Show Notes: 
Paul  Tripp discusses his heart behind his recent book release on suffering, “Suffering: gospel hope when life doesn’t make sense”, which was largely due to his own recent experiences in suffering through acute renal failure. Listen as Paul shares the nature of suffering and our response to it. 

"Tweetable Tripp one-liners" from the episode  

• Suffering is spiritual warfare 
• Suffering isn’t neutral, we never come to suffering empty;  we don’t suffer the thing your suffering, you suffer the way your suffering the thing your suffering.  
• We have a dark ability to trouble our own trouble.   
• Our bad theology is making a mess of our suffering.  
• God doesn’t need us to be healthy to use us; that’s a human way of thinking.  
• The move of grace is not from dependency to independency, but the move of grace is from independence to dependence.  
•  We’re afraid to be honest and transparent because we don’t believe the gospel.  
• As Christians, we should be able to be the most honest community on the on the earth. 
• As christians we struggle with believing the now-ism of the goepl of Jesus Christ. 
• As christians, we need to stop having cosmetic relationships. 
• God makes his invisible grace visible  by sending people of grace to give grace to people who need grace, that’s how it works, modeling that incarnational  living. 
• Our weakness is God’s workroom. 

Episode Resource Links:

• Paul Tripp  Ministries - New Morning Mercies   
• Paul Tripp App