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Oct 3, 2010 · The main positive aim is that you will embrace serious thinking as a way of loving God and people — that through the awakening and sharpening of your thinking, you will love God and love people more deeply and more fully and more unshakably. We will turn to that aim in a few minutes.
- Life of The Mind
In this message, Rick Warren discusses the necessity of...
- Life of The Mind
- Human Thinking and Divine Illumination
- The Mind Is Indispensable For The Christian Life
- The Christian Loves God with Her Mind
- Thinking That Leads to Worship
- Humble Thinking
- All Scholarship Is For The Love of God and Man
- Piper Models What He Exhorts
Paul writes: “Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything” (2 Timothy 2:7). Many people would go off course with this verse, veering towards one of two extremes. The one extreme highlights, “Think over what I say.” It overemphasises the crucial role of thinking, often at the expense of the illuminating work of Godi...
The Bible is where we find the clearest and most authoritative knowledge of God. And since the Bible is a book, it requires thinking. This is because reading involves thinking. Since we are called to carefully read and apply God’s word to our lives, we cannot deem thinking is valueless. “There is no reading without thinking. And there is no reading...
Not only is thinking necessary to the understanding and application of God’s word to our lives, God commands the Christian to love him with all of their mind (Matthew 22:37). And this cannot be divorced from faithful thinking. “To love God with the mind is to love him in the way we use our mind to think” (p84). To love God with our minds is to full...
But there are some who still believe that thinking has no value for the Christian life. They argue that the life of the mind has done more harm than good to the church. They point to those who think much but feel little, men and women who are merely clever and almost never practical. Christian history is full of barren intellectuals, rich minds wit...
Piper is not shy to point out a common danger present in all intellectual exertions: pride. A great Christian mind can easily lack humility. Pride is a real danger when we engage in serious intellectual effort, but that doesn’t mean that thinking is the problem; pride is. Piper advocates for humble thinking, and offers two remedies for pride, based...
Piper believes that God has two books: the Bible and the world. And he implores us to see that the truth of 1 Corinthians 8:1-3 is not only to be applied to our knowledge of God through his word, but also to “the knowledge of God through his other ‘book’—the world of nature and human life” (p166). This means that “all thinking—all learning, all edu...
Perhaps the greatest strength of this book is that it doesn’t deal with the subject dryly. John Piper, a serious thinker himself, writes with the touch of a pastor who has dealt with people and has had to explain complex ideas simply. His gift of exposition will be much appreciated in the book, especially in his dealing with often misunderstood bib...
Oct 1, 2010 · Rick Warren. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3–5 Topic: Life of the Mind. A violent battle is raging around us twenty-four hours per day. In 1965, Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote a book about it called The Invisible War. It is the battle for your mind, and that battle is vicious. It is intense.
Sep 20, 2017 · The mind of the the believer plays a far more central role than we often realise. ‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he’, the scriptures say. We realise more and more that the battle in the Christian life really is a battle for the mind to be renewed and controlled by God’s truth.
Jun 23, 2009 · We continue our ESN Book Club discussion of John Stott’s Your Mind Matters with chapter 3, “The Mind in Christian Life.” Stott “examines six spheres of Christian living, each of which is impossible without the proper use of the mind,” namely: Christian worship; Christian faith; Christian holiness; Christian guidance; Christian evangelism
Jan 1, 2001 · Our minds play a vital role in Christian faith. Opinions, indeed, are stronger than armies. Knowledge, wisdom, discernment and understanding are foundational to Christian living in worship, faith, holiness and in our service and love to the other.
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Jan 4, 2022 · Spiritual growth is identified by the fruit of the Spirit becoming increasingly evident in a believer’s life. When the transformation of salvation takes place, spiritual growth begins. The Holy Spirit indwells us (John 14:16-17).
