf) |
Tom Wells, Reformation & Revival 11.4 (Fall 2002): 95-107. |
| The Priority of Justification in Calvin’s Theology (.pdf) |
Brendon Link |
| A Perfect Work: Trials and Sanctification in the Book of James |
Ron Julian (.pdf) |
| Sin and Perfection in 1 John (.pdf) |
Colin G. Kruse |
| Sanctification: Living by the Gospel (.pdf) |
Les Newsome on how people change |
| Sanctification and the Nature of the Gospel |
William B. Evans |
| Why “Let Go and Let God” Is a Bad Idea |
Andrew Naselli |
| What Is Sanctification? |
Roger Smalling, D.Min |
| Sanctification, Half Full: The Myopic Hermeneutic of the "Grace" Movement (.pdf) |
Timothy F. Kauffman |
| Sanctification |
Wayne Grudem |
John Piper (10 links)
The Pursuit of Holiness
Keep in Step with the Spirit
The Discipline of Grace