Paul David Tripp expertly traverses the deepest recesses of the human heart and compassionately invites fellow Christian travelers to journey with him into God's bigger kingdom. The author promises readers that they will be encouraged, excited, and motivated by hope as they learn how to set aside their "little kingdom" attachments which can expertly masquerade within the church as Christian activism, legalism, emotionalism, formalism, creedalism, and externalism; in favor of God's expansive and soul-freeing eternal quest.
What if your human parents were violent, deceptive, cold, or even just occasionally disappointing? Can their failures keep you from understanding God's love and having a growing relationship with your heavenly Father? Some say that you can't know God's love unless someone will stand in your parents; place, giving you a loving new image to use in relating to God. But is this true?
Many people in our world view Christianity as an impersonal code of dos and don'ts. John shows us that authentic morality emerges from our identity as children of God: people who walk in the Light, who know Christ and have a vital relationship with him. John teaches that introducing love into morality doesn't lead to relativism, but to action that sets God's children apart from the counterfeit morality of the world.
