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The Paul Tripp Podcast

134. A Danger To Yourself [Street-Level Christianity 4]

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

4.9781 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you could stand before God and ask, without shame or embarrassment, the difficult questions of life, what questions would you ask? In today’s episode, Paul Tripp asks three brutally honest questions - and finds three helpful answers - as we continue through his series Street-Level Christianity from the book of James.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

0:11.0

If you could stand before God and ask, without shame or embarrassment, the difficult questions of life, what questions would you ask?

0:19.0

In today's episode, Paul Tripp asks three brutally honest questions and finds three helpful answers

0:25.1

as we continue through his series, Street Level Christianity from the book of James.

0:30.1

Here's Paul.

0:33.1

Sometimes you're tempted to wonder if it's worth it.

0:38.3

Sometimes it seems so hard.

0:45.3

Sometimes it's very confusing.

0:52.3

The life that God has called you to isn't always easy.

0:57.0

One of the things I love about the Bible is how honest it is.

1:03.0

How honest it is about the struggles of faith.

1:08.0

I love the fact that Scripture doesn't avoid the hard questions.

1:13.6

Scripture doesn't avoid the harsh realities of living in a fallen world.

1:20.6

There are weird sort of stories in Scripture.

1:26.6

There are stories that are graphically honest

1:30.6

about the kinds of things that happen in this broken world.

1:37.0

There is, in the scripture, those confusing cries of faith.

1:42.7

How long, oh Lord?

1:51.1

How long, oh Lord? How long? And one of the things I appreciate so much about James is James really does believe in a sturdy gospel. James believes that because of the grace of God, we don't have to deny, we don't have to avoid.

2:05.8

We don't have to explain things away.

2:08.9

We don't have to put a saccharine smile on our faces and act like it's okay.

2:17.0

We can bring a real heart of real questions and real struggle before a God who's

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