Bridgehaven Team

Effective Counseling is Interactive

What do I look for in a biblical counselor? What should I expect during the first session?  What questions should I ask the counselor? Where do I go to find biblical counselors in my area? The following post includes a few simple guidelines to briefly address the...

Parenting in the Digital Age

"Covenantal Parenting, Creational View of Technology, & Transformational Approach" As we take a look today at some of the technology and social media used by our children, and consider how to shepherd them…it is important for us to examine the different components...

The Many Meanings of “I Don’t Know.”

Television programs at times have interruptions due to important events, noting, “We now interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring this important announcement.” This blog will be an interruption of the “regularly scheduled” one on Dangerous Calling to...

How To Find A Counselor For Your Child

So, here is the post that should have been out last month, but now I am on an official schedule that will not have me posting every month! Yeah!  No, really it is good and challenging to do things that we don't want to do. As I give some direction for how to choose a...

The Race that is Set Before Us

You could argue that the biblical story is about three locations. The garden in Genesis was a location of perfection and beauty but became a place of sin and trouble. The hill of Calvary was a place of both horrible suffering and transforming grace. And the New...

Location, location, location!

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     Pastor, make sure you are being pastored the entire time you are pastoring others. Seek out a mature and reliable person with whom you can share...

The Enemy Within

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “There is something dark and deceitful that still lurks in the heart of every one of God’s children who has not yet been fully gloried: sin”  (pg. 108) I...

Pursuing Holiness in Community

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     Pastor, make sure you are being pastored the entire time you are pastoring others. Seek out a mature and reliable person with whom you can share...