Renewing Your Mind with R.C. Sproul Celebrates 20 Years On Air

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. R.C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries are celebrating two decades of Renewing Your Mind on the radio with a special week of programming October 6-10.

The first episode of the 20th anniversary week will include the very first message to be broadcast in October 1994, "The Otherness of God," from Dr. Sproul's landmark teaching series The Holiness of God. In that episode Dr. Sproul stated the purpose for the new radio venture: "What we're going to do on this program for the days to come is explore the theme that is not only vital to my life, but is central to the biblical revelation of the character of God and is absolutely crucial for every Christian's personal growth: to investigate, to reflect upon, to seek an understanding of what the Scriptures mean when they declare that God is holy."

"Twenty years later, the response to Renewing Your Mind has overwhelmed me and surprised me enormously," said Dr. Sproul. Renewing Your Mind is now heard on more than 300 terrestrial radio stations in the U.S. and internationally, but it is also downloaded or streamed millions of times every month from RenewingYourMind.org, on RefNet.fm (Reformation Network), via podcast, and on many other internet outlets.

The name Renewing Your Mind is taken from Romans 12:2a: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…" Dr. Sproul explains, "God gives us the revelation of sacred Scripture in order for us to have our minds changed so we begin to think like Jesus. Sanctification and spiritual growth is all about this. If you just have it in your mind and you don't have it in your heart, you don't have it. But you can't have it in your heart without first having it in your mind. We want to have a mind informed by the Word of God."

Lee Webb, host of Renewing Your Mind and vice president of broadcasting states, "I was thrilled to be in the studio with Dr. Sproul reminiscing about the last twenty years of radio ministry and looking ahead to the possibilities for Renewing Your Mind through new media."

Dr. Sproul's longtime friend and colleague, Dr. John MacArthur, host of Grace to You had this to say, "There is profound weight to Renewing Your Mind. And it does exactly what its title says it does. The truth alone renews your mind. No one does this better than R.C.. He comes to the mind with the weight of biblical truth; biblical propositions that lead to doctrinal conclusions that produce convictions that lead ultimately to affections. What a joy, what a profound incalculable blessing this program has been and we trust that God will use it for many more years to come."

Mr. Stu Epperson, chairman of the board of Salem Communications stated, "R.C. Sproul and Renewing Your Mind have caused thousands and thousands of people to take more seriously the Bible and the necessity of studying it in a very serious way rather than casually. He came along at just the right time and I truly regard him as God's gift to the church during this time."

Renewing Your Mind radio has been responsible for the biggest outreach expansion in Ligonier's history. "Over the past twenty years, stewarding this broadcast has been at the vanguard of our outreach," said Ligonier's president and chief operating officer, Chris Larson. "By God's sustaining grace, we are trying to reach as many people as possible with the message of the holiness of God, never losing our confidence in the power of the gospel, the power of God's Word, to change lives and to renew minds. We prayerfully look to God as our source of strength for providing many more broadcasts in the years to come."

About Ligonier Ministries
Ligonier Ministries (www.ligonier.org) is an international Christian discipleship organization established in 1971 to equip Christians to articulate what they believe, why they believe it, how to live it, and how to share it. The ministry is home to the Renewing Your Mind with R.C. Sproul radio program, broadcast internationally; Tabletalk Bible study and devotional magazine, read internationally; The Reformation Study Bible with R.C. Sproul as general editor; Reformation Trust Publishing, the publisher of new titles by Dr. Sproul and other contemporary authors and theologians; Reformation Network, 24-hour internet radio committed to the historic Christian faith; numerous teaching series; national and regional conferences; an extensive catalog with more than 8,000 unique Christian discipleship resources available online at Ligonier.org; Ligonier Connect, an online learning platform with thousands of students; and the Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies and Reformation Bible College, educational institutions focused on enflaming a robust knowledge of God in their students.

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