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Renewing Your Mind

The Knight’s Map

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Knight's Map is the story of a knight who undertakes a perilous journey full of bad advice and wrong turns. In the end, he must decide whether or not he will trust the map provided by the King. Today, R.C. Sproul reads his children's tale about the reliability of Scripture.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up next, Enri, you know your mind.

0:02.9

Suddenly, without warning, the road ended in a cliff.

0:08.2

If his trusty horse had taken even one more step,

0:11.3

they would have plunged to their deaths.

0:13.5

Stories captivate the imagination and stir the soul. And stories built on truth teach

0:26.5

timeless lessons to young hearts. Today, on redoing your mind, we are privileged to

0:31.9

present our founder, R.C. Sproul, reading his children's book, The Night's Map. R.C.

0:37.7

Love writing these books. He wrote several of them. As it turned out, this was his last

0:42.7

children's book before he went home to be with the Lord in 2017. In February of that year,

0:48.5

R.C. and I sat down to talk about what inspired him to write this particular story. We'll listen to

0:54.5

that interview at the end of the program today, but for now, I hope you'll gather the whole family

0:58.9

together to enjoy Dr. Sproul reading The Night's Map. The McFarlons had family devotions every evening

1:08.2

after dinner. They read the Bible, sang hymns, and prayed together. One evening, Donovan said,

1:17.3

Dad, the kids at baseball laugh and tease me and say, we're old fashioned. They say, we're wasting

1:24.9

our time reading the Bible. That it's just an old book for made up stories. Mr. McFarlons smiled

1:32.9

and said, son, that problem has been around for a long, long time. Many people have laughed at

1:39.6

the Bible, saying it's not the Word of God that it's filled with myths and made up stories

1:45.4

without meaning for us today. When Grandpa comes this evening, you can ask him, I think he might

1:52.9

have an answer. Donovan and the rest of the children wondered what Grandpa might say.

1:58.1

That evening, Grandpa had barely settled into his favorite chair before Donovan repeated his question.

2:06.8

Do you think that we can really trust our Bible? Grandpa has eyes, twinkled. He said, I just

2:17.9

happen to have a story about that. Would you like to hear it? The children said, oh yes, Grandpa,

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