Marriage Conference
What Did You Expect: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
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Parenting Conferences
Getting to the Heart of Parenting
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Age of Opportunity
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Other Live Conferences for All Adults
Your Walk with God is a Community Project
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War of Words: Getting to the Heart of You Communication Struggles
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Lost in the Middle
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How to be Good and Angry
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Portrait of a Struggle: What to Think When to Resist
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Whose Kingdom Come, Whose Will Be Done: The War for the Heart & Your Life of Prayer
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Men's Conference
Husbands: Too Busy to Notice, To Distracted to Care?
When a man comes home at night he actually wants to be left alone and doesn't have a vision for the importance of how he responds to his wife and how he deals with his children. You can be part of the building of a very different culture in your home.
Men: What in the World are you Living For?
What is the dream that gets you up in the morning? What are you after at work, at home, and at play? What is it that you are afraid of losing or afraid of never getting? Everyone lives for something. Could it be that you’re not living for what you think you are living for and could it be that what you are living for will never satisfy you? What in the world are you living for?
Women's Conference
Women: So You Are Disappointed. Now What?
Your response to your relationships and your situations is shaped by deeply held expectations and powerfully felt disappointments. Why do you long for the things you long for? Why are you disappointed in the places you are disappointed? Learn how Jesus Christ can give you a more constant peace of heart and a more focused sense of purpose even as you are living in a fallen world.
Youth Conference
Your Walk with God is a Community Project
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Pastors' Conference
The Church: Too Many Unproductive People
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Dangerous Calling: The Unique Temptations of Ministry in the Local Church
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Church Leadership Conference
Church Leadership Development
In the frenzy of ministry and the tyranny of the urgent, it is very
easy to forget the primary function of pastors, elders, deacons, and
staff. It is also tempting to lose sight of the Gospel's central place
in the identity of a local church. This leadership conference is
designed to help you and your leaders catch a vision for what it looks
like to serve the flock as a pastor, elder, deacon or any staff member.
Along with that, you will see how important it is for the Gospel to be
at the center of a local church's corporate identity, what hindrances
often prevent the Gospel from being central, and what can be done to
make sure the Gospel becomes and remains at the center.
Children's & Family Ministry Leaders Conferences
His Story or Your Story? Who Reigns Supreme in Your Heart?
In case you hadn’t noticed the Bible you hold in your hands is not arranged by topic. God hasn’t given us an encyclopedia of religious thought. His written revelation to us is a narrative. The Bible is not a collection of stories, but one continuous story; the grand story of redemption. This story is meant to be the big story that helps us to understand the little story that makes up each of our lives. The goal of ministry is to embed the story of each individual into the larger story of redemption so that we understand what it looks like to live where God has placed us in a way that is consistent with the plot of his story. The problem is in some way all of us want to be authors of our own story. We want to write our own plot, so there is for all of us a living tension between the story God has written for us and the story we would write for ourselves. What does it look like, where the rubber meets the road in everyday life, to live with joy and commitment inside the plot of God’s story?
Getting to the Heart of Conflict
You have never had a relationship in your life that has not been marked in by anger somehow, someway. Conflict rears its ugly head in all the situations, locations, and relationships that make up our daily lives. It not just that we have difficulty living in peace with our adversaries, no, we have daily trouble living in peace with people we say we love and respect. Conflict is also a real and present issue in ministry. It regularly obstructs the work for his kingdom that God has called for us to do. Sadly, all of this is happening within the community of people who profess to be followers of the Prince of Peace. Why do we have such difficulty living alongside of one another in relationships of unity, understanding, and love? Why is anger such regular part of each of our lives? What is a biblical pathway to lasting peace? Getting to the heart of conflict means understanding what the Bible says about the heart and how it directs all we do and say. Learn what God has given you in his Son so that you can experience lasting heart change and the peace that results.
Christian School Conference
Your Christian School: A Culture of Grace?
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Home Education Conferences
It's Not Just Your Children Who are Struggling!
You can't be a humble and honest parent without dealing with some regret. Why do we all end up doing and saying things as parents that we never intended? What will keep me being part of what God is doing in the life of my children and not in the way of it? Learn where good parenting really starts.
It's Worth It, It Really Is!
There is a perspective in Scripture that is so radical and so life transforming that once you look at it, you will never view your parenting task the same way again. Come and hear how this one Biblical insight can infuse your parenting work with new enthusiasm, and hope.
