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May 2010

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Survival Skill 1 - You have to know where you came from.

Life is bigger than your marriage, your job, your car, your vacation. Life is bigger than you.

A little toddler just learning to talk runs to her Mommy and says, “Mommy, Mommy, I thinked about what you just said.”

And Mommy says, “No, no dear. It’s not thinked, ‘I thinked.’ It’s, ‘I thought.’”

Now think about this for a moment. This little encounter is amazingly human. It’s all about what human beings are actually like. It’s this little girl, this human being, with a desire to know and to understand, and her God-given ability to learn, has learned a rule of the English language. She has learned that if you want to form a verb in the past tense, you generally add an -ed to the present tense. Now, what parent has ever had that conversation with their child? Or said at about 18 months to their child, “Dear, you’re going to want to conjugate the language in the past tense.” You don’t have to do that because you’ve given birth to a child; who never, ever, ever stops thinking. Continue reading.



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What Did You Expect? - Hardcover Book
Now In Stock - Just Released!!!

Internationally known speaker, pastor, teacher and author calls engaged and married couples to a grace-based lifestyle of daily reconciliation, marked by six practical commitments. Marriage, according to Scripture, will always involve two flawed people living with each other in a fallen world. Yet, in Paul Tripp's professional experience, the majority of couples enter marriage with unrealistic expectations, leaving them unprepared for the day-to-day realities of married life.

This unique book introduces a biblical and practical approach to those realities that is rooted in God's faithfulness and Scripture's teaching on sin and grace. "Spouses need to be reconciled to each other and to God on a daily basis," Tripp declares. "Since we're always sinners married to sinners, reconciliation isn't just the right response in moments of failure. It must be the lifestyle of any healthy marriage."What Did You Expect? presents six practical commitments that give shape and momentum to such a lifestyle. These commitments, which include honestly facing sin, weakness, and failure; willingness to change; and embodying Christ's love, will equip couples to develop a thriving, grace-based marriage in all circumstances and seasons of their relationship.

Retail price: $21.99. Our price with free shipping: $14.29.

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For small group study, Sunday school, church wide events, or personal use by couples or individuals - this book is great supplemental reading when using the What Did You Expect Live Conference on DVD or CD resource

 
New DVD and CD Resources – Live Conferences recorded on DVD and CD – Great for individual use, small group, Sunday school and church wide events

Portrait of a Struggle
Fallen world, what to think, when to resist

Why are the normal things of everyday life such a struggle? Why is communication so difficult? Why do relationships end up disappointing us? Why do all of us struggle with anger? God has chosen to keep his children in relationships with flawed people in situations in a broken world. But we do not need to be discouraged; God is using all of this to do wonderful things in us and through us. Don't give way to ugly anger. Don't be paralyzed by discouragement. Come and watch a portrait be painted of a much better way. Ten 25 minute sessions on 3 DVDs - Includes a downloadable Leader’s Guide and Discussion Guide – Great for small group use. (Paul Tripp's book "Broken Down House" can be used as supplemental reading with this resource). A CD version is also available.

Retail Price: $59.95, Our Price: $39.95

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Lost in the Middle
Live Conference on DVD
Although the topic appears to be targeted at midlife, it addresses universal struggles of every human being and that makes it a wonderful conference for young people as well, who will unavoidably face these things. It's an excellent way to prepare for the road ahead. You do not have to be paralyzed by regret, defeated by aging, and discouraged by the passing of your dreams. You do not have to make greater trouble out of the trouble you are already experiencing. This time of life, which can seem like the end of many things, can actually welcome you to a brand new way of living. As is so often the case in your walk with the Lord, this moment of pain is also a moment of grace. Recorded live on 3 DVDs in ten 25-minute sessions. Includes a reproducible Discussion Guide and Leader’s Guide - PDF. Ideal for use by Small Groups, Sunday school, individual use.

* Mid-life can be messy. Dreams may be unfulfilled. Aches and pains can accumulate, along with regrets and worries. How grateful I am to have Paul Tripp as a faithful guide through this challenging season. This material is infused with biblical truth, gospel hope, and real-life connections. Unlike so much teaching available today, this material won’t be irrelevant in six months. It will have a long shelf-life because it is anchored in timeless truth. As a pastor, and a middle-aged one at that, I highly recommend this material for all who are ‘in the middle,’ or who one day will be. - Mark Mullery, Senior Pastor, Sovereign Grace Church, Fairfax, VA

Retail price: $59.95. Our price: $39.95 (also available in CD) To order this live conference on DVD or view a video preview “click here.”

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New Resources soon to be released!!!

Getting to the Heart of Parenting – A wonderful parenting conference recorded live for parents of all age children from infant through teens. Parenting is more than using your power to get children to behave in certain ways. Parenting is all about the exposure and change of the child’s heart. When the heart of a child changes the behavioral change that is needed will last. Learn how to be an instrument of heart changing grace in the little moments of life that God will give you with your children, whether they are toddlers or teens.

I am encouraged to say that the conference was very helpful to our congregation. Paul did an excellent job communicating what we long to stress in our parenting. The content of the conference aimed at our own hearts and drove us to see our own need for Christ while also equipping us with some practical steps to implement. Paul’s delivery of the conference combined the seriousness of the parenting task with laughter and confessional examples of his own life. To better equip our people to engage in personal and community transformation, we have purchased several resources from the resource table and look forward to tapping into Paul Tripp Ministries in the future. - Dax Gibson, Christ Community Presbyterian Church, Lakeland, FL


Session 1 & 2:  What is a family?
Session 3 & 4:  Getting to the Heart of Behavior.
Session 5 & 6:  Ages 0-5
Session 7 & 8:  Ages 6-12
Session 9 & 10:  Ages 13 - ?

Retail Price: $59.95, Our Price: $39.95 with free shipping.

Expected release date – June 1, 2010 (will be 10 – 25 minute sessions on 3 DVDs with a downloadable and reproducible discussion guide and leader’s guide. (A CD version will also be available)

Your Christian School: A Culture of Grace? - Live Conference on DVD

Christian school teachers, administrators, teachers and staff - Is your school something more than a system of rules, offenses and punishments? What is the vision that propels the mission of your Christian school? Are you content with behavior control and the dissemination of knowledge? Are you asking the law to do what only grace can accomplish? Rules restrain sin, rules expose sin, but rules will never deliver a child from sin. A biblical worldview tells us that what is wrong with children is something more profound than lack of information and skill. Christian education is war! - Not a war between teacher and student, student and student or administration and student.  All these struggles are the fruit of a deeper struggle. This conference will help you win the deeper war for the hearts and minds of our children. It is only when your school is a functional culture of grace that real, lasting character change will take place and your classrooms will become peaceful places of learning. Learn how to critique your school culture and how your classrooms can become a culture of grace where heart change takes place and education can thrive.  Recorded live at a Christian School conference on 3 DVDs. Ten 25 minutes sessions with reproducible Leader’s Guide and Discussion Guide – Ideal for school In-Service Day.

Retail Price: $59.95, Our Price: $39.95 with free shipping

Expected release date – July 1, 2010 (now available on CD - Click Here)

International Outreach!!! Thanks to our many supporters Paul Tripp has been able to speak about the “transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life” in many countries throughout the world. Scheduled for the upcoming months are trips to Dubai, South Africa. Singapore, Germany and the Dominican Republic. Please consider helping us through your prayers and financial support.

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