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Luke
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Pausing the reading, there are other books that seem more worth the time/effort.
Tripp’s writing lands flat for me in this book as he moves into various Comfort related to the gospel, unfortunately. There was a bright paragraph urging the reader to not let suffering become one’s identity as doing so limits both one’s potential and related actions (pg. 133).
— Jul 29, 2025 08:52AM
Tripp’s writing lands flat for me in this book as he moves into various Comfort related to the gospel, unfortunately. There was a bright paragraph urging the reader to not let suffering become one’s identity as doing so limits both one’s potential and related actions (pg. 133).
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Luke
is on page 132 of 224
A few more traps: Doubt, Denial and Discouragement.
Of the three Discouragement and its connection to complaint connected the most. Tripp states that discouragement readily yields to moral paralysis, not feeling our actions matter and therefore rationalizing spiritual inaction or worse callousness to sin (my interpretation).
— Jul 28, 2025 10:56AM
Of the three Discouragement and its connection to complaint connected the most. Tripp states that discouragement readily yields to moral paralysis, not feeling our actions matter and therefore rationalizing spiritual inaction or worse callousness to sin (my interpretation).
Luke
is on page 75 of 224
The chapter “The Fear Trap” rang hollow to me, and also repeated earlier work. The relevant part was on “meditation” of the heart, which I would restate as attention, and how that contributes much to one’s suffering. But even secular authors write well on that.
The chapter “The Envy Trap” is hitting more squarely. Envy into anger, bitterness, self-pity.
— Jul 27, 2025 09:34PM
The chapter “The Envy Trap” is hitting more squarely. Envy into anger, bitterness, self-pity.
Luke
is on page 31 of 224
We never suffer just the thing we’re suffering, we also suffer the way we’re suffering it. Our expectations, our defenses, histories, losses.
— Jul 26, 2025 05:28PM
