Broken-Down House
Living Productively in a World Gone Bad
by Paul David Tripp
Paperback
Price: £10.99
Publisher:Shepherd Press from Evangelical Press
Published:2009
ISBN:978-0-981-54006-1
GoodBookStall Review:
I have to be honest and say here that I'm not sure whether I enjoyed reading this book or not, but I do know that there were some excellent sections in it that made for great material for house group work - mostly passages that I would determine as great descriptors and in turn explanations of idea's such as assurance, transgression and waiting that help by using real concrete ideas and examples that can really help as a basis for discussion.
The book is divided into two halves, that of knowing and then doing, in other words recognising the problems of sin and procrastination and then acting on them to change them and grow from them. At heart it's an honest book with real depth and intelligence, it does require it's readers to have at the least the intent to want to understand and in turn to want to change. I think perhaps part of my problem was the dichotomy of the depth of theology involved mixed in with the almost word picture development of the stories and the poetry opening each chapter. However this aside I would say this is at the least an excellent source book for working up group studies with.
Reviewer: Melanie Carroll (07/08/10)
I have to be honest and say here that I'm not sure whether I enjoyed reading this book or not, but I do know that there were some excellent sections in it that made for great material for house group work - mostly passages that I would determine as great descriptors and in turn explanations of idea's such as assurance, transgression and waiting that help by using real concrete ideas and examples that can really help as a basis for discussion.
The book is divided into two halves, that of knowing and then doing, in other words recognising the problems of sin and procrastination and then acting on them to change them and grow from them. At heart it's an honest book with real depth and intelligence, it does require it's readers to have at the least the intent to want to understand and in turn to want to change. I think perhaps part of my problem was the dichotomy of the depth of theology involved mixed in with the almost word picture development of the stories and the poetry opening each chapter. However this aside I would say this is at the least an excellent source book for working up group studies with.
Reviewer: Melanie Carroll (07/08/10)
