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He then reviews relevant Bible verses and passages that apply. He begins most chapters with a parenting dilemma where there is opportunity to apply each principle. He summarizes each principle in one or two sentences. Tripp devotes each of his 14 chapters to a specific gospel principle. But like Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson, Tripp’s book will encourage you to apply the Christian gospel to parenting. Having finished the book, I don’t feel this book is a must–purchase. Since I have enjoyed many of his other books, I decided to read this latest offering. Recently, Paul Tripp added his second contribution to this genre, entitled Parenting. On Amazon, you can find dozens of parenting books published within the last 10 years. As you read (or re-read) this chapter, let’s pray together for God’s grace to patiently engage our children on this level, and to regularly point them back to the One who “died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised” (2 Cor 5:15).Paul Tripp organizes 14 principles of the gospel for Christian parents to apply that can radically change their family. Helping our children understand this, Tripp explains, is doing gospel work. The ultimate source of all authority is God, and he exercises his authority in the lives of children primarily through their parents and teachers. The fact is, our children are born into a world of authority. “There is a natural resistance to authority in every child who has been born since the fall of Adam and Eve,” Tripp writes, and this resistance to authority, more than anything else, is the thing that, apart from God’s grace, separates us and our children from God. Not surprisingly, our children are born into this same struggle. We like to believe we can control our own lives-that we should be the ultimate authority over what we do and how we live. When was the last time you wished you could just do what you want, regardless of what those around you want? Was it sometime in the last hour? In the last 5 minutes? As Paul Tripp notes in chapter 8, “Authority,” we humans have a strong attraction to self-rule. Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family by Paul Tripp