What Did You Expect?

What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage by Paul David Tripp

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Paul Tripp puts out a lot of books, and they are all good.

He holds up a mirror to normal people’s lives and how sin is messing us up.
He targets the heart – our desires are off base and need recalibrating.
He uses Scripture well to offer real solutions that aren’t simple or cliché.

Here he addresses the marriage that has moved past the honeymoon stage into some significant problems, possibly even wondering if it is over. This can be a huge opportunity to grow spiritually, more so than the honeymoon phase.

Tripp can be wordy, but that can help slow you down and really consider, which is hard for us to do these days.
He also focuses almost solely on the heart, making it quite individualistic in application. Seldom does he mention the church or mentoring couples as substantively helpful. This is the biggest oversight in his writing. But what he does – apply to the heart – he does well.



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