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Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service,” writes John Stott. “If we do not use the mind which God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality.” While Christians have had a heritage of rigorous scholarship and careful thinking, some circles still view the intellect with suspicion or even as contradictory to Christian faith. Many non-Christians are quick to...

What Paul wrote about unbelieving Jews in his day could be said, I fear, of some believing Christians in ours: “I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but it is not enlightened.”1 Many have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. Now I thank God for zeal. Heaven forbid that knowledge without zeal should replace zeal without knowledge! God’s purpose is both, zeal directed by knowledge, knowledge
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