Well, Dr. Claussen, thank you again for sitting down.

You know, it says for a believer, there's so many commands in Scripture.

It says that we are to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, and then it says our mind and our strength.

And there's this importance of the mind in the Christian's life.

It says in Colossians 3, we're to set our minds on things above.

We see even in the transformation that takes place in the life of a believer that we are to be renewed in our mind.

Romans 12, 2.

Ephesians 423 says we're to be renewed in the spirit of our mind.

It says, I'm looking here in 2 Corinthians 10-5, that we're to take every thought captive.

And so we see this reality of the mind's importance just replete throughout the word of God.

I want you to just speak to that.

And why we need to understand that as a Christian, maybe even call into play there,

how Satan uses our minds to

prevent us from seeing the glory of God. Talk about the mind's importance and why it's even a

battle for the Christian. Yeah, that is a very important topic for us as believers. The topic of the mind, so much in Christianity today is so focused

on other things, primarily on emotions or in other expressions of Christianity. You'll have

the emphasis placed on ritual, on liturgy, on mindless repetition.

Jesus even addressed that as he addressed the Pharisees.

And instead, you have Jesus, as well as the Old Testament law itself, calling upon the people of God to love God with their minds. Christianity, biblically

speaking, is first and foremost, if I can use a term religion, it's a religion of the mind.

It deals with truth. Jesus himself even said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And when we look at John's

gospel in the prologue, Jesus is described as the word, which is a reference to truth. He is

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