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...
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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...
The Heart that Matters Most
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “You see, it is only love for Christ that can defend the heart of the pastor against all the other loves that have the potential to kidnap his...
The Community Pastors Need
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “Doesn’t every member of the body of Christ need the ministry of the body of Christ, including the pastor?” (p. 79). This is not a trick question, but it is...
Heart Transformation
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “When the word of God, faithfully taught by the people of God and empowered by the Spirit of God, falls down, people become different. Lusting people become...
Right Heart and Right Handling
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “You see, it is quite possible and, sadly, quite regular for us to use the Bible unbiblically. Even given its God-driven purposefulness, you can...
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...