Book Review: Renewing Your Mind by Neil T. Anderson
Book Review: Renewing Your Mind by Neil T. Anderson
Renewing Your Mind is a Bible study book, not a read-through book. It is designed for individual or small group study. It is organized into six week’s worth of bite-sized lessons. The lay-out reminded me of the scripture in Isaiah 28 that talks about learning precept upon precept, line upon line. This study does that. It was orderly and progressive.
This book is also one small part of a large quantity of Bible study books meant to be studied together and probably in order, too.
For each day there is a suggested passage of scripture to read (not included in the text), a commentary that usually included some sort of word picture, metaphor or analogy that was easy to understand, and questions to stir your thinking intended to help with application.
The question section has room (in the print edition) to write your answers in the book. And this section seemed most suited for small groups, as I found some of the questions to be frustrating or pointless, at least without someone to discuss them with.
The first two chapters (weeks) were foundational in nature and then succeeding chapters (weeks) were focused on specific topics that are common trouble points for many Christians, that is, anger, anxiety, depression, and handling loss.
This book contains lots of nuggets of wisdom and it seemed geared towards for Christians that were believers young in their faith or perhaps those who have not ever learned some basics of the Christian life for whatever reason.
If you are newer to the Christian faith or you teach a Sunday school class or cell group with newer believers check this book out. It may be just what you were looking for!
To purchase your own copy of this book go here:Renewing Your Mind: Become More Like Christ (Victory Series) (Volume 4)
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(c) 2014 Cheryl Cope

A woman at my church was just telling me about this book. I will add it to my list. Thank you, Cheryl!
You are welcome!
Cheryl, thanks for the helpful review. I have benefitted from his books in the past and didn’t even know about this one. I’ll have to check it out now!
Yes, me, too. I didn’t know about them, but there’s a whole series.
Good review. I liked that you have given a good description of the structure of the book. When looking for Bible study book the structure as well as content is useful information. For me anyway because if the book isn’t logical in structure I tend not to use it. Thanks for sharing!
Yes, I think structure is important because it facilitates or hinders the learning and/or application of the actual info.
I have read another one of Neil Anderson’s books but this one was not known to me. Thanks for the review, Cheryl.
I think this is a newer series of books…