With All Your Heart
Review Questions
Introduction
- How do we often use the term “heart”?
- What are some of the ways the Bible uses the term “heart”?
- Why is the heart central to the Christian faith?
- How does modern usage represent a diabolical challenge to the Christian faith?
- What phrase may represent the worst advice of worldly wisdom?
- How do we understand the unity of the heart?
- How is the heart complex?
- What are the “parts” of the human heart?
- How does God affect and redeem the heart?
Chapter 1
- Why is it important to recognize that the heart thinks?
- What are the functions of the thinking heart?
- How does it reason?
- What results from a lack of reasoning?
- What is the Biblical term for “reflecting”?
- What does it mean?
- What is the importance of remembering?
- What does a lack of understanding indicate?
- How does it reason?
- What are “men without chests”?
- How does the mind respond to the desires/love?
- Why people believe the head and heart are divided?
- Which (head or heart) does popular Christianity/culture often believe to be the most important?
- Which (head or heart) does reformed Christianity often believe to be the most important?
- How ought we view the division? What is the biblical view?
Chapter 2
- The Sin of the Mind
- Where do we find heart sins in Scripture?
- Why is self-delusion so destructive?
- How do we confront self-delusion?
- Falling Short
- How does our mind “fall short”?
- What is included in the sins of omission?
- What biblical example does the author use for the sins of omission?
- Impassioned Reason
- How does the Bible describe the unrepentant heart?
- What is its fatal flaw, intellectual or moral?
- What primal sin does this heart character reveal?
- How does the mind follow our passions?
- Do we have a duty to foster Lewis’ “chest”? Why or why not?
- Is sanctification a matter of thinking right and doing right?
- What does your answer require of you?
- How does the Bible describe the unrepentant heart?
Chapter 3
- The Prophetic Ministry of Christ
- Why did Jesus say it was better for the disciples for Him to ascend to heaven?
- Who is the “comforter”?
- What is His role in the prophetic ministry of Christ
- What means does the Spirit use in the prophetic ministry of Christ?
- How are circumstances used by the Spirit?
- What is the goal of the prophetic ministry of Christ?
- Transforming your mind
- How do logic and faith relate to each other?
- What does Romans 12:1-2 teach?
- about the world?
- about the word?
- What do we mean by semper reformanda?
- What should we mean by semper reformanda?
- What should be our default approach to the world?
- How does the Bible describe the way the mind sets our desires?
- How does knowledge grow?
- What is the cycle of sanctification?
- What is the ultimate goal of renewing our mind?
- What book of the Bible speaks most about assurance?
- How will the world attack the prophet of your mind?
- How ought we respond?
Chapter 4
What does Troxel believe the one ring symbolizes?
- What the Heart Desires
- How did the Puritans describe “desires”?
- How do desires appear in Scripture?
- What is the true ultimate desire of every heart?
- How does this explain idolatry?
- How important are holy affections?
- What means do Baxter and Swinnock suggest God uses to direct our affections toward Him?
- How did the Puritans describe “desires”?
- What the Heart Loves
- How potent is raw desire?
- What is the supreme affection?
- What is the solution to corrupt desires?
- What lesson does the football game teach?
- Why are our desires often weak?
- What is the consequence of weak desires?
- Why did the Puritans use the term “affections”?
- How does Troxel define idolatry?
- Can we define it better?
- What the Heart Feels
- How does the Bible describe intense feelings?
- How does this feature in our lives?
- The Desires of the Heart and Our Mind and Will
- How does C.S.Lewis describe the relationship between the mind, desire, and will?
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