Holier Than Thou

How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him

De: Jackie Hill Perry

Narrado por: Jackie Hill Perry

If God is holy, then he can’t sin. If God can’t sin, then he can’t sin against you. If he can’t sin against you, shouldn’t that make him the most trustworthy being there is? Best-selling author Jackie Hill Perry, in her much anticipated follow-up to Gay Girl, Good God, helps us find the reason we don’t trust God - we misunderstand his holiness. In Holier Than Thou, Jackie walks us through Scripture, shaking the dust off of “holy” as we’ve come to know it and revealing it for what it really is: good news. Here, we will see that God is not like us. He is different. He is holy. And that’s exactly what makes him trustworthy. As it turns out, God being “holier than thou” is actually the best news in the world, and it’s the key to trusting him.

©2021 Jackie Hill Perry (P)2021 B&H Publishing

change is going to come

loved this book. I'm glad I decided to listen to it cause if I didn't I might not have been able to finish it cause of my busy schedule. I was in an sinful relationship with someone and everytime I listened to the book it reminded me of God's holiness and that he wasn't ANY where in that mess. her voice has a nice tone and gives emphasis when needed. thank you Jackie.

Didn’t address the issues I hoped it would, but it’s still excellent

Typically, poetry is emotional. Jackie Hill Perry’s biography, “Gay Girl Good God” was passionate and poetic, but she didn’t seem to want to debate. When making theological statements about homosexuality, she would make brief statements quoting another author.

Not so with “Holier Than Thou”. Perry really is a poet. You could flip to a random page of this book, point blindly at the page, and lift an earth shattering quote that casts old ideas in fresh ways. She is passionate, but her logic and reason resound most strongly quoting everyone from C. S. Lewis and R. C. Sproul to Tony Evans.

Even in the Introduction, Perry floors the reader with perception and wit. She strikes hard on the jaded chord, the unsaid instinct that, if we turn our back, we will be Cain’s next Abel. God’s holiness should be the strongest argument for his trustworthiness, so why do we transfer our distrust of people to God?

She marches systematically through proofs of God’s holiness and its implications, but she didn’t really return to the question of why people seem to lose trust in God. Don’t get me wrong. I agreed with her and found much of the content to be encouraging, I just didn’t feel that she addressed this concern with adequate gusto or emphasis. I would like to read it again. I may have missed this emphasis in all her imagery.

God, is Holy.

I've grown up, always knowing that God is Holy, that He is Holy, holy, holy. This book, was a beautiful, powerful reminder of all that that means, of what it is to say that God is holy, and of where that should put Him in our minds. Never behind the golden calves that haunt us. never behind our own idols and self. God is holy.
This, is beautiful. The way Jackie strings word together until they become poetry, crashing truths into your heart, word after word echoing after as the next ones ring is incredible. If you want to be reminded what it means when God says, He is holy, holy, holy, listen. We cannot fully know, in this life what that means, but I am thankful for the ways that God opens the hearts and the minds of those He has gifted in writing and in words, like RC Sproul and Jackie Hill Perry to speak about things and as weapons to open our eyes a little further about Who our God is.

Oh the holiness of God!

Thank you, Jackie! Always diving deeper into the word after any of your books or studies. Holier Than Thou certainly does just that. It was exceptionally clear on how holy God is and I am not. Although, we will one day be in His presence and we will see Him in His glory and holiness. Whew! 10/10 recommend!

it's simplicity

Jackie has stolen my heart with the way that she can break down scripture and explain things with a Gift only God can give.

Amazing

Best way to spend a road trip…listening to Jackie’s voice as the Spirit speaks and confesses and conveys truth.

Easy to read and listen

Love the way she gives scripture and then gives applications to make it personal to the reader. Her words flow beautifully but at the same time, call us to face the ugly real of our fallen nature up against a Holy God. Jackie Hill Perry has a wonderful testimony-

Beautiful beautiful beautiful

Read like poetry, the author has a sincere love of God. A great option if you want to marinate in Gods holiness

Humbled

I love this book and how it keeps our eyes looking towards Jesus. I feel so blessed to have finally listened. Transformational.

Her title suits this best.

Inspiring, exalts the glory of God. Clarifies the gospel. Impactful. Easy to understand, yet intellectually stimulating. Multiple things on which to search Scripture and upon which one can meditate.