Is Your Brain Being Wired for Deeper Thinking? The Christian’s Calling and Incentive to Read
Joel Minderhoud, a science teacher at Covenant Christian High School, exhorts Reformed Christians to develop their reading habits as a means of growing in knowledge of God and grace, particularly through engaging with Reformed publications like the Standard Bearer. The article addresses the challenge of maintaining disciplined reading in an increasingly distraction-filled digital age, presenting reading as a vital Christian practice for covenant people.
The following is adapted from the speech the author gave at the RFPA's annual meeting on September 26, 2024 at Southwest Protestant Reformed Church. Dear friends and supporters of the RFPA, To us whom God has graciously given the gift of faith, comes the exhortation of the Word of God to read and to give attendance to doctrine; to grow in grace and knowledge of God; to get wisdom. God has given us means to grow in grace and in knowledge of Him. While reading is not the only means God has...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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