An email question comes into us from the West Coast.

Hello, Pastor John, my name is Nathan, and I'm a college student in the Bay Area, California.

In my first year of college, I found your sermons and books quite helpful on the journey

for joy, thinking back to your early days at Wheaton College and your annual involvement

at the passion conferences.

What advice would you give to a college student today?

Well, I wrote down a jot a down notes on seven pieces of advice, and there could have

been a lot more, but I know these podcasts are supposed to be manageable.

Number one, love God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength.

It is the first and the great commandment, that is, use your mind, your college educated

mind to feed the fires of the heart with the fuel of truth.

Let everything you study function as a means of inflaming the heart.

Put all your intellectual and physical effort into guarding and fueling your heart.

Never give in to the emotionalism which neglects thinking or the intellectualism which neglects

the heart.

Loving God with the heart is the great essence of why the universe was created, treasuring

God over all things.

That's what loving God means.

The mind and the body, when it says love God, all the heart and the mind and the body,

the mind and the body are the servants of the heart.

And then the passions of the heart become visible through the mind and the body.

That's number one.

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