Quotes from Paul David Tripp

If you're God's child, you will never again have just you to depend on. No, you've been blessed, right here, right now, with grace.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

Peace isn't a faded dream. No, Peace is real. Peace is a person, and his name is Jesus.

Our problem is that we tend to be unfaithful to his holy agenda and get kidnapped by our plans for us and our dreams for our lives. The trials in our lives exist not because he has forgotten us, but because he remembers us and is changing us by his grace. When you remember that, you can have joy in the middle of what is uncomfortable.

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

We simply weren't constructed to live only for ourselves. We were placed on earth to be part of something bigger than the narrow borders of our own survival and our own little definition of happiness. The desire resides in each of us, and it is called transcendence. To transcend is to be part of something greater. We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

your hope is not to be found in your willingness and ability to endure, but in God's unshakable, enduring commitment to never turn from his work of grace.

The resurrection tells you what Jesus is now doing. Jesus now reigns. First Corinthians 15 says that he will continue to reign until the final enemy is under his feet. You see, your world is not out of control, but under the careful control of One who is still doing his sin-defeating work.

If you aren't daily admitting to yourself that you are a mess and in daily and rather desperate need for forgiving and transforming grace, and if the evidence around has not caused you to abandon your confidence in your own righteousness, then you are going to give yourself to the work of convincing yourself that you are okay.

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

It's never hopeless and you're never helpless if Immanuel has invaded your life with his glory and grace.

Your heart will never be satisfied in things. No, your heart will be satisfied only in the Giver of the things. If you seek happiness, happiness will elude you.

In fact, one of the things that makes a sermon compelling is that the preacher is worshiping his way through his own sermon.

His discipline, therefore, is never the result of his rejection, but the fruit of his acceptance.

Nuestras bendiciones nunca son el pago por el bien que hemos hecho, y nuestras pruebas nunca son un castigo por los males que hemos cometido.

Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.

in these moments of challenge the people of God would panic because they were identity amnesiacs. They would forget who they were as the children of God and they would forget who God is in all his almighty power and glory.

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

God designed us to live in community, first with him and then with one another.

You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.