The Psalms

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Are you seeking to grow in your prayer life? Then immerse your mind in the Psalms. Today, R.C. Sproul considers how these divinely inspired prayers teach us to approach our holy God with confession, supplication, and adoration.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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

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0:00.0	Hi, Nathan W. Bingham here, host of Renewing Your Mind. I hope you can join us, August, in South Portland,
0:06.6	for an always-ready youth apologetics event. I'll be joined by Dr. Stephen Nichols and Pastor Eric
0:12.3	Bancroft for a full day of teaching and fellowship. Today, countless voices pull us, especially
0:18.6	young people, in different directions, urging us to embrace
0:22.5	contradicting ideas of what it means to just be yourself. But in the midst of this chaos,
0:28.7	we can be left wondering, who am I? Really? On Saturday, August 2nd, we'll explore our identity,
0:36.0	providing answers from Scripture to combat the opposition
0:39.0	of our day, whether that's to do with gender and sexuality, our status as forgiven Christians,
0:45.1	or the rise of artificial intelligence and the coming challenges to what it means to be human.
0:50.9	I invite all Christians, age 12 to 18, and their parents and youth pastors, to join us that
0:56.7	weekend. If you haven't registered, you can learn more and register at Ligonier.org
1:02.0	slash always ready New England. Or visit Ligeneer.org slash events for all upcoming cities and dates.
1:09.9	Now on to today's episode of Renewing Your Mind.
1:13.7	The reason I would say to people, if you want to learn how to pray, immerse yourself in the
1:18.7	Psalms, is this, that here in this book, we have divinely inspired prayers.
1:28.3	Prayers of supplication, prayers of celebration, prayers of confession, but above all, prayers of adoration.
1:39.3	The wisdom literature of the Old Testament can help us to grow in wisdom, to grow in our ability to live life skillfully, but it can also help us to pray.
1:55.0	I'm glad you're with us for this Thursday edition of renewing your mind, and today, R.C. Sprole will focus his attention on the
2:02.4	Psalms and why this is where he would direct people who were struggling with prayer, to this
2:08.3	book of divinely inspired prayers. Well, here's R.C. Sprole, the founder of Ligonier Ministries,
2:14.7	and the first president of Reformation Bible College.
2:21.6	I think that most all of us have a favorite teacher in your life somewhere. My favorite teacher
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