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Think Again: Relief from the Burden of Introspection Kindle Edition
Evaluating 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.
The 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.
Think 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. There 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 Jesus Christ, and it gives readers the tools to begin to turn from the mirror.

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"Martin Luther believed man's problem is that he is incurvatus in se-turned in on himself. In Think Again Jared 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."
-- Sinclair Ferguson, Author of The Christian Life and Devoted to God
"Think Again is a great little book. It navigates us through the maze of introspection in a biblical, practical, straight-forward manner. Read it for yourself; give it to a friend-for it shows how Christ can set us free from our own thoughts. I believe that for many people this will be a truly liberating book."
-- Tim Chester, Faculty member of Crosslands; author of over thirty books, including You Can Change
"Think Again is a surprisingly delightful book. Surprising in that such a short book can accomplish such depth in searching the reader's heart, delightful in its flow, humor and encouragement. Jared, quite skillfully, delivers a very helpful resource for the very needed work of introspection. With great wisdom and the tender care of a pastor, Jared shepherds the reader to best see themselves only in view of Christ."
-- Brian Davis, Pastor of Risen Christ Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA
"Jared Mellinger understands that unless we learn how to take every thought captive, we can easily become captive ourselves to thoughts that control our emotions and ultimately, our lives. Think Again will help you find freedom as you learn how to guard your heart as you renew your mind."
-- Bob Lepine, Cohost of FamilyLife Today
"You're introspective. Everyone is. But if you're honest, you're more than introspective; you're self-absorbed. You think about yourself a ridiculous amount. Everyone does. But there is escape from suffocating introspection and healing of the cataract of selfishness in your soul-eye. Let Jared Mellinger help you. He humbly and humorously speaks from experience. Discover, as Chesterton once said, ‘how much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.'"
-- Jon Bloom, Cofounder of Desiring God; author of Not By Sight and other books
"Jared Mellinger's book, Think Again, is simplyone of the clearest, biblically faithful, most winsome, solidly helpful, and briefest(!) books you'll ever read on the topic of introspection. Jared skillfully avoids the extremes of never thinking about ourselves and always thinking about ourselves, and points us to the only cure for our self-absorbed souls: being overwhelmed by the matchless beauty and glory of Christ. I can't wait to give this to others."
-- Bob Kauflin, Director of Sovereign Grace Music; elder at Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville; author of Worship Matters and True Worshipers
"In an age of narcissism, entitlement, and attention-seeking egos in search of self-esteem, we need more voices pointing us to a vision and story greater than self. For only when we lose ourselves do we find our truest, healthiest, and most life-giving selves in Jesus. Jared has written an excellent book to help us along in this journey."
-- Scott Sauls, Senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN; author of Jesus Outside the Lines and Befriend
A self-absorbed culture keeps telling us that the solution to our problems is somewhere inside of us. So we keep looking. I talk about me, then I ask you to talk about me. More mirrors, more lanterns, more navel-gazing. Trouble is, these things aren't leading us to freedom and rest, but to self-love or self-hatred. Jared offers us a way out of the vortex of introspection. Without obliterating the self, Think Again takes the reader up into worship and gratitude and out into the joy of service.
-- Matt Mason, Senior Pastor of The Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham, AL
"Introspection is a plague that cripples our souls and clouds the love of our Savior. Think Again addresses our daily temptation to focus our attention inward. Jared not only helps us discern this subtle tendency but also provides the liberating alternative in the Gospel. This book delivers grace."
-- C. J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville
"In this rich and thoughtful book, Jared Mellinger shows us that the solution to self-focus is God-intoxication. Think Again lifts the head of the introspective, the one lost in labyrinths of the self, and unveils the sure and certain hope of God. This God has not stayed silent; he has not kept to himself; he has not failed to provide a savior for sinners like us."
-- Owen Strachan, Author of Risky Gospel and The Colson Way; theology professor, Midwestern Seminary
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- ASIN : B0CW1MSZ26
- Publisher : New Growth Press (March 20, 2024)
- Publication date : March 20, 2024
- Language : English
- File size : 659 KB
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- Print length : 145 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,005,337 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,577 in Personal Growth & Christianity
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- #12,181 in Christian Personal Growth
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017This is a helpful book for those of us who tend to be more introspective, constantly thinking and overthinking and overanalyzing everything. While introspection is beneficial and necessary, especially for the Christian, when we don't put the proper controls on it, introspection can send us into an ever-downward spiral into our own thoughts, intentions, problems, and sins. The problem is that we dig a whole too deep to climb out of on our own. Jared Mellinger aims "to show how the gospel rescues us from fruitless self-examination, false guilt, discouragement, and inaccurate thoughts of ourselves" (1), and he does this quite well. In a searching, Puritan-like way, Mellinger uncovers the root issues to our unfettered introspection, but he also provides concrete ways for the self-focused to learn to focus on Christ and others. I commend this book to anyone, but especially to those who are ready to lift their eyes up from our their sinful condition to see Jesus, the only One who can rescue us from ourselves.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2022If you frequently find yourself think too much and/or too often about what others think of you, or how they’re perceiving you (positively or negatively) I’d encourage you to read this book. I gained insights that I believe will directly impact some of the deepest struggles of my life. Even if you don’t personally struggle with unhealthy introspection, I’m confident you know someone who does. And this book will help you to help them. Give it a read!
- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2023I like the way the author uses scripture to carry through a thought or concept. It is a book all should read!
- Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2018This book was very helpful to set my eyes on Jesus and the gospel I would recommend anyone who struggles with introspection to consider this book. For me I have read many books on assurance of salvation which never touched so much on this topic which left me more introspective and fearful if I was a Christian. This book was so helpful so encouraging definitely a book I will continue to read and go back to when I begin to doubt and become fearful because we are all prone to forget the greatest news which is that Christ died for sinners and this gospel frees us from looking inward to looking outward to Christ!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2017I, like many others, deal with the burden of unhealthy introspection in my life. Think Again: Relief From The Burden Of Introspection by Jared Mellinger seemed like it would be a great help. The back cover says:
"Evaluating 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. The 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. Think 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. There 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."
I loved that this book was broken up into short chapters that started off with a funny or honest story and then an exposition and application. It was easy to pick up and read one chapter in about 5 or 10 minutes and break the book down into bite size chunks. I have always dealt with the tendency to beat myself up over past mistakes, go over and over things I've done and said in the past, etc. I was very refreshed by this look at freedom from this burden. Jared's main thesis in this book is that we should spend more time looking at Christ and less time looking at ourselves. The true key to breaking free from unhealthy introspection is to focus on Christ so much that it drowns out our petty obsession and focus on self. I highly recommend this book to any Christian dealing with this issue.
I received a copy of this book from Litfuse in order to provide an honest and unbiased review. All opinions are my own.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2022It’s been such a helpful book that I’ve given out and referred back to many times.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2020Spoken from an introspective soul, Mellinger offers theological and practical counsel for the one whose brain seems to be eating itself. Fix your mind on Christ and a lot of hope and joy results.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2018Powerful book of deliverance from excessive self reflection and being self obsborbed that it hinders the needed process of self examination
Top reviews from other countries
- HelenaReviewed in Canada on November 7, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Calling it what it is
This book really helped clear the fog as to what excessive self reflection really is...self centredness, plain and simple..I can't believe I never made that connection before. God used this book to teach me a LOT! :)
- Melinda GowReviewed in Australia on February 13, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
A brilliant book - so practical, easy to read, helpful. Would highly recommend this.