Paul David Tripp, Instruments In The Redeemer's Hands: People In Need Of Change Helping People In Need Of Change Quotes
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.
We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.
The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to scue me from myself.
An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands