Relationships, Timothy S. Lane
Relationships, Timothy S. Lane
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Relationships
A Mess Worth Making

Author: Timothy S. Lane, Paul David Tripp

Narrator: Richard Merton

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/17/2021


Synopsis

Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships.

Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant. Your spouse can't stop complaining about your bad habits. Your son refuses to talk to you. What are you supposed to do? Plans A, B, and C might be to shut down, lash out, or get out. But consider Plan D: Recognize that God has the last word on those messy, conflict-ridden relationships. He can use them to make you into a Christian who can give and receive love with God and others. Impossible? Idealistic? Not really.

In Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, Tim and Paul discuss the relational disappointments that we all suffer both in and out of the church. But they are also optimistic about the power of Christian beliefs to redeem and restore our relationships. Rather than presenting new or sophisticated techniques to make relationships flourish, the authors instead focus on the basic, Christian character qualities that can only be formed in the heart by the gospel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

This book was incredibly challenging and incredibly comforting at the same time. It is so easy for me to view my relationships with other people in terms of what I can get out of them. Or, we can fall into thinking of relationships as God's gift to make us happy. Rather, the authors point out that Go......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

I would never have read this book if it hadn't been chosen for a women's group I'm in at church. Sadly, this means that I lost several dozen brain cells that committed suicide rather than try to sort through all of this nonsense. Before I go into this, I want to make it clear that I don't know who sel......more

Goodreads review by Allison

This was such a great book! Down-to-earth advice on what happens in any kind of relationship - If I have the right attitude, it will always be worth it. Introverts and extroverts alike can learn how to contribute rightly to relationships and also how to deal with the issues that can come up. Very re......more

Goodreads review by Cassie

"You find your life by dying to yourself and caring for others in risky ways." Wow. This book has quickly become one of my top ten books every Christian should read. There is alot of talk in our culture today about setting boundaries with people, cutting out "toxic" relationships, and doing whatever......more