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What Can We Learn About the Meaning of Life from a Homicide Detective?Today's special guest is J. Warner Wallace, bestselling author of Cold Case Christianity and several other books, and one of America's leading cold case detectives. Jim's new book is The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life. and it's amazing. Order before May 7, 2024 and receive some great bonuses! J. Warner Wallace is a Dateline-featured homicide detective, popular national speaker, and best-selling author. Relying on over two decades of investigative experience, Wallace provides the tools needed to investigate the claims of Christianity and make a convincing case for the truth of the Christian worldview. (Official bio)From Jim's Website: CRIME STORIES, LIFE LESSONS, AND THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE!For decades, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another for months as he attempted to solve the case. In The Truth in

It's Mind Change Monday!We're continuing to learn a new way to pray and learn to use our minds to change our brains, and help us seek the abundance and peace Jesus promised us in John 10:10!Quantum physics gives us two principles of how constantly looking at a situation can keep it stuck in that state, and the same is true in our lives. Learning to shift our viewpoint, relax, and trust God's promises can help us change our minds and begin to move forward.Today, we take another look the ABIDE practice, take it one level deeper, and learn a self-brain surgery operation that will help us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in any area of our lives. Neuroscience and faith smash together hard in this one!Remember the ABIDE prayer/meditation practice:Level I (Hearing):ApproachBreatheInviteDependExperienceLevel II (Self-Brain Surgery Practice):AssessBelieveIncisionDeepenExpectSPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by click

Does Your Mind Exist Outside of Your Brain? Or Are "You" Really Just A Bunch of Neurons?Join me for a fascinating conversation with author and brain imaging scientist Dr. Sharon Dirckx to answer the question. It's a great talk that's full of awe, wonder, and hope!This was the last episode of season 9, re-releasing today to get you ready for a week of learning about the mind-brain problem and its surprising solution. This week is full of hope, meaning, and purpose!Book mentioned: Am I Just My Brain? by Sharon Dirckx, Ph.D. 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

Learning to Biopsy Our Thoughts is a Key to HealingBut sometimes, we biopsy those negative thoughts, and they turn out to be true. What then? Today’s dose of hope is learning what to do when your trauma, tragedy, or other massive thing has filled your head and heart with harmful thoughts, especially when the harmful thought is based on something true. Scripture: II Corinthians 10:5Leave 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

Is Multitasking Good For Us? Is it Even Possible?It's Frontal Lobe Friday, and today we're taking a look at the science behind multitasking, and some surprising facts that may just change your mind.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 re

Trauma, Tragedy, and Other Massive Things Impact Our Brains and Can Sink Our HopeHere's a one-hour talk with my friend Max Lucado about how we can re-engage our faith, get our brains unstuck, and find hope again.Full-length video available from Baker Book House here.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

When did Noah build the arc?Before it started raining.Look, storms happen in life. Hard times come, but when things get hard, strong people get busy. And when great opportunities come, we need to be ready. Let’s pick up the hammer and start building that ark. Because the rain is coming. Because something great is coming, and we need to be ready. Something hard is coming, and we need to get our feet on more solid ground, even if we have to build a boat to get there.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 he

We plan for almost everything, but most of us do not have a plan for what to do when life gets hard.Today, I'll give you some tools to put on your emotional crash cart to use when you face trauma, tragedy, or any massive thing.Scripture: Psalm 19Book mentioned: Never Split the Difference by Chris VossMusic by Tommy Walker(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!Other Helpful Links:Click here to access the Hope Is the F

Tara-Leigh Cobble Changed Her Mind About GodIt's Mind-Change Monday, and today's guest is the host of The Bible Recap Podcast. Tara-Leigh Cobble helps millions of people read, understand, and love the Word of God every day. But before she could do that, she had to change her mind. This is a perfect conversation for self-brain surgeons, because you can't change your life until you change your mind, and learning to love God's word is the first step to getting that done.Check out The Bible Recap website!Tara-Leigh is also a sought-after public speaker and teacher. She also founded D-Group International, which exists to help people READ, UNDERSTAND, and LOVE the Bible, as they encounter God in a way that transforms their entire lives. Follow Tara-Leigh on Instagram to learn more!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 podcas

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!Today, a reminder that gratitude overwhelms overwhelm. Check out this incredible post from Ann Voskamp!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) -

