Mind and Body
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The human brain is one of creation’s mysteries. Today, R.C. Sproul considers the relationship between our internal thoughts and our physical actions, explaining that a transformed mind leads to a transformed life.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He 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, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | What an enormous resource God has given his creatures with the brain as it relates to thinking. |
| 0:08.0 | We're not just empty minds. We don't live merely as thinkers, but we do play football, we play the piano, we play golf, we walk across the street, we ride bicycles. |
| 0:20.0 | We are engaged in physical activity all the time because not only do we have a mind, but we also |
| 0:26.8 | have a body. |
| 0:27.8 | The Psalmist in Psalm 139 declares to God, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. |
| 0:42.0 | And we are fearfully and wonderfully made. The more we learn about our brains |
| 0:46.7 | and its relationship to our bodies the more incredible it is and that's some of what |
| 0:51.0 | R.C. Sprawl will consider on this Tuesday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:57.0 | We don't often think about thinking, but we should, the very active thinking about thinking, and reflecting on the ability that we have as humans to think |
| 1:06.8 | should lead us to praise God like that Psalmist in Psalm 139. |
| 1:11.8 | So this week as you hear messages from Dr. Sproll's series Think Like a |
| 1:16.0 | Christian. Our hope is that you would not only become a better Christian |
| 1:20.2 | thinker, but that your affection for God and devotion to him would also increase. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's get started today with Dr. Sprawl on the mind and the body. |
| 1:39.7 | We're always interested in frontier exploration. Some of the most thrilling adventure stories of the past has to do with those people who risked life |
| 1:45.5 | and limb to explore new worlds, new areas of this planet and all of the adventure of people like Magellan and Vosko-Dagama and others. |
| 1:58.0 | Well nowadays they talk in different terms about the new frontier. Some think of outer space as being the dominant |
| 2:07.4 | frontier of our day. Others are saying that there's a portion of this world that is a brand new frontier, namely the depths of the oceans. |
| 2:20.0 | Because we're now just beginning to have the technology to explore that area of this world |
| 2:28.8 | that heretofore in many ways has not been explored. |
| 2:33.3 | But other scientists argue that the real greatest |
| 2:36.8 | and most significant frontier of our day |
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