[4 min read—client resource] A recent friend of mine went for a run in the desert. She was telling us about her experience and she said, “everywhere I looked all I saw was sand. I didn’t even know what direction to go in. Thankfully, I was with someone who did.” Her...
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Life is Beautiful, Life is Hard: A Small-Scale Approach to Philippians 4:8
[6 min read—client resource] There’s a mural in Durham, North Carolina that I always loved seeing when I lived there. The mural is painted on the side of an old tobacco warehouse. It’s brightly painted with flowers and says, “Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.” I...
Believe It or Not: Finding Freedom from Anxiety, False Guilt, and Faulty Expectations Based on Who God Is and How He Made Us (Part 3)
[5 min read—client resource] STOP! Have you read Parts 1 and 2? I know, I know…It’s tempting to skip ahead to the application portion. But meditating on who God is and who we are as human beings in relation to him is foundational; we must settle in our own hearts if...
Believe It or Not: Finding Freedom from Anxiety, False Guilt, and Faulty Expectations Based on Who God Is and How He Made Us (Part 2)
[7 min read—client resource] In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how what we believe about the character of God shapes our experiences of and responses to whatever we may be struggling with or suffering from. Let’s now look at his good design for us as human...
Lost My Place
“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” ~ Simone Weil In the last two centuries, globalization has exploded. Communication, collaboration and relocation are accessible in unimaginable ways. Opportunities to connect with others are endless. Ways to work together...
Doing versus Being
“The Spirit of the Father and the Son would never be interested in merely empowering us to “do good.” His desire (which is the desire of the Father and the Son) is to bring us to such a hearty enjoyment of God through Christ that we delight to know him, that we...
The Lost Art of Solitude
“Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.” ~Henri Nouwen “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” ~Augustine I’ve become increasingly aware of a pervasive...
Context Clues for Remembering the War
Perhaps we have forgotten that pastoral ministry is war and that you will never live successfully in the pastorate if you live with a peacetime mentality. (Paul David Tripp in Dangerous Calling, p. 98). Forgetting where you are at can make life awkward, difficult, and...
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...