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...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life Last week, in looking further at the importance of developing an eternal perspective, we talked about, since “science” is not able to either prove or disprove the existence of God, we then must turn to looking at “evidence”. We...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life So far in our series, we have made the case that, in order for Christians to grow from where they are to where they want to be, they must first abandon themselves to an eternal perspective. Not...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life Embracing an eternal perspective and maintaining an eternal perspective are two different things. It is one thing to be initially convinced of the need for an eternal perspective and quite another to live each day guided by an...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life The story is told of a time, early in the U.S. space program, when NASA scientists, in an effort to test the outer limits of human physical capacities, fitted the astronauts with complex goggles with multiple lenses...