Life is more easily caught than taught, and we tend to catch life by imitating the culture around us. But we are not all identical. There are liberals and conservatives. There are theists and atheists. There are big-picture and detail perspectives. We live in a...
MAKE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS BRAIN THINK THE SAME THING AS YOUR CONSCIOUS BRAIN We used to think that the brain was poured in concrete at birth, and could not change in adulthood. That idea was turned on its head in the 1980s and 1990s when science made...
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ALTER YOUR BRAIN, FOR BETTER OR WORSE Years ago, I read the quote, “Every moment of every day, something in your soul is being fed and something is being starved.” It struck me as immediately and undeniably true. Even back then,...
THE MIND CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN TO DO WHAT THE MIND WANTS IT TO In her book, Switch on Your Brain, Dr. Caroline Leaf, a neuroscientist who is also a Christian, makes the case that your mind and your brain are two different things. Your brain...
TRUTH NEEDS TO BE REPEATED OFTEN ENOUGH THAT IT CHANGES US Neuroplasticity is the science of how the brain changes: Neuro = brain Plasticity = change It is an exciting new field of study that is showing science catching up to the Bible. We used to believe that the...
USE RESISTANCE TO BUILD STRENGTH I am concerned that if we don’t create a better way of power-feeding our souls with biblical truth, future generations of Christians may be swept out to sea by the rip-tide of modern culture. I have made the point in earlier blogs that...
TARGET YOUR SPECIFIC SPIRITUAL WEAKNESSES WITH SUPER-VERSES For the last two weeks we have been talking about power-feeding our souls by memorizing and meditating on MegaVerses. This week we want to talk about power-cleansing our souls by meditating on SuperVerses. MegaVerses are passages so important to a...
REPETITION IS THE KEY TO MENTAL OWNERSHIP Last week I challenged you to memorize and meditate on one MegaVerse a month for the next year. For many people, that strategy seems doable except for one thing: how do I memorize that much Scripture? Memorizing can be a...
MEGA-VERSES CAN BE USED WITH PRECISION AND POWER TO TURBOCHARGE YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH. We saw two weeks ago that every moment of every day, something in our soul is being fed and something is being starved. Through all the various media, through the workplace, through our...
JUST AS THERE ARE SOME FOODS THAT PACK EXTRAORDINARY NUTRITIONAL WALLOP, SO THERE ARE SOME BIBLE VERSES THAT PACK EXTRAORDINARY SPIRITUAL WALLOP. There are Verses The Bible makes majestic claims about itself. It claims to be the inspired word of God (2 Timothy 3:16). It claims to...