By Paul David Tripp
Point: This book is “a detailed description of the daily work of love that must be done with commitment and joy when a flawed person is married to a flawed person and they are living together in a fallen world.” (Page 282)
Path: Throughout his book, Tripp presents six different commitments that spouses must make in order to have a God-honoring marriage. He brings in these aspects: confession and forgiveness, changing our daily agendas, building bonds of trust, building relationship of love, dealing with differences with appreciation and grace, and working to protect our marriage.
Agreement: I thought that this book was a very solidly founded on biblical principles for marriage. Marriage books frequently focus solely on romance, but Tripp brings out the fact that everything in life (including marriage) is based on worship. Who am I worshipping, myself or God? He is by no means against romance, but he says that romance is the fruit and not the root of a good marriage.
Disagreement: I did not find principles in this book that I would classify as unbiblical, but I do think that it would have been helpful to have a few more verses accompanying the principles that were listed. Be prepared to read several of the same stories/illustrations a couple of times throughout the book as well.
It would be worth another read and I would recommend it.
3 comments:
My husband and I have the dvd set of this. It is very good! It's been a year since we've had it in our home [loaned it out] but I believe it talks about Cruciform love [a concept to ponder for sure]. We anxiously await the return of the set so we can reference it again. This is definitely a good thing to watch annually to keep things in check.
Also---You can use this link to check this book/dvd set out at:
http://www.paultrippministries.org/store
We've ordered from Paul Tripp's website a couple times and found them to be very nice to work with and fast service!
Thanks for leaving the notes! We watched the videos in our church for an adult Sunday School class and it was very beneficial. Thanks for putting this link on for us!
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