Paul David Tripp

I love this article on womanhood from Paul David Tripp, answering a very important question: “Is your view of women aligned with your theology?” We shouldn’t ever violate what Scripture commands in an attempt to be relevant, but we should exercise the freedom to do whatever Scripture allows, to grant women the widest and deepest and most meaningful roles in Christ’s body.  

“For a believer, nothing in his or her life is unchanged by the gospel. If you look at life from the vantage point of the present benefits of the person, work, presence, and promises of the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing in your life looks the same.”

Nanci and I have been reading Paul David Tripp’s book New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional. It is just terrific, and we highly recommend it. In his March 31 entry, Paul talks about how Christ’s darkest moment gives us hope when we face our own dark times.

The Bible tells us we are pilgrims, strangers, aliens, ambassadors working far from home. But we’ve become so attached to this world that we forget our true home, built for us by our bridegroom. This makes us prone to spiritual amnesia, or as Paul David Tripp says, it makes us “eternity amnesiacs.” 

I’ve been reading a great new book by Paul David Tripp titled Come Let Us Adore Him. Though by the time you read this it will be too late to get the book for Christmas, I suggest you buy it and just pay no attention to the dates December 1-31! I read the December 2 entry in this blog on December 18 and it meant just as much to me then as it would have on the 2nd.