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?
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?

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?
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?

Chapter 5

The Iniquity of Sin
- What is the point of this section?
  - What does it mean that our desires are crooked?
  - What does it mean that our desires are corrupt?
The Iniquity of Desires
- It the biblical work for “desires” positive or negative?
- What are some examples of twisted desires?
  - How twisted does Paul describe our desires in Romans 1?
  - How do our twisted desires fool us?
The Iniquity of Love
- How do we identify our true god (who we really worship)?
- Where is the chief problem with our desires?
  - Why is it important to recognize this?
- How do twisted desire affect our minds?
- How do twisted desire affect our feelings?
The Relationship between Iniquity and the Rest of the Heart
- How much of a problem are twisted desires?

Chapter 6

What is the historic two works of Jesus as our priest?

A Clean Heart: Consecrated Desire
- What are the two aspects of our consecration?
  - How do each work?
  - Why is it important to recognize both?
A Pure Heart: Undivided Desire
- What is the distinction between “clean” and “pure”?
- What is the method of creating purity?
- What is the objective of the pure heart?
  - How does this objective affect our desires?
  - How does this help in our temptations?
    - Can you think of examples not listed in the book?
- Will we ever have completely pure desires?
- How do we find encouragement in struggles?
- How does God train us?

Chapter 7

What is the will?

The Disobedient Will
1. The Stubborn Heart
  - What does a stubborn heart mean?
    - How is stubbornness good?
    - How is stubbornness bad?
2. The Proud Heart
  - What metaphor does the Bible use to portray pride?
  - How does that inform our understanding of what pride is?
3. The Uncircumcised Heart
  - What is the uncircumcised heart?
  - What is a stubborn will?
  - What is a proud will?
4. The Weak Heart
  - What is a weak will?
  - How does a lack of resolution appear in the Bible?
  - How does a lack of courage appear in the Bible?
  - How does sinful inaction appear in the Bible?
The Obedient Will
1. The Surrendered Heart
  - What is a “broken heart” according to the Bible?
  - What does the “broken heart” never tire of doing?
2. The Strengthened Heart
  - What ought our heart be set upon?
  - What examples of the strong heart appear in the Bible?
The Will and the Rest of the Heart
- How is the fallen will broken?
- How is the fallen will in bondage?
- How is the fallen will free?
- How is the redeemed will free?
- How does the will affect the mind?
- How does the mind affect the will?

Chapter 8

What is the essential character of the sinful will?

How does this character appear in children?

The Rebellious Heart: Transgression
- What is sin?
- What is transgression?
  - What is at the heart of rebellion?
The Weak or Powerless Heart: Passive Rebellion
1. Enslavement
  - What is the will enslaved to?
  - What is self-control?
2. Fear
  - What is the vice-laden heart afraid of?
3. Unbelief
  - What is unbelief?
Conclusion
- How is the will always twofold?

Chapter 9

How does Christ as king affect our will? (WSC 26)

Through what means does Christ rule His people?

The Strengthened Will: Saying no

What person of the trinity is most active in the change in our will?

1. Resolve
  - What do godly trials test most, mind or will?
    - How?
  - What other name is given to “resolve”?
    - How does this affect our understanding of the will?
  - What is evidence of resolve?
2. Freedom
  - What is “Christian freedom”?
  - What is the impact of committing to the principle of “Christian freedom”?
3. Courage
  - Why is courage so important?
  - How do we overcome cowardice?
    - How do we practice to face the grizzly?
The Surrendered Will: Saying yes

Why the sled dog story?

1. Submission
  - What does submission mean?
  - What does submission require?
2. Self-denial
  - How thorough must our self-denial be?
3. Self-control and self-discipline
  - What is the difference between self-control and self-discipline?
    - Why do we need both?
  - Why do we understand temptation and sin better than the world?
    - Why do we keep ourselves from things other find acceptable?
  - How do we strengthen self-control and self-discipline?
    - What areas of self-control are you working on this year?
    - What areas of self-discipline are you working on this year?
4. The Strong and Surrendered will of Christ
  - How is Christ our example of a holy will?

Chapter 10

The Importance of Keeping the Heart

Why is keeping the heart important?
What do we keep it from?

Keeping the heart: Preserving and Protecting

How are these two idea different?

Preserving

1. What is the first duty in preserving your heart?
  - What is the tool for this duty?
2. How big does a sin need to be to warrant our attention?
3. What should be our approach to sin to preserve our hearts?
4. What is the positive work in preserving the heart?
  - How does the Lord’s Supper fit in this work?

Protecting

1. Where do temptations come from?
2. How does the Bible instruct us to protect ourselves from temptation?
  - How does prayer protect from temptation?
  - What virtues are necessary for prayer?

Conclusion

Do we have habits of protecting our hearts?

Chapter 11
What are the gates of the heart?

The Eyes of the Heart

Where does spiritual blindness come from?
How does spiritual blindness affect what someone actually sees?
How ought we direct our eyes?
How old are eyes sins?
- How do our eyes lead to wrong desires?
How active must be our guard against eye sins?
Why does Troxel spend so much time on the sin of lust?
What measures might be necessary to guard your eyes?
What sins beside lust come in through the eye?

The Ears of the Heart

How is protecting the ears different from protecting the eyes?
- What is different between eye content and ear content?
How does listening turn to sin?
How should we think about the company we keep?
How else do we hear things we ought not?

Conclusion

Why are eye and ear guards so important today?

Chapter 12

Why is the object of our heart often so difficult to find?
What is the ambassador of your heart?
What does this mean?

The Mouth as Ambassador

How do we learn where someone else’s heart is?
Why are we often ignorant of our own heart?
Why is the tongue such a problem?
What is our first line of defense?
- Why is this imperfect?
- How does it help?

Words of Hypocrisy

What commandment does hypocrisy break? Why?
Who does hypocrisy try to deceive?
Who does it really deceive?
What are empty words?

Redeemed Speech

How do we approach our hurtful, empty, sinful speech?
What separates an apology from confession and repentance?
What is the positive side of repentance?
How long will the redemption of our speech take?
- What virtues will we need to practice our efforts to redeem our speech?
What is the best redeemed speech?

Chapter 13

What is a Psalm of ascent and what do they matter?

Keeping the faith

What does God require of His people?
Can they do it of themselves?
- Why/Why not?
- What is needed?

The Lord, Our Keeper

What is a “leitmotif”? Why does it matter?
Why is God’s presence important?
What does God’s presence mean to us?

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With All Your Heart

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