Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life We learned last week that there are three categories of spiritual warfare: Dirty Tricks Mind Games Hand-to-Hand Combat This week we we'll look at the three levels of defense we have in spiritual warfare. Three Levels of Defense in...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life We learned last week that we must be prepared to fight the invisible war, as the third step in forging an eternal perspective that is adequate for life in the 21st century. This week, we learn that there...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life The premise of this blog series is that if we renew our minds, we will transform our lives. So Romans 12:2 tells us. The goal is change - spiritual change - from what we are now to...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life A commercial on television says, “I want it all, and I want it now.” Modern American culture doesn’t like to wait. We think it is to our greatest advantage to take one bird in the hand rather...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life This blog series is on “change”: How can we be transformed from what we are to what we would like to be? First, we must abandon ourselves to an eternal perspective. We must be utterly committed to viewing reality...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life As we've seen in the first 11 posts in this blog series if we don’t get the “eternal-perspective” issue right in the Christian life, there is much of the rest of the Christian life we won’t get...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life Hope is a powerful motivator. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear trials today. Studies of prisoners of war during the Viet Nam war who maintained hope that they would ultimately be released...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life The question of “why God doesn’t make our lives go better” is the problem of evil that we finished talking about last week, filtering down from the cosmic level to the personal level. It’s one thing for...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life I once tried to explain something to my 3-year-old granddaughter that she didn’t understand. It was perfectly clear to me. Obvious, even. But she couldn’t understand it. Her brain was not developed enough to grasp it. One day...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life We don’t want to lose sight of why we are going through this series, which will take months to complete. First, to protect ourselves from rejecting Christianity. Any number of mega-church pastors have defected from the faith in recent...