2009-09-11T08:38:56-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/sound+mind/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201:7&version=NIV 2009-09-11T08:38:56-05:00 A spirit of self-discipline--sometimes translated as "a sound mind"--is one of the characteristics of Christ-followers. Nobody who has experienced God's grace need be timid or afraid with God at their side. http://sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20276&forum=34&2 2008-01-01T11:35:04-05:00 Our errand being one of grace, the Lord will hear us when we ask his presence in it. Now, his Spirit is not "the spirit of fear :" it is the "spirit of love, and of power, and of a sound mind" (2 Tim. 1:7).