Neale Davis

A Level Playing Field

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “If every pastor is, in fact, a man in the middle of his own sanctification, shouldn’t he be receiving the normal range of the ministry of the body...

Listen to the Sounds Under the Hood

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “Joe (a pastor) was convinced of something that I (Tripp) have heard many pastors say to me as well: he was convinced that everyone else in the...

Authentic Community

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Is it biblical to tell pastors that they won’t be able to be friends with anyone, that they must live in an isolation that we would say is unhealthy for anyone...

A Deep Heart Devotion

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “You see, he was able to resist because of the deep heart devotion he had to his Lord.  His heart was not ruled by horizontal pleasure but by vertical worship....

Contentment in the Hardships of Ministry

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “It is only a heart that is satisfied in Christ that can be spiritually content in the hardships of ministry.”  P 64.   Let’s face it.  Life is...

A Passion for People

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “It is your own daily experience of the rescue of the gospel that gives you a passion for people to experience the same rescue.”Paul Tripp. Page 64 There...

More Than Knowledge and Skill

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “I have heard the tale again and again.  The summary is always the same: ‘We finally came to the realization that we had called (hired) someone we...

When People Become Projects

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “All right, Professor Tripp, we know that we will have these projects in our churches.  Tell us what to do with them so we can get back to the work...

Labyrinth or Liberty?

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People    “I wanted them to grapple with the question of whether they were in seminary because they loved the labyrinthine superstructure of the theological concepts of...