Relationships: A Mess Worth Making

by Paul David Tripp and Timothy S. Lane

Book Overview

Relationships are messy. In this deeply insightful book by Paul David Tripp and Timothy S. Lane, readers are presented with the power of grace to redeem and restore relationships. Through straightforward language, the authors walk through the relational disappointments we all suffer by offering deep, Christ-centered thought and broad counseling experience. Relationships dwells on fresh hope and practical answers, exposing deeper issues that keep relationships...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977080765
• ISBN13: 9780977080762
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

WOW!

I'm the person that NEVER leaves reviews but this book is really something special- I had to. The way I found this book is interesting. I was searching the web looking for something that speaks about trouble within a Christian relationship and what God says about it. I found a article that just so happened to be the first chapter of this book. I shared it with my boyfriend and it helped us both see relationships the way God intended them to be. So I just had to get the whole book. I've read a lot of books about relationships but this is the best I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I had to thank God for this one, it's a blessing. Also thank you to the two men that wrote this book, it helps in ways you might never know. This is a must read for every Christian!

Don't Judge This Book by it's Cover

On the top of the back cover it reads, "Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships": unless you are prideful, blind, or live in a cave that sentence will appeal to you. Tripp and Lane once again deliver an impressive book. Relationships are messy but through 15 chapters the authors show us that they are indeed a mess worth making. Inside this excellent work you will find advice for conversations, apologies, forgiveness, mercy, how to use your time and money, and much more. But more importantly each chapter is gospel-saturated. This book does not only define the problem it offers the only biblical solution--Christ and Him crucified. This seems like such a petty thing to say...but...the cover really turns me off to the book. It makes it look like a book for high school students. Either that or something that a grandmother made and she just had to get all of her grandkids on the cover. Inside, one thing concerns me and that is the use of The Message for many Scripture passages. While I find that paraphrase helpful at times, I think a fair amount of people are turned off to it. I sincerely hope that it does not distract from the beautiful message of this book. One other, minor disappointment that I hope gets corrected in the second edition (if there is one), is that the authors refer to the wrong James as the author of the Epistle of James. Easy mistake, but again I hope it does not hurt their credibility. These dislikes are minor and the overall tenor of this book is phenomenal. If every member of our churches followed the biblical guidelines outlined in this book then our churches would be much healthier places. Once again Tripp and Lane bring us to the foot of the Cross and therein points us to healing in our relationships.

A most valuable read

I just finished this book and I already want to read it again. I underlined and highlighted continually, and have already recommended it to so many. The book surprised me...I thought it was going to be methods and suggestions for improving relationships. Instead, the authors offer the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ for relational life. I really needed to read this!

Big Time Eye Opener

At first I thought this book was just going to be another stupid book about relationships, but as I began to read I quickly realized that this was going to be a stupid book about relationships. But Tim Lane and Paul Tripp approached this book differently than what I expected. They were not only showing me what a biblical relationship looks like with other brothers and sisters in Christ, but they were also reminding me that all relationships have an inner relationship and that one is with God. And when you have a problem in your relationships with others, you need to start looking deeper in your relationship with God. This whole book I was challenge and now I am starting to look at relationships from a whole new perspective. God's perspective and how do these relationships glorify and honor God. I definitely recommend this book.

A Book Worth Reading

This is one of the best books written on the subject from a distinctly Christian viewpoint but valuable for non-Christians as well.