The Connecting Podcast with Paul Tripp

You can’t celebrate God’s forgiveness on Sunday while refusing to make peace with others the rest of the week.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore how genuine worship must be reflected in our relationships through humility, love, and a commitment to reconciliation.

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What if one of the sins we’re most willing to excuse is one God takes far more seriously than we realize?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby examine how anger grows from the selfish desires of our hearts and remind us of our desperate need for God’s inexhaustible grace to overcome it.

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What if true righteousness isn’t about looking good on the outside, but surrendering your heart to God?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby expose the dangers of pride and show how God’s grace empowers us to live in joyful obedience.

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What if the freedom of the gospel doesn’t mean freedom from God’s law, but freedom from the burden of having to fulfill it ourselves?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore how Christ fulfilled the law on our behalf, lifted its condemning burden, and empowered us by grace to live according to its righteous requirements.

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You’ve been lit, so don’t hide the light.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby unpack Jesus’ call for believers to be the light of the world, exploring what it means to let our good works point others to God.

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What if God didn’t call you to escape the brokenness of the world, but to step into it and make a difference?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby unpack Jesus’ call for believers to be “the salt of the earth,” exploring how Christians can resist being corrupted by the world while actively bringing the preserving influence of the gospel into their families, workplaces, and communities.

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God doesn’t simply command us to obey; He gives us promises so compelling that obedience becomes a joyful response to His grace.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the promises woven throughout the Beatitudes and how trusting God’s lavish promises gives us the motivation to follow Jesus, even when obedience requires sacrifice.

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What if the hardest moments of your life are actually secure in the hands of a God who has already secured your eternity?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the promise of heavenly reward, showing how confidence in our eternal destiny gives us peace, patience, and hope in the midst of present hardship.

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The greatest danger to your spiritual life may not be what’s happening around you, but what’s happening within you.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore the biblical call to purity of heart, exposing our inability to cleanse ourselves and pointing us to the transforming grace of Jesus.

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Peace doesn’t begin with getting everyone around you to agree. It begins with getting your own heart right before God.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby unpack Jesus’ call to be peacemakers, exposing the envy, anger, and selfishness that stand in the way of genuine peace.

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What if the most important kind of cleanliness has nothing to do with what’s on the outside, but everything to do with what’s happening in your heart?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore Jesus’ words, “Blessed are the pure in heart,” examining why we can’t cleanse our own hearts and why our only hope for true purity is the cleansing grace of Jesus.

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In a world obsessed with judgment, Jesus calls his people to something radically different: mercy.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explore what it means to be merciful in a culture quick to judge and cancel, reminding us that mercy doesn’t compromise on sin but seeks forgiveness, rescue, and restoration.

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You'll never find lasting satisfaction if you're feeding your soul with the wrong things.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby explain that every person is driven by deep spiritual hunger, and true joy is found only when we hunger and thirst for God's righteousness instead of the empty promises of this world.

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The biggest obstacle to following Jesus may be the person you see in the mirror.

This week, Paul and Shelby explore Jesus' call to meekness, explaining why true joy begins when we stop putting ourselves at the center and learn to live for God's glory instead of our own.

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What if sadness isn't something to avoid, but a mark of God's grace at work in your life?

This week, Paul and Shelby continue their study of the Beatitudes by exploring why Jesus calls those who mourn "blessed," and how a broken heart over the world's suffering and our own sin leads to the comfort and hope found only in Christ.

The path to true blessing begins where our pride ends.

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby discuss what it means to be "poor in spirit" and why recognizing our spiritual need is the doorway to God's grace and lasting joy.

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What if the biggest problem in your life isn't your circumstances, but your character?

This week on The Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby discuss why Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes, and how lasting transformation comes not from escaping hardship, but from a heart that is being changed by God's grace.

Today marks the beginning of a brand-new season of The Connecting Podcast. We've refreshed the format to bring you shorter, weekly conversations between Paul and Shelby Abbott. Each Friday, you'll hear a new 20-minute episode designed to help you connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

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To kick off this new season, Paul and Shelby will spend the coming weeks exploring The Sermon on the Mount and what it means to live faithfully as a Christian in a world gone crazy. Our prayer is that these conversations will encourage, equip, convict, and comfort you as Paul connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today’s episode, Paul and Shelby Abbott continue their conversation on The Blessings and Danger of Anger — Part Two. If you missed Part One, you can find it in Episode 50 of The Connecting Podcast.

This will be the final episode of this version of The Connecting Podcast for a little while—but don’t worry. We’ll be back in a few months with a new format and more conversations to come. In the meantime, we encourage you to explore the archives and catch up on any of the previous 50 episodes you may have missed, featuring Paul with special guests or with Shelby discussing topics like grace, faith, and evangelism.

Visit https://PaulTripp.com/Connecting to listen to all 50 episodes of The Connecting Podcast.

When was the last time you got angry? Why did you get angry? Who were you angry with? What was the fruit of that anger?

We experience anger every day, but not all anger is wrong—and not all anger should be resisted. In this Connecting Podcast, Paul and Shelby Abbott begin an extended conversation on the blessings and dangers of anger.

Anger, while not listed as a fruit of the Spirit, can be a righteous, God-honoring response. Our God is filled with holy anger, and as his image-bearers, we are called to reflect his character.

That means we have the capacity for godly anger, and there are real blessings that can come with it. But sin has corrupted our hearts, giving us an equally real capacity to twist something good into something destructive. What begins as righteous anger can quickly become selfish and harmful.

The Bible is shockingly honest about anger, and Paul and Shelby are here to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to our everyday lives as they explore both the blessings and the dangers of anger.