Overview
Broken Down House:
Living Productively in a World Gone Bad
You live in a fallen world. The temptation is everywhere. It's hard not to love the world and the things that are in the world. It's hard to love an invisible God more than the visible things that surround you. It's hard not to offer God a few pieces of your life while retaining most of it for yourself. It's hard not to reduce your walk with God down to a formal, external religion that lays no claim to the interior on your life. It's hard to grasp that you actually have to die before you can live. It's hard to grasp that your life is no longer your own. This book was written to help you!!
Picture a broken down house. We’ve all seen them—sagging and dilapidated dwellings that look as if they are in physical pain. You wonder what the house once looked like, who lived in it, and how it got into such a miserable condition. Some of us look at this kind of house and are simply overwhelmed. We quickly move on, not for a moment considering the possibility of restoration. Others of us immediately see potential. We can’t wait to get our hands on the mess and restore it to its former beauty. Sin has ravaged the beautiful house that God created. It sits in slumped and disheveled pain, groaning for the restoration that can only be accomplished by the hands of him who built it in the first place. The good news is that the divine Builder will not relent until everything about his house is made totally new again. The bad news is that you and I are living right in the middle of the restoration process. We live each day in a house that is terribly broken, where nothing works exactly as intended. But Emmanuel lives here as well, and he is at work returning his house to its former beauty. Often it doesn’t look like any real restoration is going on at all. Things seem to get messier, uglier, and less functional all the time. But that’s the way it is with restoration; things generally get worse before they get better. Someday you will live forever in a fully restored house. But right now you are called to live with peace, joy, and productivity in a place that has been sadly damaged by sin. How can you live above the damage? Even better, how can you be an active part of the restoration that is at the heart of God’s plan of redemption? That is what Broken Down House is all about.
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" Paul Tripp reminds us that although we often feel helpless, we are actually filled with the same life-giving, world changing power that resurrected Jesus from the grave. As we embrace this power we can enter the most dilapidated rooms of creation and transform them through the love of Christ."
- KEN SANDE, President, Peacemaker Ministries
"There is a lot of biblical wisdom here, exactly what we have come to expect from its author. Paul Tripp makes plain how we can truly experience the restoration of a broken-down life ravaged by sin but made new in Christ."
- Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
"Paul's writing meets us where we are and directs us to where God has called us to be. If you need to understand how Scripture sparks change in real life, read Tripp!"
- Dave Harvey, Sovereign Grace Ministries, Church Planting and Church Care
"Paul Tripp shows that even though Christians remain broken people living in a broken world, God has equipped us to become his agents of renewal. The fact that he has chosen to use our broken but redeemed heads, hearts, and hands to do his work ought ot both encourage us and rouse us to hopeful action. Read this helpful book. It will do your soul good."
- Tullian Tchividjian, Senior Pastor, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church
Below are some of the radio broadcasts covering the themes in
Broken Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad.
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Survival Skills
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| 03 Intro-Survival Skills for a Fallen World |
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| 04 Survival Skill 1 |
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| 05 Survival Skill 2 |
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| 06 Survival Skill 3 |
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