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Discipline of Contentment
I really wanted to put this chapter off for a little bit longer. At least until I thought I had something profound and insightful to say about how I have overcome the sinful attitude of discontentment. Let me assure you I have not. However, I am pressing ahead with this book, and the chapter this…
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Bible Saturated
You can never have a Christian mind without regular reading of the Scriptures and serious Bible study. Why is this? Because you cannot be profoundly influenced by what you don’t know. If you are filled with God’s Word, your life can then be informed and directed by God–your relationships at home, your parenting, your career,…
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More on the Mind
Why should we bother with Christian reading apart from Scripture? All the Christians who have come before us are offering a wealth of accumulated knowledge and wisdom. To feed on their ideas and experiences is to reject spiritual anorexia. (Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman, p. 74) I read a lot. I keep two items…
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Loving the LORD With All My Mind
I read this quote in A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith the other day: God is not simply a great sight, the object of speculative curiosity. The revelation of His glory and the whole theological process which legitimately follows from it is holy ground. We cannot stand as superiors over God or His…
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Discipline of the Mind
No computer will ever be able to think God’s thought or know the heart of God or do His works. But the human brain–that mystery residing between our ears–has this capacity. Actually, it’s what the brain was created for–to have the mind of Christ. (Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Woman, p.67) In this chapter, Hughes…
Leslie Wiggins 