Neale Davis

The Necessary Art of “Being”

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Bad things can happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they...

Closed Eyes and Ears

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “Once you have closed your eyes to the evidence and quit listening to the voices of others, you are left to the blindness and self-righteousness of your...

The Perils of Isolation

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   "First, when people are your substitute messiah (you need their respect and support in order to continue), it's hard to be honest with them about your...

When a Gift Becomes a Liability

  Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “He was a very approachable guy who was at the same time very skilled at failing to heed the warnings that God was giving him through faithful...

When We Lost Our Heart

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People  In speaking of a pastor whose ministry lacks devotion Paul Tripp says, “His self-satisfaction means his words and actions in ministry did not grow in the soil...

The Freedom of the Truth

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People "Because sin blinds, God has set up the body of Christ to function as an instrument of seeing in our lives, so that we can know ourselves with a depth and...

Listening Under the Hood

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People  "No one is more influential in your life than you are, because no one talks to you more than you do." P. 33. When I was in college my parents bought me a car to...

Signs of Losing Our Way

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “How is the gospel of Jesus Christ forming and transforming the heart of this pastor and his local ministry culture?” (Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling, page...

Success is Great

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Without knowing that I was doing it, I took God’s faithfulness to me, to his people, to the work of his kingdom, to his plan of redemption, and to his church as...