Growing up in Grace: The Use of Means for Communion with God, by Murray G. Brett

Paperback, 192 pages
Retail Price: $13.00
RHB Price: $10.00
ISBN 978-1-60178-061-4
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Contents:
Introduction
1. Finding Happiness in Communion with God
2. The Grace of Humility
3. The Grace of Confession
4. The Grace of Repentance
5. Lord, Keep Me from All Sin
6. The Highest Motive of Repentance
7. The Price of Brokenness
8. How to Repent of Daily Sins
9. A Catalogue of Sins Too Seldom Confessed
10. The Grace of Prayer
11. A Guide for Personal Daily Prayer
12. The Grace of Law
13. Lay Your Gold in the Dust
Making the Most of this Book in Small Groups
Endorsements:
“Murray Brett has absorbed the best of Puritan wisdom on the matter of sanctification. In his own easy-to-read style, he applies that knowledge to the biblical subject of spiritual growth—and the result is an extremely potent book. Growing Up in Grace will be a wonderfully helpful resource for any Christian who wants to remain on track in the pursuit of Christlikeness and maturity.”—John MacArthur
“The Christian life is an exciting and challenging life from beginning to end. There is no room for standing still and if we are tempted to do this we soon find that stagnation is the same as going backwards. We must grow spiritually and this means we must grow in the way the Bible lays down for us. Murray Brett seeks to show us this way by working through such things as humility, confession, repentance, prayer, etc. These and other basic truths are dealt with in a clear and biblical way with plenty of illustration and application. All believers will benefit from a careful and prayerful reading of this book.”—Peter Jeffery
“My friend, Pastor Murray Brett is a fine carpenter. He is skilled with hammer and nails to build houses and furniture. He has also demonstrated in this helpful book how he is also a skilled Gospel carpenter. He has hit the nail right on the head. His quest for an “experiential knowledge” of Jesus Christ in the intimacy of a genuine communion with God in the soul is exactly what this pragmatic age needs. And in these days of many recapturing the doctrines of the reformed faith, reformation all too often never gets past being heady and doctrinaire with theological knowledge. Murray calls us to the realm of ‘knowing God,’ personally and daily, that brings on a full-orbed gospel experience which is truly the essence of what it is to walk with God, and to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here he has truly constructed in print a very practical and pastoral approach to delving into the mystery of soul communion with Christ. Every reader hungry for Christ will be helped by its pages”—Bob Selph
“This is not a self-help book. This is a self-exposure book. With our self-absorption laid bare, Murray leads us to look to God for the joy of our salvation. Each short chapter begins with Scripture, includes a helpful illustration, and follows with challenging questions. You will spend many hours meditating on the gifts and graces in a believer’s life of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.”—Wayne Roper
“Years ago I saw the phrase in a Reformed periodical, ‘experiential Calvinism.’ I said to myself, ‘That is what I want for myself!’ It is just such a wedding of biblical theology and sound piety that moves Pastor Murray Brett. Like two of his heroes, John Owen and Jonathan Edwards, Pastor Brett seeks to turn his biblical studies to holiness and experiential piety. To use a quaint Puritan phrase, ‘Here is the marrow and fatness of the Reformed faith and an experiential walk with God.’—Steve Martin
Murray G. Brett has pastored Grace Baptist Church of Commerce, Georgia for twelve years (www.gracecommerce.org). He desires to be used of God to raise up able and faithful men to plant other experiential Reformed churches in Northeast Georgia and beyond, and to pass on a living heritage of experiential Reformed doctrine and life for future generations.



An excellent book. I’ve posted a review on my blog this morning.
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