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Chapter 9 – What Is Gratitude?
Picture a family around a Thanksgiving table, taking turns expressing gratitude. “I’m thankful for my family.” “I’m thankful for my health.” “I’m thankful for my home.” Those are incomplete sentences. “Thankful for” is meaningless without “thankful to.”
Chapter 8 What the Bible Says about Self-Talk
Never talk to yourself about your troubles. Talk to God about your troubles and talk to yourself about God.
The Benefits of Suffering – 23 Reasons to Count It all Joy
Everything God does, He does for a reason—an infinitely good reason. He does not waste His time and He does nothing arbitrarily. God only does good things (Dt.32:4). Oh, what a blessing it is to know that absolutely everything that ever happens to us—down to the smallest detail—is a purposeful, intentional, loving, wise, beneficial step in a grand, glorious design! Every moment of every day you are experiencing the unfolding of the great drama of God’s perfect providential plan.
Chapter 7 Spiritual Executive Function
Left to themselves, anxious feelings and thoughts will rage out of control. But God has given us a secret weapon to reign them in. Spiritual executive function. Executive Function In chapter five we discussed the executive function of the brain, which has power to...
Chapter 6 Train Your Emotions
Your body will “believe” something is real when it experiences that thing—whether in reality or through imagination. To help yourself really believe truths you’re finding hard to believe, activate your emotional brain with biblical imagination. Imagine vivid scenes in which the truth you want to believe plays out dramatically.
Chapter 5 Brain Chemistry & the Human Soul: How to Rewire Your Brain
Ridding yourself of physical and mental symptoms while leaving spiritual causes untouched is like mopping up water without fixing the leaky pipe.