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Paul Tripp

Paul Tripp is a pastor and best-selling author of more than 20 books, including Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make.

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Romantic Love Is a Wonderful Gift — and a Terrible God

Romantic Love Is a Wonderful Gift — and a Terrible God

Romance can neither ground nor sustain a good marriage. We need something deeper, and much more steadfast to stand on.

The Power of Words and the Wonder of God

The Power of Words and the Wonder of God

Words carry an immeasurable significance: by his word God created the world, and by our words we worship God.

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The Spiritual Battle with Weight Loss

The Spiritual Battle with Weight Loss

Diets and quick-fix programs for weight loss don’t work because weight loss is actually a spiritually battle that requires us to get our hearts right first.

Preach the Gospel to Yourself

Theology Refresh: Podcast for Christian Leaders

Paul Tripp talks frankly about the vital discipline of preaching the gospel to ourselves.

God's Wisdom, Your Relationships

God’s Word really does open up to us the mysteries of the universe. It really does make us wiser than we could ever be without it. And yet, having said all this, it's sad that we don’t take more advantage…

You Are Not the Author of Your Story

You Are Not the Author of Your Story

Don’t live merely for your own story — your own dreams, ambitions, and desires. Live for the story that will never end.

You Don’t Need More Parenting Advice

You Don’t Need More Parenting Advice

Before seeking out nuggets of advice for practical issues in raising children, Christian parents must begin with a gospel foundation.

Two Verses Held Me Through Suffering

Two Verses Held Me Through Suffering

You may suffer intensely. You may suffer unfairly. You may suffer chronically. But in Christ, you will never suffer alone.

Suffering Revealed How Weak I Was: What I Learned from Kidney Failure

Suffering Revealed How Weak I Was

What I Learned from Kidney Failure

Suffering is never just a matter of the body, but is always also a matter of the heart. When we suffer, our hearts are under attack.

Five "Benefits" of Unforgiveness (Then the Better Way)

Why don’t people just forgive? That is a very good question. If forgiveness is easier and more beneficial, why isn’t it more popular? The sad reality is that there is short-term, relationally destructive power in refusing to forgive. Holding onto…

Do Not Silence Your Mess: Meeting God in Everyday Chaos

Do Not Silence Your Mess

Meeting God in Everyday Chaos

When life gets messy, when troubles mount and you’re tempted to forget God, let your heart cry out to him.

Trading One Dramatic Resolution for 10,000 Little Ones

Trading One Dramatic Resolution for 10,000 Little Ones

I’ve told the story many times of talking impatiently with my wife one Sunday morning and having my nine-year-old son interject, “Daddy, is this the way a Christian man should be talking to his wife?” Rather sarcastically I said, “What…

Every Other Hope Will Disappoint

Every Other Hope Will Disappoint

Many of us say that our hope is in God, but then spend our days looking elsewhere. What does it mean to hope, really hope, in God?

Debt Is Not a Money Problem

Debt Is Not a Money Problem

Getters can become givers. We can climb out of debt. God’s grace opens the door to a whole new relationship with money.

Are There Lies in Your Christmas Tree? Telling Our Children the True Story

Are There Lies in Your Christmas Tree?

Telling Our Children the True Story

The Advent season tells a tragic and terrific story about a tree. Not the one decorated in the living room, but the one where our salvation was purchased in full.

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War of Words: Getting to the Heart for God’s Sake

War of Words: Getting to the Heart for God’s Sake

Desiring God 2008 National Conference

Our lives are filled to the brim with talk. Our best and worst moments come with talking. Our lives are largely defined by speech and the war of words rages.

Spiritual Muscle Development

So, what happens inside of you when you are asked to wait? Is waiting, for you, a time of stengthening or weakening? Have you ever stopped to consider why God asks you to wait? Let me point you to one…

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Preaching the Gospel to Yourself

Preaching the Gospel to Yourself

Desiring God 2014 Conference for Pastors

Christ’s zeal and purpose for us in ministry difficulty is to take us where we haven’t wanted to go in order to produce in us what we could not achieve on our own.

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My Child’s Greatest Need

My Child’s Greatest Need

Awe is an important principle for parenting. We can cast most of our struggles with our children as helping our kids redirect their awe to the proper place.

A Bitter Harvest?

The Bible is very clear about three things: God's way is always the best way (Psalm 119:160). God's way will not always seem the best way to you (Proverb 14:12). What you plant, you will harvest (Galatians 6:7ff). In every…

You're Fooling Yourself

There's loads of knowledge to be found, but wisdom is a rare commodity. Why? Because wisdom is one of sin's first casualties. It's hard to admit, but true none the less: sin reduces all of us to fools. And the…

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What Is the Daily Aim of Parenting?

What Is the Daily Aim of Parenting?

In the trenches of day-to-day parenting, we need to remember the big picture — namely, that we have the unique opportunity, under God, to shape a form a human soul.

The Grace of Confession (Part 1)

I often wonder how many people are stuck in their relationships in a cycle of repeating the same things over and over again. They repeat the same misunderstandings. They rehearse and re-rehearse the same arguments. They repeat the same wrongs…

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God’s Glory Must Enchant Us

God’s Glory Must Enchant Us

God’s astounding glory and majesty should awe us. If we don’t live with a fearful sense of his glory, then we miss one of our greatest paths to intimacy with God.

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What Sex Outside Marriage Says About You

God has set boundaries for sex not because he wants to deny us some hidden pleasure, but because he wants us to experience the best joy possible.

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