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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
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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. It is unrelenting, and it is unfair because Satan never plays fair. And the reason why it is so intense is that your greatest asset is your mind.
I have seen the face of mental illness. I have seen what it is like when people are unable to hear God because their minds are broken and cannot seem to connect to God even when they want to connect to God. And I know whatever gets your mind gets you. So one of the most important things we need to learn and teach others is how to guard, strengthen,...
Now look at the very last phrase in the passage: take every thought captive to obey Christ. Take captive every thought. The Greek word aichmaløtizø there means to control, to conquer, to bring into submission. We take captive. We make it submit. Every thought obedient to Christ. Make it obedient. Hupakøe means to bring into submission, to bring und...
I have been studying this subject for thirty-three years. I did my first study on the mind in 1977, working through all the books of the Bible. I think I could teach on this subject for an entire week. There is so much material on what the Bible has to say about strengthening our minds, renewing our minds, submitting our minds, and bringing our tho...
The Bible says Wise men store up knowledge (Proverbs 10:14 NIV). And heres Proverbs 19:8: Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good. We must make time to think. Plan it in your life. Strategize for a balance between doing and thinking. We need both of them in our lives.
Jul 12, 2023 · The Bible puts great emphasis on the mind and how it affects your life. If you have any desire to be the man or woman God desires you to be, then you must understand how important a role your mind is going to play in that.
Mind’s Role in Spiritual Transformation The mind is the soul’s primary vehicle for making contact with God. God desires a life of intellectual growth and study for His children. Terminology Soul = immaterial, invisible thing that makes you a conscious, living being total person (Gen 2:7, Psa 63:1) immaterial self (Mat 10:28, John 2:25)
Feb 4, 2022 · In this book, Piper aims to show his readers how thinking is a means of joyfully glorifying God. He builds his case from two biblical passages. They are 2 Timothy 2:7 and Proverbs 2:1-6. Piper argues that both call on Christians to use their minds to seek and receive understanding.
Mar 6, 2013 · The mind is central to the whole Christian life – prayer, singing, speaking – and critical to our maturation in Christ. It determines what we think about God and whether we obey Him. Our thinking should therefore be distinctive from non-Christians who have their mind blinded and do not understand spiritual ideas.
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CULTIVATING THE MIND OF CHRIST. BACKGROUND INFO. On The Book Of Philippians. (Jensen’s Survey of the New Testament) SCRIPTURE: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” Philippians 2:5. The book of Philippians is the last of the four prison epistles written by Paul around A.D. 61-62.
