Only One Gift

Only One Gift

Only One Gift From Paul Tripp Ministries You have given me many gifts wondrous merciful rescuing healing transforming gifts. They have given me life strength hope and a future. But there is only one gift that I can hold in my hands one gift that I can see with my...
Canaries and Coal Mines

Canaries and Coal Mines

Canaries and Coal Mines From Paul Tripp Ministries One of my earlier pastoral jobs was in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Before the U.S. television show The Office made it comically famous, my family and I knew Scranton as home. In this old coal-mining town, the American...
Landscape of the Heart

Landscape of the Heart

Landscape of the Heart From Paul Tripp Ministries The landscape of the human heart is not smooth, well lit, free from confusion and complication. The landscape of the human heart is rough and varied, huge mountains, dark valleys, parched streams, crooked pathways,...
Scarecrows In A Cucumber Field

Scarecrows In A Cucumber Field

Scarecrows In A Cucumber Field From Paul Tripp Ministries It wasn’t long into my adult life that I realized I wouldn’t make a very good Stoic. I tend to find much too much pleasure in the material things around me. Whether it is a fine painting, a delicious meal, or a...
What In The World Is Grace?

What In The World Is Grace?

What In The World Is Grace? From Paul Tripp Ministries There is no one no matter who they are no matter where they are no matter how young no matter how old. There is no one no matter their successes no matter their failures no matter how very rich no matter how...
Idolatry Of The Body

Idolatry Of The Body

Idolatry Of The Body From Paul Tripp Ministries Last week I wrote about the difficult process of aging. It’s accompanied by new aches and pains, a changing body shape, loss of energy, and the inevitable reality that you are one day closer to death. How cheerful! In...