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God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation is unavailable, but you can change that!

During the seventeenth century, English Puritan pastors often encouraged their congregations in the spiritual discipline of meditating on God and His Word. Today, however, much of evangelicalism is either ignorant of or turned off to the idea of meditation. In God’s Battle Plan for the Mind, pastor David Saxton seeks to convince God’s people of the absolute necessity for personal meditation and...

The Puritans further divided deliberate meditation into two categories: direct and reflexive meditation. Direct meditation is used to gain a better scriptural understanding of a topic, whereas reflexive meditation is employed to convict the heart about the application of the newly found understanding. As Henry Scudder explained, “The first [direct meditation] is an act of the contemplative part of the understanding; the second [reflexive meditation] is an act of conscience. The
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