Holiness and help

This week at In the Clearing, Bob is looking at discipleship and holiness. He's on to something important. Consider:

"I know a lot of Christians who seem never to get beyond the prayer for help and move on to the prayer for holiness."

And this, from Monday:

"Christianity as crisis-management, crying out to God when all hell breaks lose, is one thing. But the long labor of building one's house "on the rock" of Christ's righteousness is another."

Or this, from yesterday:

How can it be that we have turned the Bible into a collection of encouraging sayings for every occasion rather than the great (and supremely encouraging) story of how God chose to face up to the problem of our sin? Mine. Yours.

For nearly three years I've been reading hundreds of blogs each week. At times, a blogger goes into a zone where his posts sizzle with truth and insight. Bob is there right now.