Bridgehaven Team

The Danger Of Living In Isolation

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “Be sure that your pastor and his family are regularly invited to the homes of families in your church.” p. 81 It’s easy for pastors to forego...

To Loved Ones Around Those in Ministry

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “There are changes needed in the shape of pastoral culture. How can we realistically expect anyone in the middle of the sanctification process to live...

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...

Get Some Rest

  Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “Yet being the man he thought he needed to be, working to be more publicly righteous than he actually was, was exhausting and burdensome.” Page 77...

Good News

  Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “Joe worried about how the knowledge of his struggles would harm people's hope in the power of the gospel. He didn't want people to question the...

The Artificial Stability of Self-Reliance in Ministry

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “It also means that they will struggle to be patient with people who are messing up or have lost their way. Self-righteous people tend not to be...

Are You A Self-Swindler?

"When my conscience is activated and bothered, I am faced with making one of two choices. The first and best choice is to admit that what I have done is wrong and place myself once again under the justifying mercies of Christ, receiving his forgiveness. Or I can erect...

Inoculated by Unbelief

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People   “Unbelieving” captures what we do to cover our sin and defend our righteousness. Rather than a simple faith and rest in the accurate diagnosis of the Word...