In the United States this week, we will celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday set aside to give thanks to God for His blessings on us as a nation. Its origin was a "First Thanksgiving" celebrated by 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans in October 1621. It...
The story is told of an experiment that was done with the Mercury astronauts to probe the limits of the human body. They fitted some astronauts with a pair of goggles with multiple lenses that, when you put them on and looked through them, turned...
We're doing something a bit differently on this week's blog. This past Sunday, I preached a sermon at our church in which I melded content from several recent blogs. I am including a link to the sermon as this week’s blog post, for three reasons. First, because...
Christians are in the middle of hard times right now. Taken in full context, it’s like nothing the world has ever seen. We’re in a hard time globally, we're in a hard time nationally, and many of us may be in a hard time individually. And,...
Last week, we finished a blog series on “Renewing Your Mind ~ Transforming Your Life.” The information in that series has been a game-changer for me. I started looking into this subject back in 2008, and have been studying and applying these principles ever since. My...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life Last week we looked at a 12 Point Summary of the Principles of Mental Renewal. This week, I want to put everything together on a practical level so that it will be easier to create a personal...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life We have covered a lot of information in this extended blog series over the last nearly ten months! Now what? Now that we know that the brain can change, and the brain does change, always in the...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life In this blog series, as we have listed a long succession of beneficial principles we have learned about the Christian life from modern neuroscience, we now ask the question, “How can we use what we've learned from...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life The brain does not distinguish between a real and a vividly imagined event. That is why athletes and musicians rehearse over and over again in their minds what they want to do with their bodies. I once read...
Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life Modern neuroscience is powerfully reinforcing what the Bible says about our mind. The Bible teaches us how to steward our minds, and neuroscience is coming along and telling us why. Neurological literature has coined the term “self-directed...