We continue our ESN Book Club discussion of John Stott's Your Mind Matters with chapter 3, "The Mind in Christian Life." Stott "examines six spheres of Christian living, each of which is impossible without the proper use of the mind," namely: Christian worship Christian faith Christian holiness Christian guidance Christian evangelism Christian ministry We could discuss all of these if we had time, but two items on this list which particularly struck me were holiness and guidance. … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 3: The Mind in Christian Life
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Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?
In the section entitled thinking God's thoughts, John Stott argues Psalm 19:1-4 and Romans 1:18-21 refer to God's self-revelation through the created order. Although it is a proclamation without speech, a voice without words, yet as a result of it all men to some degree "know God." This assumed ability of man to read what God has written in the universe is extremely important. All scientific research depends upon it, upon a correspondence between the character of what is being investigated and the mind of the … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?
Your Mind Matters 1: Mindless Christianity
This week starts our first ESN Book Club. Over the next four weeks, Tom and I will be leading our discussion of John Stott's classic, Your Mind Matters. If you don't have a copy of the book, our introduction to the ESN Book Club includes several options where you can buy it. This week, we'll be discussing the Mark Noll's foreword and chapter one, "Mindless Christianity," which are available as free PDF downloads from InterVarsity Press. Here's how this will work: Tom and I will alternate with a post about the book … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 1: Mindless Christianity
Who is in your class?
Would you agree with my idealistic enthusiasm for My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, the story of a professor of anthropology at a large state university who realized that she no longer understood the behavior and attitudes of her students and returned to the classroom? And my uneasiness when reading that some "Online Professors Pose as Students to Encourage Real Learning" (Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/29/09), in the class which they're teaching? Can you offer testimonies, … [Read more...] about Who is in your class?