Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “You see, he was able to resist because of the deep heart devotion he had to his Lord. His heart was not ruled by horizontal pleasure but by vertical worship....
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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...
Contentment in the Hardships of Ministry
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “It is only a heart that is satisfied in Christ that can be spiritually content in the hardships of ministry.” P 64. Let’s face it. Life is sometimes very...
Two Types of Comparisons
“It is only in your brokenness in the face of your sin that you can give grace to the fellow rebels to whom God has called you to minister. It’s only when your identity is firmly rooted in Christ that you are free from seeking to get your identity out of your...
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...
A Passion for People
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “It is your own daily experience of the rescue of the gospel that gives you a passion for people to experience the same rescue.”Paul Tripp. Page 64 There is so...
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...
Ministering Out of a “Christ-tenderized” Heart
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “A pastor’s ministry is never just shaped by his knowledge, experience, and skill. It is always also shaped by the true condition of his heart. In fact, if his...
More Than Knowledge and Skill
Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “I have heard the tale again and again. The summary is always the same: ‘We finally came to the realization that we had called (hired) someone we didn’t...