Character

Biblical Maturity is Never Just About What You Know

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People     “Biblical maturity is never just about what you know; it’s always about how grace has employed what you have come to know to transform the way you...

Reclaiming Holiness: Part 3

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People Well we are at the end of our journey as we have been discussing maturity in Christ or holiness.  Last we looked at three areas that describe holiness and...

Reclaiming Holiness: Part 2

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People In the previous post I introduced the subject of holiness and contended that Dr. Paul Tripp’s central theme of his book Dangerous Calling was a call to living a...

Reclaiming Holiness: Part 1

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Maturity is a vertical thing that will have a wide variety of horizontal expressions.  Maturity is about relationship to God that results in wise and humble...

The Definition of Christian Maturity

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “The ultimate purpose of the Word of God is not theological information but heart and life transformation.” (p. 51) We often confuse knowledge with obedience. ...

Knowing Christ

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Maturity is not merely something you do with your mind (although that is an important element of spiritual maturity). It is about how you live your life. It is...

That’s so Funny it Hurts!?

  Thomas Carlyle despised it: "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it".[12] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on the other hand, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was "usually...