#Jerry Bridges

[reformedfaith]

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

Jerry Bridges

[nao-ao-evangelho-de-facilidades]

Assim como nossa musculatura física não se fortalece sem exercícios, a nossa vida espiritual não crescerá sem as circunstâncias que nos desafiam (...) Deus não nos tenta ao pecado, mas proporciona ou permite circunstâncias que nos dão a chance de matar aqueles pecados sutis característicos de nossa individualidade.

Jerry Bridges em Pecados intocáveis p.43

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"This is not make-believe. You are indeed guilty in yourself, but God no longer regards you as guilty, because the guilt of your sin has already been borne by Christ as your substitute. The sentence has been served. The penalty has been paid. To use Paul’s expression, you have died to sin’s guilt." - Jerry Bridges

[slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ]

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

-Jerry Bridges

[herbiblicalcounsel]

God is sovereign over every person and event in our lives. If we trust that God is in control, we can let go the heavy burden we often try to carry on our own shoulder - the burden of trying to control other people and our situations. How can you surrender control & trust in God today?

[martyschoenleber]

The Relationship Between Farming and Holiness

Analogies are helpful and here is a good one from a godly leader who now lives with Jesus. Jerry Bridges was a long time staff member with the Navigators, a discipleship ministry that started in the military but has expanded in to worldwide discipling movement.   Wise words from Jerry Bridges and his classic book The Pursuit of Holiness. Here’s the analogy that Bridges uses: “Farming is a joint…

[lrgabriel]

Can God Be Trusted?

Trusting God, Even When Life Hurts by Jerry Bridges “No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father’s attention; no circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.” “An unreserved trust of God , when we don’t understand what is happening or why, is the only road to peace and comfort and joy.” I’ve read and reviewed several books by Jerry Bridges, and like his others,…

[agungrichardelvonscestmavie]

_"Kepahitan bangkit dalam hati kita ketika kita tidak percaya dengan kedaulatan Allah bagi hidup kita."_ ~ Jerry Bridges

[conanssummerchild]

i was just thinking about the look on down from the bridge moments in rick and morty bcs im obsessed with them and i started like way overanalysing shit (as always tee hee) so im posting it here

so like while both are following a really traumatising moment for one character that doesnt feel traumatic for another (morty being absolutely horrified seeing his own bludgeoned dead body, rick unphased, just another day in his life lol. and rick killing the man hes destroyed himself hunting for half his life and realising he doesnt feel any better, while for morty it was just another adventure) but then there's also differences, lets break them down >:)

sorry for the shitty image quality as always lmao

morty's look on down from the bridge moment:

okay so right before it starts the last thing we see is rick being very dismissive of how horrifying this is for morty

im not sure tbh if rick is really aware of how traumatic this is for morty (clueless little man <3) but morty does quite clearly express his horror and rick dismisses it, kinda showing how morty is often pushed to the side and ignored by characters on the show

next we see morty looking down at the corpse with his traumatised look and rick nudges him to get moving, instead of comforting him or smth

again showing that morty is like dismissed and kinda emotionally neglected, especially by rick, but also by other characters

the next bit is just him burying the body, just showing again what it is that has him in this dissociative state

pretty self explanatory

then, and heres where it starts to get interesting, we see morty watching his parents arguing

(sorry, hes not watching them in that specific shot but he does when the angle changes yk)

obviously he's having a Moment about them not being his original parents and how hes in a whole new dimension and no one even knows except him and his emotionally inept grandpa, but also he stands there for a good moment and his parents don't even notice hes there, they just ignore him

after that, we see summer and rick sitting on the sofa, rick watching tv and summer on her phone

morty just stands there and stares at them and summer doesnt even look up (we've already established rick isnt going to) its like hes invisible to the people around him

and then we just get a zoomed in shot of morty's horrified face aaand roll credits

(no picture attatched, sorry, i think we all know what mortys face looks like)

morty is highlighted here, the focus is on him for the audience, we are supposed to see how shaken up this has left morty. no one else is in the shot because no one elses reaction is relevant right now

also i'd like to point out that everything being done by others in mortys lodftb moment is completely mundane, beth and jerry arguing (pretty regular for them) rick just watching tv, normal tv not even interdimensional cable, and summer on her phone. none of this is special or different, this is an average day being ignored for morty, except this time he needs his family more than ever, but still nothing changes

mortys problem portrayed is that ppl dont value him enough or dont pay attention to him. his parents can be emotionally neglectful, he and summer don't have a super close relationship (in later seasons theyre a bit closer), and rick is, well... rick. he pretends not to care about morty, ignores most of what he says, dismisses his feelings, etc.

aaand moving on

rick's look on down from the bridge moment:

this contrasts morty's moment where he is not okay but rick ignores it bcs here morty directly asks if rick is okay and rick lies about it (if u look closely u can see his pants are in fact beginning to catch on fire /j), so morty is chill now bcs he believes him

morty then goes in for a hug (im not attatching an image, im sure you've seen it 100 times) and this is our first sign ricks lying (well i mean. apart from context clues) beacuse usually he would push morty away or complain or be awkward (like in fear no mort lol) or uncomfortable but he just remains completely passive, his expression barely even changes

morty then goes on to ramble excitedly about their epic adventure because rick said hes fine but very quickly mortys voice is drowned out and lodftb begins to play. here morty is blurred out of focus and the camera zooms into rick

okay, so preceding it we have morty asking rick if he's okay, to which he responds yeah (liar 🤨)

this is, again, different from morty's moment because while morty's issue is being ignored, rick is very far from ignored, his issue is that he just like goes through life and the people around him don't realise how much he's hurting. morty isn't seen at all, rick is seen plenty, but he's never understood, not really. does this make sense? idk

anyway, going on, morty keeps contentedly talking in the ship whike rick stares blanky ahead, but when he realises morty expects him to answer, he gives him a nod, since it's whats expected so morty wont think somethings wrong (also the cinematography of the broken ship really adds to the scene i feel.

