What does Dangerous Calling (Paul David Tripp, Crossway, 2012) promise? Subtitled Confronting The Unique Challenges Of Pastoral Ministry, Dangerous Calling was written to help pastors “take an honest look at yourself in the heart-and-life exposing mirror of the Word of God – to see things that are wrong and need correcting and to help you …
Monday is a good day for a pastor to remember they’re not the Messiah. Our privileged task is to tell others about Jesus who is the Messiah, and any time we start thinking it all depends on us it’ll end badly. Monday is a good day to remember that otherwise you’d feel bad about yourself …
Addressing pastors, Paul Tripp puts the choice which every pastor has to make before us. It is the choice we commend to others. It is the choice which Jesus made. It is the choice we have to make and keep making. There may be only two roads for your heart to travel in ministry: the …
A constant temptation in pastoral life is to strip-mine the Scriptures in search of that which the pastor thinks will bring needed challenge and change to their congregation while never digging into the Word consciously aware of the need for it to confront and transform the pastor himself. A worrying sign is when the consistent …
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