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Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.Paul David Tripp
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The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.Paul David Tripp
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We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.Paul David Tripp
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People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.Paul David Tripp
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We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.Paul David Tripp
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The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.ÂPaul David Tripp
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An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive handsPaul David Tripp
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Real comfort is found when I understand that I am held in the hollow of the hand of the One who created and rules all things. The most valuable thing in my life is God's love, a love that no one can take away. When my identity is rooted in him, the storms of trouble will not blow me away. This is the comfort we offer people. We don't comfort them by saying things will work out. They may not. The people around them may change, but they may not. The Bible tells us again and again that everything around us is in the process of being taken away. God and his love are all that remain as cultures and kingdoms rise and fall. Comfort is found by sinking our roots into the unseen reality of God's ever-faithful love. .Paul David Tripp
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The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.Paul David Tripp
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Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.Paul David Tripp
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Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.Paul David Tripp