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It's Theology Thursday! Today, another look at light, and some surprising lessons from Psalm 119, quantum physics, and 21st-century neuroscience. Check out this video from Tara-Leigh Cobble and The Bible Recap!Check out this article on the two kinds of light mentioned in Psalm 119!Check out this book (specifically chapter 4) to learn more about how light may be how God communicates with our minds!Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful,

Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024!Every week for Wildcard Wednesday, I'll give you one of my (and your) top-four favorite interviews for the first quarter of the year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. After next quarter is over, we'll pick a winner from Q2, and then you can choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between those two. At the end of the year, we'll let the two semi-finalist winners battle to become the inaugural Dr. Lee Warren Podcast Award winner! Let's listen to these amazing conversations and then honor our guests for sharing their stories and their wisdom with us. Follow me @drleewarren on Instagram to keep up with the tournament as the year progresses!Mattie Jackson Smith's World Was Shattered Just shy of her one-year anniversary with her husband Ben, a seemingly small accident left her widowed and wondering where God was. Her story is full of grief, pain, and loss, but lands on hope and a futur

It's Tuesdays with Tata! (This is a classic episode about being ready for whatever life brings. It's important for me today, as I'm dealing with a big work issue. Back with multiple new episodes later this week!) Today, a great talk about the importance of getting your mind ready for whatever comes along. Does life jump up and knock you out? Or do you have a plan in place for how you're going to use your mind to handle anything that happens? Tata takes us through I Peter and other scriptures to show us how to keep our minds ready! Key Scripture: I Peter 1:13 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day):

An Episode About Anxious Thoughts: It's Default Mode Monday! Today, some compelling research about the connection between the default mode network (DMN) and the Central Executive Network (CEN). We'll learn how thinking more about God trains your brain to ruminate less about past traumas and possible future troubles, and to connect with the present and others more effectively. This, my friend, is how you can become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life. Book Mentioned for Memorial Day: No Place to Hide by meLeave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! (This is a carefully-selected re-release of an episode that will get you ready for next week’s focus on the #1 secret to changing your mind and your life. Even if you’ve heard it before, please check it out and be ready for Mind-Change Monday!) Today, we learn a little operation that will help us escape the inner "Me Show" we all hear in our heads, stop worrying about the suffering of the past or potential problems in the future, and to capture our thoughts so we can be fully present in the now. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immu

Life Can Stress Us to the Point that We Forget It’s Not All Trauma(Classic Episode as I'm on a short sabbatical) Today for Frontal Lobe Friday, a reminder that you’re not always in a fight. If you’re so tired of being so tired, this will help. (Based on Season 8, Episode 45) Scripture: Jeremiah 6:16, Isaiah 43:19, I John 3:8, John 10:10 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the

If You Keep Trying, It Will Eventually Click For Theology Thursday today, we're going to talk about how to master your mind, overcome negative thinking, structurally improve your brain, and the process of overcoming shame and doubt. When it all clicks, you'll realize that you've become a master self-brain surgeon, but it didn't happen overnight. This episode is dedicated to my professor and friend, Dr. Takanori Fukushima (1942-2024). Guiding Principle: What you're doing you're getting better at (9th Commandment) ProblemGoalApproach TechniquePitfalls/RisksExpected Outcome (Consequences and rewards) Pros/Cons/Alternatives Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3, 2 Corinthians 10:5, John 1:3, Philippians 2:13, Romans 8:1, I Corinthians 2:16, II Corinthians 9:10 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid part

It's Wildcard Wednesday!(Still on sabbatical, so here's a classic episode for you, originally a Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation!) Every week, we'll learn a specific neuroscience operation you can master to change your mind and change your life.  Today, we learn the basics, and we start with Self-brain surgery tip #19: “There is almost nothing outside you that will help in any kind of lasting way, unless you are waiting for a donor organ.” - Anne Lamott in her book Almost Everything Real help comes from within, from the Spirit inside us! See John 14:26-27 Learning how your brain works helps you see how to manage it in a healthier way.  Here's five self-brain surgery techniques to help you change your mind and change your life. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the

It’s Tuesdays with Tata! Since we've been talking about light lately, here's a classic Tuesdays with Tata episode in which we talk about a curious passage from Zechariah 8:20-23, and what it means to be the light of the world! Plus, a new Tata-ism, fiat lux (“Let there be light”)!  Scriptures: Zechariah 8:20-23, Matthew 5:13-16, John 1:1-5, Titus 2:10 Music: Tim Hughes (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique!

A Super Weird and Hopeful Episode About Light (Mind-Change Monday) Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!All recent episodes with transcripts are available here! (00:01) - Introduction to Mind Change Monday (02:45) - The Impact

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Here's a look at four approaches to using self-brain surgery to help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in our lives. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique! Other Helpful Links: Click here to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs! Be sure to check out my new book, Hope Is the First Dose! Here's a free 5-day Bible study on YouVersion/BibleApp based on my new book! Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!All recent episodes with

Here's a self-brain surgery operation you can learn to deal with anxiety in any situation. It's Frontal Lobe Friday! I have to operate today, so I'm giving you back this important Frontal Lobe Friday episode! Come back tomorrow for an all-new Self-Brain Surgery Saturday operation on how to deal with difficult situations. Today, we develop a strategy to handle anxiety, learn resilience, and become better equipped to face whatever comes along in life. Books Mentioned: Rest and War by Ben Stuart, Hope Is the First Dose by me, and Never Split the Difference by Chris VossArticle on the Greek word for anxiety by Abarim Publications Scriptures mentioned: Isaiah 30:18, Philippians 4 Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more cont

