{"product_id":"think-again-relief-from-the-burden-of-introspection","title":"Think Again: Relief from the Burden of Introspection","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvaluating yourself being mindful of who you are and what you are doing is necessary and can lead to positive change. But what about the dark side of introspection? Do you ever feel weighed down and exhausted by your own self-analysis? Perhaps you made a mistake, said a careless word, or even messed up big time. Your self-examination spirals into a full-blown cross-examination. You keep revisiting what happened. Your mind circles around the event, fruitlessly trying to somehow make the outcome different so you don't feel the embarrassment, shame, and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe modern self-esteem movement has left us empty and self-focused. We exhaust our healthy introspection and pervert it into constant self-evaluation, wrong views of ourselves, self-accusation, and false guilt. Introspection was never meant to bear such weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThink Again offers real relief from the burden of introspection that so many of us carry each day. Pastor Jared Mellinger, who tends to overdose on self-analysis himself, shows us how the hope of the gospel can rescue us from the bad fruit of unsound introspection. Mellinger's short, story-filled chapters help readers identify and turn away from unhealthy introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is an outward-focused God who delights to rescue an inward-focused people and lead them into a better way to live. When we truly understand it, we'll see that the gospel actually sets us free from thinking about ourselves too much.We can seek after and pray for the peace and joy the sanity that comes from thinking about ourselves less often. Think Again includes practical instructions for self-examination, fighting false guilt, breaking free from hyper-introspection, and more. Ultimately, Think Again demonstrates that the solution to thinking too much about ourselves is to look to Christ, and it gives readers the tools to begin to turn from the mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: New Growth Press\u003cbr\u003eType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781942572565\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJared Mellinger is the senior pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, PA, where he lives with his wife, Meghan, and their six children. He is the author of Think Again: Relief from the Burden of Introspection and A Bright Tomorrow: How to Face the Future without Fear.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Martin Luther believed man's problem is that he is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eincurvatus in se\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eturned in on himself. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThink Again\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJared Mellinger tackles one devastating effect of this in an astute, pastorally sensitive, and deeply searching but healing way. Here is analysis, diagnosis and remedy all in one. Plus it's readable. The best books work on us while we are reading them and help effect the very transformation they describe. This is one of them.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSinclair Ferguson,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Christian Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevoted to God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jared Mellinger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45878523035840,"sku":"9781942572565","price":12.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/0371\/1424\/files\/Think-Again-Frontcover__32718.jpg?v=1734944960","url":"https:\/\/www.shalomchristianmedia.com\/products\/think-again-relief-from-the-burden-of-introspection","provider":"ShalomChristianMedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}