The Battle for the Mind
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The greatest battles of the Christian life are waged on the battlefield of our minds. Today, Steven Lawson explains that if we are to cultivate a life of godliness, we must strive to cultivate a mind rooted in God's truth.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Steven Lawson is founder and president of OnePassion Ministries in Dallas. He is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, professor of preaching and dean of D.Min. studies at The Master's Seminary, and teacher for the Institute for Expository Preaching. He is author of many books, including The Passionate Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Knox: Fearless Faith, and The Moment of Truth.
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 | Our minds are the initial battlefield upon which our Christian life is contested and it's there that the battle is one or lost |
| 0:10.1 | There must be this ever and always ongoing process of renewing our minds according to what is right, what is true, what is pure, what is wholesome. |
| 0:23.0 | What is wholesome. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm your host Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:35.0 | You're listening today and perhaps every day I trust because you take Paul's charge in |
| 0:41.0 | Romans 12 too seriously. the call to have our minds renewed, because in order |
| 0:46.8 | to live well, we must first think well. |
| 0:50.2 | And Paul shares similar thoughts not only in Romans, but in Ephesians and Colosians and |
| 0:55.2 | and right thinking is the theme of today's verse in Philippians. |
| 0:59.9 | Stephen Lawson has been joining us this week as we've considered the joy of the Lord, the peace of God, and today the Christian mind, which is a battlefield for sure, especially with the volume of the noise and the wrong ideas on every area of life, including |
| 1:17.4 | eternal life. |
| 1:19.4 | Before we get to today's message and to help you as you seek to renew your mind according to the |
| 1:24.8 | word of God you can own Dr. Lawson's 42 message study in Philippians when you |
| 1:30.2 | give a gift of any amount at renewing your mind dot org. |
| 1:34.0 | Well here's Dr. Lawson in Philippians 4 verse 8. |
| 1:40.0 | In this session we want to look at verse 8 and we're going to be talking about the battle for the mind |
| 1:47.2 | Philippians chapter 4 and verse 8 and this is such a practical passage that deals really with what's at the epicenter of our Christian |
| 1:59.0 | walk. |
| 2:00.0 | Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever |
| 2:08.8 | is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, |
| 2:17.8 | dwell on these things. |
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