Self-Brain Surgery is a Fight to Become Healthier, Feel Better and Be Happier Here are some thoughts on how you can win. Our guiding principles: Words of my mouth AND the meditation of my heart: Psalm 19:14 Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind, strength: Mt 22:37 Every thought captive: II Cor 10:5 Operate out of renewed minds: Romans 12:2 Worship with our brains as part of body: Romans 12:1 means hurting brain is an act of anti-worship, using consecrated things for unholy purposes Attention affects reality Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Improve your gut health, immune syst

Our current society has a big worldview problem. Today for Wildcard Wednesday, We Talk About WorldviewToday, we talk about John Mark Comer’s book Live No Lies, and two ideas that he really helped me clarify: What was the biggest idealogical mindset shift in Western civilization in the past 200 years? What cultural credo did we pick up from Shakespeare, and why is it so ironic? Today’s Mind Change Monday episode gets into the philosophical underpinnings of modern Western thought, and two lies of the devil that have shaped so many people’s thoughts on happiness: Live your truth What makes you unhappy is anyone telling you what to do or not to do Improve your gut health, immune system, and protect your brain with Pique!Books mentioned: Live No Lies by John Mark Comer Faithfully Different by Natasha Crain Live Your Truth and Other Lies by Alisa Childers The Daniel Dilemma by Chris Hodges Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and

The American Family is Under Attack, and it is a Perilous Fight for the Soul of Our Nation and the Souls of our Children Join me for a chilling but hopeful conversation with world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, bestselling author, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson! Dr. Carson's new book is The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture's War on the American Family Dr. Carson's American Cornerstone Institute is doing great work. You can join more than 341,000 subscribers and receive updates and educational content from Dr. Ben Carson and the American Cornerstone Institute by signing up for his free newsletter by clicking here. More information about Dr. Carson's important new book below. From Amazon.com:Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.Does America no longer feel like home? Widesprea

It's Mind Change Monday! An overview of what self-brain surgery can do for you, and some tools to help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life. Scripture: Ephesians 4 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below! Spiritual Brain Surgery on AppleSpiritual Brain Surgery on SpotifySpiritual Brain Surgery on Amazon Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways You Can Support this show: Pray for us! Subscribe, like, and share it with your friends! (We even have a YouTube channel!) Leave reviews and comments wherever you listen to podcasts! You can become a paid partner of the podcast and get special bonus episodes and lots more content by clicking here.  Visit one of our affiliate partners and consider using their products (we use them every day): Support and boost your immune system with Armra! Use DRLEEWARREN code at checkout for a discount! Improve your g

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday! Sometimes the wound is so fresh or so persistent that you don't have the energy or mental capability to even try to change your mind. You're overwhelmed and it's all just too fresh and heavy, and it doesn't feel possible to do anything but hurt. If you're there, it's okay. Here's one little tool that will help you hold on until you heal enough to start seeing the light again, and the hope that is found in patience and waiting. Here's what to do when you don't know what to do. Remember the ABIDE prayer/meditation practice:Level I (Hearing):ApproachBreatheInviteDependExperience Level II (Self-Brain Surgery Practice):AssessBelieveIncisionDeepenExpect Scripture: Psalm 34:18 Music by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Don't forget: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below! Spiritual Brain Surge

The Things We Think About Turn Into Real Things Today, a look at the 10th commandment of Self-Brain Surgery: I must understand that thoughts become things. Scripture: Philippians 4:6-9, II Corinthians 10:5 The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain. I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue. I must believe that my brain is designed to heal (Ryker’s Regular Legs) I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now. (No Tomorrow Tax! Corollary: I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.) I must stop making an operation out of everything. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to protect and improve it. I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at. I must understand that thoughts become things. Leave a voicemail with your question o

What You're Doing, You're Getting Better AtToday, a look at the 9th commandment of Self-Brain Surgery: I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at. Scripture: Psalm 19:14, Matthew 22:37, Psalm 51:17, II Corinthians 10:5 The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery I must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain. I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue. I must believe that my brain is designed to heal (Ryker’s Regular Legs) I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now. (No Tomorrow Tax! Corollary: I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.) I must stop making an operation out of everything. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to protect and improve it. I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at. I must understand that thoughts become things. Leave a voi

Your Brain is the Most Important Organ in Your BodyToday, a look at the 8th commandment of Self-Brain Surgery: I must love my brain and live in such a way as to protect and improve it. The Ten Commandments of Self-Brain SurgeryI must relentlessly refuse to participate in my own demise. I must believe that feelings are not facts, they are chemical events in my brain. I must believe that most of my thoughts are untrue. I must believe that my brain is designed to heal (Ryker’s Regular Legs) I must love tomorrow more than I hate how I feel right now. (No Tomorrow Tax! Corollary: I must not treat bad feelings with bad operations.) I must stop making an operation out of everything. I must not perpetuate generational thought or behavioral issues in my family or start any new ones. I must love my brain and live in such a way as to protect and improve it. I must believe that what I’m doing I’m getting better at. I must understand that thoughts become things. Leave a voicemail with your question or comment! Five Ways Y