Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “This is where it inevitably leads. You’ve lost sight of the gospel in your personal life; you feel a growing disconnect between your private life and your...
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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 members of the...
Don’t Just Listen
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Although my friend wasn’t overtly dismissive, he didn’t really listen. . . He was a very approachable guy who was at the same time very skilled at failing to...
Remind Yourself
“If you are in ministry and you are not reminding yourself again and again of the now-ism of the gospel, that is, the right-here, right-now benefits of the grace of Christ, you will be looking elsewhere to get what can be found only in Jesus” (Paul David Tripp in...
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...
Thin But Not Healthy
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “It is my worship that enables me to lead others to worship. It is my sense of need that leads me to tenderly pastor those in need of grace.” p. 34-35. As...
Devotion
“What gives a ministry its motivations, perseverance, humility, joy, tenderness, passion, and grace is the devotional life of the one doing ministry.” (Paul David Tripp in Dangerous Calling, page 35) Reading this quote, you may want to resound a hearty, “AMEN,”...
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...
Signs Around Us
Signs—they are all around us as indicators of something. Octagonal red stop signs are indicators to stop. Yield signs are indicators to be ready to stop if another driving is coming. Bridges have signs as reminders to slow down because they may ice in cold weather....