Book Tite: Do You Believe? 12 Historic Doctrines to Change Your Everyday Life

Author: Paul David Tripp

Publisher: Crossway Publishers

Overview

Paul David Tripp has done it again. Tripp has a way of writing and making even difficult or deep truths easy to take in by his readers. In Do You Believe?, Tripp has brought together some timeless truths from Scripture and presented them in a way that any reader today could understand.

This book begins with a nice foreword by David Platt. It is then broken up into two chapters devoted to each doctrine that is presented. The first chapter is supposed to be an explanation of the doctrine. The second chapter is intended to show how the doctrine could be applied to daily life by the reader.

The book ends with two indexes: a general index and a Scripture index.

My Thoughts

I am a big fan of Paul David Tripp’s writing. He has a way of coming across in a casual manner with some of the deepest topics of the Chrisitan faith. I am grateful for this book because it deals with some of the most important topics that a person can come across: the doctrines of the Christian faith.

We live in a time where just about anyone can put out information for the world to see. It is hard to find concrete answers about topics amid the many opinions that swirl around today. In this book, Tripp has taken on the task of sharing about twelve of what he feels are the most important doctrines of the Christian faith. He does a pretty good job of sharing a working definition of each doctrine. He also seeks to take a chapter to share how this doctrine could be applied to one’s life in today’s world.

The only downside that I really had with this book was in the two-chapter dealing with each doctrine. I am not against doing it that way. The issue that I had was that the definition usually did not take a full chapter to present. Tripp’s way of writing many times comes across as being application-heavy (which I believe is a really good thing). I think that this book could have easily had one chapter for each doctrine that contained both of the elements they were going for.

The content of this book is solid and trustworthy. As I stated earlier, the only thing that I didn’t really like about this book was some of the layouts. The content is something that I would use without hesitation.

My Recommendation

I would suggest that anyone that would like to know more about the Christian faith get a copy of this book and a copy of the Bible (in a translation that they can understand). This book will do a good job of pointing out doctrines, showing where they can be found in the Bible, and an easy-to-understand definition of each.