The Tulip Driven Life

Below are videos broken up into four parts of all that I wrote for this blog post, plus I intermixed additional commentary and exhortation apart from what is written in the post below. I think you will benefit more from watching than reading, and get where I am coming from better, as inflection and voice is always better than the written word lying flatly. But by all means, if you can't watch it, read it, or do both. Hopefully you will find it both encouraging and convicting. Part 1: Thoughts on 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 2: Thoughts on 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 3: Thoughts on the 2012 Ligonier National Conference Part 4: Thoughts on the Ligonier National Conference Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads. I believe Sproul said this originally, I am not sure. Regardless, that needs to be the message proclaimed to every person that takes on the name of Christ, because Sinclair Ferguson was right whe...

Ligonier national conference 2012 Session 1: R.C. Sproul Title: Have You Lost Your Mind? We are living in the most anti intellectual time in our history particularly in Christian living. Look at relationship of mind to body, minds to wills, and mind to hearts.  Mind to body: we hear a request to raise our hands and we do so. Thats mind to body. B.F. Skinner said that we are determined totally materialistically with no will or choice whatsoever in Beyond Freedom and Dignity. The brain is material and can be measured, but our mind, our thoughts, is not the same thing as the mass of tissue inside our skull.  The chief place where we live is in our minds, in our thoughts and thinking. We must not confuse the material and the mental.  How can a thought produce a physical reality, and vice versa. Descartes said "I think therefore I am." Descartes also said anything that is material has extension, it can be measured. Unlike the body, the mind is not extended, it can...