Rejoicing in Christ

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jesus is more than the Giver of our salvation. He is salvation's greatest treasure. Today, we share a discussion with Michael Reeves. Drawing from his book Rejoicing in Christ, he invites us to find deeper delight in our marvelous Redeemer.

Get Michael Reeves' book Rejoicing in Christ with your donation: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Request Dr. Reeves' digital teaching series and study guide for The Fear of the Lord with your donation: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

Meet Today's Teacher:

Michael Reeves is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in Wales, and host of the podcast Delighting in the Trinity.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	The way in which we are transformed is not by simply telling ourselves we ought to become more like him and trying.
0:11.0	The heart, the fuel to our transformation is beholding him, gazing on him so that I don't just try to know truths about him.
0:24.7	The great doctrines about Christ are the throne that lifts up Christ so that I gaze on him
0:31.8	in all his perfections and by gazing on him, I become transformed into his image.
0:44.3	The Christian life is not transformed simply by trying harder, it is transformed as we behold Christ.
0:51.8	Hello and welcome to this special edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:55.6	During this year's national conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Michael
0:59.7	Reeves to discuss what it means not only to know about Christ, but to truly delight
1:05.1	in Him.
1:07.1	Drawing from Dr. Reeves' book, Rejoicing in Christ, our conversation explores why Jesus is not peripheral to the Christian life.
1:14.9	He's central.
1:18.2	It is a distinct honor and privilege to welcome Ligeneer Ministries' newest teaching fellow, Dr. Michael Reeves, to our podcast studio.
1:26.2	It's great to have you with us.
1:27.4	Thank you. Thank you.
1:28.3	We are so grateful that you accepted the invitation from the Ligonier Board to become a teaching fellow.
1:35.3	What are you looking forward to in that regard?
1:37.3	Well, the partnership, the working together with Ligonier has been so sweet over a decade or so. And for that relationship and friendship to
1:47.7	deepen, it's been an encouragement to me to have like-minded brothers and sisters to be standing
1:56.2	together with. And for that partnership to deepen, will, I pray, be an even greater encouragement.
2:04.2	Did Dr. Sprole have an influence on your understanding of God and who God is and who you are?
2:10.2	Yes, so I think one of the most influential books of his, for me, was his work by faith alone,
2:18.3	where he's looking at the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
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