Broken Down House

I've just barely started reading and already it's amazing! I'm dealing with some issues in my home and it seems that prayers just aren't being answered quickly enough. One of the chapters starts with a scenario where the author is asking his children to just TRUST him - in spite of the fact that it doesn't seem like what he's doing is the right thing. He asks them to remember that he loves them, that he has never hurt them,... Read Full Review

AS CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD, THE AUTHOR REMINDS US OF OUR DAY TO DAY INFLUENCES AND OUR NEED TO BECOME WHO WE ARE NOT LATER BUT NOW...MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN A WORLD BEING BOMBARDED WITH EVIL

This is one of the most realistic books about life that I have read. Author Paul David Tripp acknowledges that this is a beautiful and broken world. He is neither overly optimistic, like so many books that claim to offer the "key idea or practice" that will unlock everything, nor overly pessimistic, holding out no hope of progress or joy. The book begins with making sure that the reader understands the condition of the... Read Full Review

God has a restorer's eye! If that were not true, He would stop at the curb, examine our broken-down lives and drive off. But, He is not that way. He has intimate knowledge of our condition, and even while we were His enemies - Christ died to restore us (Romans 5:8). After being redeemed, it becomes our privilege to join with God in this restoration project of our broken-down world. Paul Tripp's latest book was written... Read Full Review