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- “To love God with the mind is to love him in the way we use our mind to think” (p84). Just as fire needs fuel for its survival, love for God needs the fuel of thinking. To love God with our minds is to fully engage our thinking, “to know God as fully as possible in order to treasure him for all he’s worth” (p90).
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Jul 26, 2024 · We can trust in God’s Love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 gives several descriptions of love: " Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
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- 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...
Jan 2, 2020 · Read about the Bible's vision that an entire human person can be directed in love toward God. Learn how you can engage God with your whole heart and mind.
The Bible says that the love of Christ makes us “complete” and gives us a full life along with the power that comes from God. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.
Apr 1, 2017 · The Bible teaches us that we are to direct our thinking toward those things that honor God and are good for us. Part of the reason for this, is that our thinking takes us somewhere. When we direct and align our thinking with the Bible and wisdom, we find life and peace.
Jan 13, 2021 · It matters to God what we think, and matters to us that we know he knows but saved us while we continued to sin, thereby showing his love for us. We gratefully recognize that God knows the secret sins of our hearts, but he loves us anyway.
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Jun 19, 2024 · John 3:16 declares, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”. This verse encapsulates the essence of God’s sacrificial love—a love that is willing to give everything for our salvation.