Counseling Conferences
Imagination
Biblical counseling is not just about providing explanation for people, it is also about stimulating the imagination. For Christians whose entire hope is in an invisible God, imagination is indispensable.
Biblical Counseling and Identity
Human beings are always living out of some sense of identity. Learn about the dynamic of identity amnesia and identity replacement.
Biblical Counseling and the Use of Scripture
We are all revelation receivers. In this seminar you will learn what the Bible is and what it is not. You’ll look into the reasons for spiritual blindness, spiritual claustrophobia, and hermeneutic disorientation. You’ll see that the two most important skills for counseling others is connection and imagination.
Counseling and the Bible as Story
Counseling sadly is one of the places where scripture is often used poorly. Because counseling tends to be topical, our tendency is to use the Bible topically, as well, and end up missing the genius of how the Word transforms the heart.
Midlife and the Grace of God
There are three things that everyone faces: aging, death of your dreams, and regret. These can be the occasion for losing your way or for a deeper a fuller experience of the grace of God. Learn how to counsel people through this time.
International Conferences
“Paul Tripp was without doubt one of the most impactful guest speakers we have had at St Matthews. The Holy Spirit powerfully used Paul’s faithfulness to Scripture, brilliant use of words and an ability to apply the Scriptures to real lives to cause a lot of reflection and real change amongst our people. And as we wrestled with what Paul said about love and relationships in our Home Groups on the Wednesday following the Sunday message we continued to sense God working amongst us as a result of Paul’s ministry. In the Home Group I lead one woman made a potentially life-changing decision as a result of God’s conviction on her life. As a pastor I obviously rejoice in this and would urge the Alpha and Omega trust to bring our brother Paul back out to South Africa. We would be willing to help in whatever way we are able.”
- Mike Emslie, Pastor of St Matthews Church of England, Table View
“Paul Tripp preached at St Stephens church on the causes of conflict. It was a timely word in a world that is full of conflict. What was terrific to hear was Paul taking us to the Bible to hear that conflict often arises as a result of our idolatrous desires. The gospel shines so clearly and becomes a real, relevant and practical solution when our sin is exposed for what it is. One couldn’t help coming away thinking what a great saviour we have.”
- Geoff Gertzen, Pastor of St Stephen’s Church of England, Claremont
“Paul Tripp made a great impact at both City Partnership meetings and we would be extremely keen to have him back. In particular his understanding of human relationships was especially helpful. In a culture that seeks a quick fix to all of life's problems, Paul's emphasis on bringing our own sinful reactions before the Lord and seeing suffering as the path to Christian maturity were passionately and convincingly communicated. Many people commented that his humility and willingness to share his own past failures gave his messages a special authority.”
- Simon Clegg, leader of City Partnership Ministry
“Having had Dr Paul Tripp recently with us at the African Enterprise Leadership Training Centre, I want to set on record what an extraordinary impact this grand brother had on all who heard him here. His teaching on marriage, family life and a Christian home was amongst the deepest and best I have heard anywhere. In fact, it is my hope to share about Paul's material with some 2500 South African Christian leaders who are part of our recently launched National Initiative for the Reformation of South Africa (NIRSA). Paul's bull’s-eye and on-the-button teaching related to this crucial area of life deserves to be as widely circulated as possible and we at AELTC want to do our bit in making this happen. In fact, we would love to see him back in South Africa on an annual basis."
- Michael Cassidy, Africa Enterprise, Pietermaritzburg
“It was a great privilege to have Paul Tripp teach in our church. He is a dynamic speaker who clearly and faithfully communicates the life-changing truths of Scripture for everyday life. I particularly appreciated his focus on how our hearts are the wellspring of life, and are in constant need of God's grace. We would love to have him back in South Africa sometime, as he has much to teach the church.”
- Hilmar von Fintel, Pastor of Monte Vista Presbyterian Church, Monte Vista
“What a joy it has been to have Paul Tripp here in Cape Town. His incisive understanding of Scripture coupled with his remarkable ability to communicate it's truth made for edifying meetings. No-one left disappointed! In a day and age where the Bible is set aside for psychology and pragmatism, we need men like Paul Tripp! He is undoubtedly God's gift to the wider church exercising a unique ministry in humility and all to the glory of God. We trust that we will see him back in South Africa soon.”
- Roland Eskinazi, Pastor of Goodwood Baptist Church, Goodwood