Moreland encourages and challenges Evangelicals to academic study and presents its benefits for the life of the Christian. Along the way, he gives an introduction to logic (esp. fallacies and rules of inference), a bit of epistemology, and a reformative manifesto for Christian churches to revitalize the life of the mind in their congregations and facilitate spiritual development. He refutes scientism, skepticism, and moral relativism, recounting several conversations that he had with their proponents and their outcomes.

Below are some major points:
1. Sermons should include a detailed handout that challenges the minds of congregants and leads to further study and reflection, instead of a brief sermon outline.
2. Churches should pray for and support graduate students and professors and recognize the work that they are doing for the kingdom of God. (He even suggested that lists of them should be published and that the congregation should pray over them.)
3. Churches should financially support Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, which are "grossly underfunded" and costly, often leading students to work to make ends meet. With scholarships, Christian college and graduate students will have more time to research and write better academic papers and advance into positions in higher learning.
4. There should be no senior pastor in charge of a whole church; churches should be run by a plurality of elders, as modeled in the New Testament. This is also to prevent centralizing ministry around one pastor rather than spreading it across the congregation.
5. No one person should preach more than 26 Sundays a year, because when the same person preaches all the time, the congregation tends to take on his strengths and weaknesses.