Broken-Down House: Living Productively in a World Gone Bad

by Paul David Tripp

The bad news is that you and I are living right in the middle of the restoration. We live each day in a house that is terribly broken, where nothing works exactly as intended.

The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

God is not satisfied with the state of this house, and he calls us to share in his holy dissatisfaction.