What kind of cake are you?

It seems like the social networking site Facebook has become overrun in recent days with various quizzes wanting to know what you are. What 80’s song are you? What kind of dog are you? What kind of shoes are you? What childhood toy are you?
While I am sure my life would be complete if I [...]

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Instruments, Part 6

The last two chapters of the book deal with the action aspect of change in the heart of the church as a whole. While the first three parts of the personal ministry—Love, know and speak—are vital to the confrontation of people in sin, this last aspect, the doing aspect, is the key to keeping one [...]

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Instruments, Part 5

Chapters Nine and Ten offer what is certainly the strongest accusation against the church today: “We tend to have permanently casual relationships that never grow into real intimacy. There are things we know about each other, but they fool us into thinking that we know the human being who live within the borders of those [...]

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Instruments, Part 4

Chapters Seven and Eight deal with Tripp’s concept of Christian love and how followers of Christ should interact with one another in loving relationships. In order for the reader to become an instrument for the radical change needed in the hearts of people today, Tripp states it is necessary to consider the following point: “I [...]

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Instruments, Part 3

The discussion of the heart and the two forms of treasure in Chapter Four set up the argument in Chapter Five that the battle for the heart of man is indeed a war: a war between Christ and his Word and sin and self. Conflict, Tripp states, “is one of the principal effects of the [...]

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