Good to Great in God's Eyes - Read Great Books, Part 1
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
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Summary
It’s true - you are what you eat. Both in your body and your mind. What you feed your mind and soul will determine your spiritual health. If you want to experience a fresh spiritual vitality and begin to see lasting life change, join Chip for the first of six advantages of reading great books.
Main Points Introduction: It all began in Hong Kong, the winter of 1978.- He put it in my hand.
- God put it in my heart.
- I put it in my briefcase for over 25 years.
The Book: The Knowledge of the Holy. --A.W. Tozer
Practice: Read Great Books! --Romans 12:2
Read Great Books that…- Broaden your world.
- Sharpen your mind.
- Inflame your heart.
- Develop your skills.
- Heal your soul.
- First and foremost, read the Bible.
- Great Christians are people of “the Word.”
- Great Christians read great books.”
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Need wisdom for a big decision. |
| 0:03.0 | Well, I've got good news for you. |
| 0:05.2 | There's a way you can develop insight for life's most important issues, and at the same |
| 0:09.8 | time deepen your faith like never before. |
| 0:12.5 | Want to know how? |
| 0:13.5 | Stay with me. |
| 0:18.2 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship-driven |
| 0:23.2 | ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. Thanks for |
| 0:28.7 | joining us as we continue our series Good to Great in God's eyes. As Chip highlights the next |
| 0:33.9 | practice great Christians have in common read great books. |
| 0:38.3 | Join us as he explains why this habit does more than fill our minds with intriguing ideas, |
| 0:43.7 | but has the potential to transform our lives from the inside out. |
| 0:47.9 | So if you're ready to learn more about that, go to Romans Chapter 12 in your Bible as we settle in for Chips Talk. |
| 0:55.3 | The year is 1978. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm a young guy who has ended up on an Australian basketball team. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm in graduate school, took a little time off, winter break, had about a three-week stint where I was going to join |
| 1:12.2 | an Australian team, go throughout the Orient, play basketball, and share Christ. I find myself in a |
| 1:18.5 | high rise, about 22 floors up or so, in a missionary's room. And in this room, he has a small |
| 1:25.2 | library, but they're all paperback books. And I'd ask a few |
| 1:29.3 | questions when we were the team and sharing some time. And something happened in that room in |
| 1:35.9 | 1978 that changed the course of my life. He put something in my hand. That's something that he put in my hand, God put in my heart. |
| 1:49.4 | And the very thing that he put in my hand and God put in my heart, |
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