What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

By Paul David Tripp

Book Overview

A longtime Christian teacher and counselor calls engaged and married couples to a grace-based lifestyle of daily reconciliation, marked by six practical commitments. Marriage, according to Scripture, will always involve two flawed people living with each other in a fallen world. Yet, in counselor Paul Tripp's professional experience, the majority of couples enter marriage with unrealistic expectations, leaving them unprepared for the day-to-day realities of married life. This unique book introduces a biblical and practical approach to those realities that is rooted in God's faithfulness and Scripture's teaching on sin and grace. Spouses need to be reconciled to each other and to God on a daily basis, Tripp declares. Since we're always sinners married to sinners, reconciliation isn't just the right response in moments of failure. It must be the lifestyle of any healthy marriage. What Did You Expect? presents six practical commitments that give shape and momentum to such a lifestyle. These commitments, which include honestly facing sin, weakness, and failure; willingness to change; and embodying Christ's love, will equip couples to develop a thriving, grace-based marriage in all circumstances and seasons of their relationship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433511762
• ISBN13: 9781433511769
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Crossway
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Very good condition,fast shipping to Canada

I designed the cover of the Chinese version of this book. Before designing the cover, according to my habit, I must read the whole book. I have to say that Paul is very gifted in biblical counseling, because I have read it and benefited from it, so I was going to buy a copy of the English version to give to a brother who is getting married here. It's a book every couple should read before marriage.

Marriage. Practically.

The best book on marriage period. No matter how long you've been married. Newlyweds to engaged and everyone in between. Read this book ! Pratical. Helpful. Applicable. Tripp writes in a manner that is easy to understand AND apply.

Great question!

Excellent book on marriage relationship. Easy read, but tough questions to ponder. Great book for all the married and want to get married people.