The Renewal of the Mind

About the Book

This volume is made up of twenty-four sermons. These sermons are not "essays" but are presented as they have been preached in pulpits-some of them evolving over a period of fifty years. They are "timeless" and " universal" in that these ideas have maintained a relevancy throughout the years of the author's life and have been received with appreciation in small country churches as well as in the world of academe. Here are found illustrations of various types of sermons. Some of them have an evangelistic bent, but there are topical sermons, doctrinal sermons, textural sermons, expository sermons, and book sermons, in this collection. In the first seven of thee sermons there is a progression of thought from God's grace in lifting one out of moral degradation to a life in which one is led by the Spirit of God. Using a phase from Paul, the author argues that this progress in the Christian life comes through " the renewal of the mind." Thus these sermons are designed to enable a person "to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

About the Author

Dr. Wayne C. Tyner, a native of Robeson County, North Carolina, is Professor Emeritus of Peace College where he served on the faculty for twenty-five years. At the time of his retirement he was Chairman of the Division of History, Religion, and Social Sciences, and for a number of years had held an endowed professorship-Alumnae Professor of History and Political Science. First listed in Outstanding Educators of America in 1971, in May of 1990 he received The McCormick Distinguished Teaching Award. He holds degrees from Campbell University, Carson-Newman College, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the University if North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he earned the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees in history and religion. His doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Theology of Timothy Dwight in Historical perspective," a part of which was published by the Connecticut Historical Society. He is also the author of a number if articles in the fields of history and religion.

Prior to his tenure at Peace College he served as pastor of churches in Robeson, Cumberland, Columbus, and Wake Counties in North Carolina, and for a time was on the faculty in the Religion Department of Campbell University. His interim pastorates have included churches from Boone to Southport in North Carolina (literally from the mountains to the sea). In 1998 he returned to his home county, and during the past seven years has served as interim pastor of , or supplied the pulpit in, thirty different churches -- including Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches. He resides with his wife Elizabeth in Lumberton, North Carolina, the county seat of his native county.