Energize Your Mind

By Pastor Peter Mueller

This last weekend, my message was called Energize Your Mind as we reflected on the biblical call to love God with our whole being, including our minds. Jesus said the greatest commandment is “Love the Lord your God with all your heat and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37) St. Paul calls us to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). The main point of this week’s message was “what you THINK shapes who you ARE today and who you BECOME tomorrow - so SEEK OUT and ENGAGE CONTENT that SHAPES YOU to THINK LIKE GOD.” I then shared a number of resources to help you think more deeply about your faith and how it connects to the rest of life - as a reminder, please find below a complete list of those resources for your perusal and enrichment, including links to all resources available online. My challenge to you is to choose even ONE of these many resources and dig into it this week as a way to “love God with your mind”. I think you’ll be glad you did!

In His Strength and Peace,

Pastor Peter

P.S. This is one of those emails you might want to save for future reference and/or share with a friend or family member! Happy reading, listening, and watching as you love God with your mind!


Books
* How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth
* Good Faith: Being a Christian When Society Thinks You’re Irrelevant and Extreme
* Doing God’s Business: Meaning and Motivation for the Marketplace
* The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World
* Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
* Get Your Life Back: Everyday Practices in a World Gone Mad
* Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe
* Consider Your Calling: Six Questions for Discerning Your Vocation

Podcasts
* Ask NT Wright Anything
* John Eldredge and Wild at Heart 
* Focus on the Family
* One to One - Hope Youth and Jonathan Kopecky
* Bible Project
* Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Apps
* YouVersion/The Bible App
* Read Scripture - from the Bible Project
* The One Minute Pause App
* Wild at Heart App

Blogs and Websites
* christianitytoday.com 
* thegospelcoalition.org 
* https://careynieuwhof.com/blog/ - Leadership, Church
* https://blog.faithlife.com
* https://www.lcms.org/social-issues

Movies
* Amazing Grace
* End of the Spear
* Luther
* The Chosen - link is for Amazon, also available at https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen