Logos
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
“In the beginning was the Word.” The opening of John’s gospel applies an astonishing title to Jesus. Today, R.C. Sproul teaches that Christ is the eternal Logos: the source, sustainer, and purpose of everything that exists.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The ancient Greeks introduced the idea of science. |
| 0:04.0 | They claimed there was an ultimate knowable truth, and they called it Logos. |
| 0:09.0 | The conviction of every scientist is that there is knowledge at the end of the tunnel of investigation, |
| 0:15.0 | that the reality that we encounter is knowable. |
| 0:19.0 | Science is possible, which is to say knowledge is possible. If everything |
| 0:23.6 | were chaos, you couldn't know anything. Welcome to renewing your mind on this Wednesday. |
| 0:34.4 | You're hearing portions of our C. Sprooul's series Names of Jesus this week. |
| 0:39.2 | Today, we'll focus on Logos, and we're familiar with this, thanks to the poetic beginning |
| 0:44.6 | of John's Gospel. In the beginning was the Word, or the Logos, and the Word was with God, |
| 0:51.2 | and the Word was God. Don't forget that if you'd like to study all 12 messages |
| 0:56.2 | in this series, you can call us at 800-435-4343 or use the link in the podcast show notes to request |
| 1:04.2 | lifetime digital access with your donation of any amount. This offer ends tomorrow, so be sure to |
| 1:10.8 | respond today. Well, the word |
| 1:13.3 | Logos carried with it a lot of philosophical baggage. So to help us understand its meaning, |
| 1:18.6 | here's Dr. Sprawl. We continue now with our study of the person of Christ by looking at the |
| 1:27.2 | titles that are used for him |
| 1:29.1 | in the New Testament. So far, we've looked at those titles that occur most frequently for Jesus |
| 1:36.8 | in the biblical record. We've looked at the title Messiah or Christ that is so often used for him that we tend to think of it as his last |
| 1:46.1 | name. We looked at the title, Lord, that is the name or the title that is above every name. |
| 1:53.4 | We've looked at the title, Son of Man, which was Jesus' own favorite. Now, the title that we're |
| 2:00.6 | going to be looking at today is one that is |
| 2:04.8 | almost obscure in the New Testament so infrequently is it mentioned. But the way it is used and the |
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