Playlist: Mind, Training of (topic)
Simplifying Life (Part Seven): Practicing Spiritual Scales
Sermon by David F. MaasTraining the mind requires consistent daily practice of spiritual scales consisting of prayer, Bible study, meditation, and fasting. These disciplines function like musical scales that a musician rehearses to develop precision, muscle memory, and ease under complexity. Through such training the mind becomes tuned to God's …
Use It or Lose It
Sermonette by Hunter D. SwansonMemory functions as a lens for understanding the necessity of training and exercising the mind in one's relationship with God. Just as muscles atrophy without use, the mind experiences cognitive atrophy when not actively engaged, and memory itself flows through nearly every function of daily life, from routines to skills to …
Teaching Us To Think (Part Three): Proving God's Will
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughAs God tests His people, He desires that they test and prove His Laws to demonstrate that they invariably work, to prove these principles by following them.
Self-Discipline
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughProtestant theology recognizes that Christian self-discipline presents a major logical difficulty in its keystone doctrine of 'by grace alone.'
Freedom and Unleavened Bread
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughChristian freedom has nothing to do with location or circumstance but how we think. By imbibing on God's Word, we will incrementally displace our carnality.