Holiness. The word may conjure up images of someone who's boring or stoic. Here's Nancy Lee

DeMoss to refresh our thinking. I think it's time for us to reclaim holiness as it really

is presented in the scripture, in its beauty and in its splendor, to see that true holiness

is something exquisite.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, July 20th, 2015.

Nancy has written a trilogy of books about attitudes of a godly heart.

The first is brokenness.

We told you about that two weeks ago.

Last week, we focused on surrender, the heart God controls.

Today, we begin a series on holiness, the third topic in that trilogy.

The series is called The Splendor of Holiness. I want to talk this week about a word

that Andrew Murray called the most profound word in the Bible. And I don't know what you think

that word would be, but the word we want to talk about is

holiness. Now, I have to admit that holiness is a word that has fallen on hard times. Kind of like

modesty or chastity or purity. It's not a word that people talk a lot about around the dinner

table, for example. And it's not exactly an easy subject to sell the subject of

holiness. I don't think it's one of the top ten topics that people look for in a Christian

bookstore, for example. And I don't think there are a lot of hit songs that I've heard

anyway about holiness. In fact, I think I can count on two hands probably the number of messages

that I have ever heard on the subject of holiness.

It's something that we talk about in theology classes, but not in everyday conversation.

And you'll hear the word holy or holiness in some praise songs and choruses,

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