Practical Applications
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever struggled with doubts concerning your salvation? Today, Joel Beeke gives practical advice to help Christians overcome doubt and live in the joy of assurance.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Joel Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and a pastor at Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, MI.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Let us say with Fannie Crosby in her poeticized classic hymn, Blessed Assurance, |
| 0:07.4 | Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Error of salvation, |
| 0:13.8 | purchase of God, born of his spirit, washed in his blood. Perfect submission. All is at rest. |
| 0:19.9 | I and my Savior am happy and blessed. |
| 0:22.4 | Watching and waiting, looking above, filled with his goodness, lost in his love. This is my story. |
| 0:28.7 | This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song. |
| 0:36.6 | praising my Savior all the day long. |
| 0:45.3 | That should be the song of every believer. |
| 0:49.3 | Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. |
| 0:53.3 | But as we've heard this week, our assurance can increase or diminish over our Christian life. |
| 0:59.0 | So what can a struggling believer do? |
| 1:02.0 | That's our topic today on renewing your mind. |
| 1:05.0 | Today is our final day in Joel Beakey's Assurance of Faith series, |
| 1:10.0 | and you'll hear him summarize |
| 1:11.7 | practical steps we can take when our assurance is weak. |
| 1:15.9 | If you'd like to own this series, request the 11-part DVD set, along with digital access, |
| 1:22.2 | when you give a donation before midnight tonight at Renewing Your Mind.org. So what advice is there for those who lack assurance of their salvation or who struggle |
| 1:32.5 | with doubts? |
| 1:34.0 | Here's Dr. Beakey. |
| 1:38.1 | Well, I want to conclude this series on assurance of faith by just reading for you, Mark 9, verse 24, straightway, the father of the |
| 1:51.5 | child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief. Well, I want to wrap up them with a few questions that I'd like to try to |
| 2:04.7 | answer three or four questions. The first is this. I cannot deny that I'm a true believer, |
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