Ebook Guide Your Mind Guard Your Heart Grace Your Tongue Carol Burton McLeod Carol Kent 9781641230001 Books

Product details Paperback 256 pages Publisher Whitaker House (April 3, 2018) Language English ISBN-10 1641230002

Guide Your Mind Guard Your Heart Grace Your Tongue Carol Burton McLeod Carol Kent 9781641230001 Books Reviews

• This book is a life changer! I know now how to recognize if my thoughts are generated from my soul or my spirit. Carol has outdone herself with this book! (And I've read every one of them!) She sticks to the Scriprures and continues to call us into a deeper and more abundant life in Christ Jesus. Thank you, dear Carol McLeod!
• This book has helped me realize so many things that I had not thought about before with my Spiritual Life. I am very grateful for the insights it has provided.
• Great book. I am reading and rereading it. Easy read with lots of applicable information. I will probably purchase more for friends. This is my first book by this author.
• Wow. Everyone needs to read this! Encouraged and equipped to win this battle over our mind and our words.
• This is one of the best books I have ever read!
• This book, aside from a few caveats below, was one of the best books on spiritual growth that I've read in a very long time. If you loved Elizabeth George's "Loving God with All Your Mind," this is a great book to dive a bit deeper. The way Ms. McLeod puts her heart into the heart of Scripture and shows a commitment to LIVING that scripture is exactly why this book got 5 stars when, at first, I thought I wouldn't finish it.
  One of my favorite quotes shows what I mean
  
  “It must be absolute truth alone for you to spend any time at all thinking about it. If you don’t know that something is fundamentally true, then throw it in the trash! If you can’t verify and justify a certain piece of mental information, then do not spend another millisecond letting it rest in the recesses of your brain. If a thought is not true, then it does not pass the litmus test of belonging in your brain.”
  
  By the time I'd read that, I was thankful that I'd requested a review copy!
  
  Problems I had with Guide Your Mind?
  
  These were a few things that really alarmed me
  First, she wrote as if she expects God to speak to us, outside His Word, and we are to speak those words to others. The way it is described sounds very much like extra-Biblical revelation.
  
  However, later reading on that did make me think that she meant God speaking the Word to us. Then, later on, an anecdote she used about God speaking to her mother could not be her using “God speaking to you” as “Remembering what God said through His Word about this type of situation.”
  
  Additionally…
  Her section on how with the Holy Spirit, we can think like God does, understand “just as Jesus does,” and have “divine creativity,” is what nearly made me put the book down. They may have been written with different ideas in mind, but I couldn’t help but feel like I was hearing Satan in the garden assuring us that we can “be like God” et cetera. I understand the reasoning behind why she would say that, but I couldn’t swallow it.
  
  And finally, her use of miraculous is rather loose to me.
  
  The rest, however? Surprisingly and delightfully excellent. While I wouldn’t give this book to a new or immature Christian without some warnings (above), this is one of the best books I’ve seen on these topics. Most of what she has to say is sound, and I will be going over the above in the Word, with the Scriptures she shared, and I’ll be comparing it all to context, the Greek, and what I’ve previously understood to be truth to be certain that I am not wrong! Because I never want to pretend that I’ve cornered the market of Biblical understanding!
• Guide your Mind, Guard your Heart, Grace your Tongue by Carol Burton McLeod
  
  The mind is such a powerful thing, and if left uncontrolled, causes all kinds of damage. This book shares practical advice on how to control the thoughts we think, put a guard on our heart and be careful of the words that we speak. The truths shared here are ones that all Christians should be living.
  
  Author Carol Burton McLeod shares Scripture, real-life stories and practical application questions to help Christians in their spiritual growth. She offers strategies for countering the lies of the Enemy of our souls. It is clear that she has a desire to teach Christians how to live victorious lives.
  
  A couple of caveats. . .
  
  In the chapter “Are There Two of Me”, she talks about the war between the flesh and spirit, however, it sounds like she is saying that the spirit is good and the soul is bad. I assumed I had heard her wrong and read further only to see her mention that a particular bad action came from the soul, not the spirit. I have a problem with this because even David prayed for God to “renew a right spirit within me”. If he had need of a renewed, right spirit, then his spirit was not well and pleasing to God, which contradicts what the author was saying. This said, the concepts that she was teaching are valid, as long as you don’t equate the good with the spirit or bad with the soul.
  
  There were also some hints that we can expect God to speak to us outside of His word. She mentions a time that God spoke to her mother. While I had had times I felt that God has spoken to me to draw me to Himself in salvation, it is vital that we listen to the things He has already spoken in His Word and let that be the guide for our lives. The Bible is complete; there is no need for God to add to what He has said.
  
  In “A Brand-New Brain”, she says “We have the miraculous ability to receive the wisdom of the ages.” and “We can have God-sized dreams and divine creativity in our pea-sized brains!” This sounds very New Agey to me, and I caution the reader to not interpret that to mean that we can understand mysteries that are not explained in Scripture or to think that we can be “like God” (think Garden of Eden). He has promised us wisdom if we ask, and has promised us the “mind of Christ”, but not extra-Biblical revelation.
  
  As with everything you read or Christian speakers that you listen to, be sure that you go into them with your Bible right there, and if something is being taught that is a new concept to you, check and make sure that is what the Bible is saying. Read the verses before and after those presented to see it in context. Don’t assume that if the author is a Christian, everything they share is consistent with the Bible’s teachings. Be the like Bereans in Acts 17 and search the Scriptures to see if these things be so!
  
  This review was originally posted on AmongTheReads.net
  
  You can watch Carole's guest video at AmongTheReads.net
  
  I would like to thank Celebrate Lit for giving me this item. This gift did not influence my opinion or review.