again, the contrast here is clear, morty is like completely frozen in his scene, and no one notices or cares at all. rick on the other hand contines to go through the motions as he's expected to despite his strong emotional turmoil going on, which we as an audience can see

morty keeps talking as they get back home, but eventually does leave and go idk to bed ig, leaving rick standing in the garage, looking blank and empty

i couldve picked a better picture sorry i just. tell me he doesnt look like the pixar lamp here, im sorry lmao back to serious ok

so next we see him shutting off the power to his rick prime hunting room

this ofc shows its finally over, but the fact that they leave him stanfing in the dark there shows how he doesnt feel better or fufilled like he wished he would

okay, now we get to his family being shown, first up is summer, theyre sitting on the sofa much like in mortys moment, but morty isnt in this one and also summer is not on her phone (unusual) but watching a movie with has popcorn, and she seems happy, she seemingly asks rick to grab some drinks, which he does silently without even complaining (not usual for the whiniest man in the universe lol)

anyway here summer is more cheerful than usual, not just on her phone like she normally always is

next we see the two beths and jerry washing space beths ship, theyre having fun, laughing, messing around and spraying echother with the hose playfully, while rick watches from the window, away from them, actually right when the lyrics playing are "everybody seems so far away from me"

again, this isnt like mortys scene, where everyone is just having an ordinary day and not seeing how everything has changed for him or even looking at him, here everyone seems to be having a lot of fun, without rick, summer and morty both address him directly, but neither realise how Not Okay he is

and lastly we see the whole family at the dinner table, everyone is smiling and chatting amicably, rick is just sitting there still, not even eating. however, he is then addressed and seems to need a moment to zone back in, but when he does he grins and (assumedly?) cracks some kind of joke/says smth that makes everyone laugh (except jerry, who just looks kinda confused this whole scene lmao) and everyone goes back to their meals, rick also taking a bite of his own. however when everyone looks away, his smile drops again and cut to creditssss

the shot doesnt zoom back in on him now like it does for morty in his scene, because the fact that rick is not well has already been established now, instead the angle shows the whole family beacause the point is to show how everyones happy and think he is too because he's putting on His Act, so like the smile fades to show he is not okay but the angle and zoom stays the same to show that it is not seen or like understood to be that way. ykwim?

so here its portrayed that ricks problem is that people dont realise that hes hurting. he comes off as a jerk all the time because of how much suffering he holds inside, how much is going on in his mind (or i mean a lot of the time he just. is a jerk, but this isnt abt that rn), like when bird person tells morty rick is in great pain and morty says "come on bird person, rick isnt that complicated, hes jist a huge asshole" people dont realise it bcs of how much he struggles being vulnerable and talking abt his feelings but my boy is hurtingg :(, so this scene is kinda showing that they assume hes fine but really hes in a lot of emotional turmoil

idk im kinda losing the thread here but i mean i hope this makes at least a little sense, im obsessed with look on down from the bridge :3

[reformedfaith]

Don’t believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

Jerry Bridges

[elfoscuro]

Duel of the Fates

Alec Guinness vs David Prowse in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) by George Lucas

Bill Pullman vs Rick Moranis in Spaceballs (1987) by Mel Brooks

Lloyd Bridges vs Jerry Haleva in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) by Jim Abrahams

[nao-ao-evangelho-de-facilidades]

Pessoas que possuem o sentimento de superioridade moral em relação a terceiros cometem o pecado do orgulho moralista. O orgulho moralista é um dos pecados sutis mais comuns, ficando atrás somente da impiedade, a mãe de todos os pecados. É difícil de ser reconhecido, pois ninguém escapa dele totalmente. Na verdade, parece que sentimos uma alegria perversa em acusar a sociedade de ter perdido a vergonha. Quando adotamos esse tipo de mentalidade ou fazemos esse tipo de comentário, escorregamos no pecado da superioridade moral. Como nos guardaremos desse pecado? Primeiro, adotando uma atitude humilde baseada na verdade de que "é só pela graça de Deus que não estou na mesma situação." Se somos moralmente corretos, e especialmente se somos cristãos que buscam viver de maneira correta, é só porque a graça de Deus prevalece em nós, pois ninguém é naturalmente correto. Segundo, nos identificando perante Deus com a sociedade pecadora em que vivemos. Profetas e importantes homens de Deus fizeram isso, como Daniel, Isaías, Esdras entre outros que, testemunhando a degradação moral dos seus compatriotas, adotaram uma posição humilde diante de Deus e foram protegidos do orgulho da autorretidão.

Adaptado de Jerry Bridges em Pecados Intocáveis

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

While God most often appeals to our wills through our reason, sin and Satan usually appeal to us through our desires.

Jerry Bridges

[slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ]

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against Him.

-Jerry Bridges

[herbiblicalcounsel]

What an encouragement this should be to us! If we trust God, we can be confident that while God will allow nothing to undermine His glory, He will also allow nothing that is not meant for our good.

[martyschoenleber]

Developing a Heart that Fears God

Cultivating the Fear of God as a Lifestyle This past Sunday I had the privilege of teaching a class on the fear of God. This was my third session of about 8 in the class. Today’s assignment for me as a teacher was “how do we cultivate a life that demonstrates a fear of God?” That is a great question to ask. If the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, how could it not be wise to ask that…