Blog Series: Renew Your Mind ~ Transform Your Life After having taken the last two weeks to look at my new book, 30 Days to Growing in Your Faith, we are now ready to resume our investigation of how we can become our own brain surgeon. We...
Winston Churchill is often regarded as the master of insults. You may be familiar with his famous exchange with Lady Astor after she said, “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee. Churchill replied “And if you were my wife, I would...
Truth can change you There is some truth so important that it changes you powerfully the first moment you hear it. For example, if Publishers Clearing House rang your doorbell and said, “Congratulations! You have just won $5,000 a week for the rest of your life,”...
Understanding the brain can guide and accelerate spiritual growth. There are over 100,000 miles of electrical wiring in the brain, and every time you think a thought, it travels along a path in that electrical wiring. If you think the same thought twice, it takes the...
In last week’s blog, when Shorty jumped off the roof of a barn with boards tied to his arms, and ended up lying on the ground in pain, he was brought face to face with the fact that what he had believed wasn’t true. He...
Have you ever wondered why God doesn't bless your life more than He does? Have you ever wondered why you pray for bad things to not happen but they happen anyway, and yet you get good things you didn't even pray for? Has life ever...
Last week, we asked the question, “Have you become everything you would like to be?” This week, we ask the follow-up question, “What would it take for you to become everything you would like to be?” Magic? Money? Good luck? Well, there's hope. It doesn't take any of...
What more would you like to be? Would you like to be a better spouse? A better parent? A better friend? Would you like to be more patient? More caring? More self-disciplined? Would you like to be more positive? More resilient? More encouraging? What would you like to be...
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...