It's Frontal Lobe Friday!Today, a quick thought on the difference between viewing the world from the left side of your brain versus the right, and the better path of integrating the two. 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 episod

It's Theology Thursday!Today, a mind transplant we can learn from the Old Testament prophet Habakkuk to help you change your mind and change your life. Learning to transplant THOUGH and YET for the thought cancers IF and WHEN, will help you have faith and joy no matter what you're going through. Part Two is six more things we can learn from Habakkuk, and it is available now on The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast. 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

Here's a Brand-New Self-Brain Surgery Operation for You: The Mind Transplant!For Wildcard Wednesday, our most ambitious operation yet: we're going to change our minds, literally!Scripture: Psalm 37:4, Philippians 4, I Corinthians 2:16, II Corinthians 10:5, Isaiah 30:15Leave 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 n

What do you do when God seems far away? How do we learn to hear God? How do we pray when life hurts?These are BIG questions! It's Mind Change Monday, and today's guest is Pete Greig.  Pete's official bio and links:Pete Greig is the Senior Pastor of Emmaus Rd church, and the bewildered founder of 24-7 Prayer, an international, inter-denominational movement of prayer, mission and justice operating in more than 100 countries. Pete’s books, which are available in various languages and formats, have won the following awards: + ‘Dirty Glory’ - UK Christian Book of the year + ‘How to Pray’ - short-listed for the ECPA Christian Book of the Year® Award, 2021 + ‘How to Hear God’ - Best Christian Life Book, 2022, Winner, Resources of the Year, 2023 in the Spiritual Growth category. + ‘God on Mute’ has been described as ‘a Christian classic’ by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Pete’s free, online resources include The Prayer Course - downloaded more than three million times, The Lectio Course, and Lectio365 - a daily devoti

It's Self-Brain Surgery Saturday!We're all taught in school that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution explains how we got here. But the truth is, modern molecular biology continues to struggle to prove even the most basic elements of that idea. Survival of the fittest is an obvious truth, but survival does not explain arrival, and since Watson and Crick gave us the molecular structure of DNA in the 1950's, the picture has become more and more bleak for the Darwinists.My guest today is Dr. Michael Behe. He is a biochemist from Lehigh University, and his incredible book is Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution.  From Amazon.com:Naming Darwin's Black Box to the National Review's list of the 100 most important nonfiction works of the 20th century, George Gilder wrote that it "overthrows Darwin at the end of the 20th century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning".Discussing the book in the New Yorker in May 2005, H. Allen Orr said of Behe, "He is the most promin

It's Frontal Lobe Friday!Today, our last look at perception and perspective, a new way to look at suffering, and learning how to separate circumstance from happiness. 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

It's Theology Thursday!Today, I'll give you a tool to help you document your self-brain surgery progress every day, which will help you become healthier, feel better, and be happier in your life!SOAP stands for subjective, objective, assessment, and plan. Scripture: Romans 12:3, I Peter 5:7Leave 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/

It's Wildcard Wednesday!Today, a look at the quantum physics principle that what we observe becomes the inevitable reality of the observed thing. This idea will help you understand how trauma and tragedy (or any massive thing) can become either A THING in your life, or THE defining issue of your whole life. Choose wisely.Scripture: Isaiah 43, Hebrews 12Leave 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

The Opposite of Depression Is Not Just Feeling Better, It's Leaning to Live BetterDr. David Carreon is a psychiatrist and expert on helping people with depression learn not just to feel better, but to actually learn to live fulfilling lives. And what he's learned will help all of us become healthier, feel better, and be happier in our lives.Even if you're not depressed, many people are simply worn out and weary. Dr. Carreon's work will offer hope for weariness and those who long to live a life of flourishing as well. This conversation covers a lot of ground- clinical psychiatry, the perils of depression and weariness, the role of medications, the devastation and risk factors for suicide, faith, the importance of community, and much more. Dr. Carreon's Book: The Opposite of Depression: What My Work with Suicidal Patients Has Taught Me about Life, Hope, and How to Flourish by David Carreon, MDLearn more about Dr. Carreon and his work with transcranial magnetic stimulation here. Book Preview from Tyndale.comTher

It's Mind Change Monday!Here's a look at what scripture and neuroscience (and some old quantum physicists) have to say about how changing your perspective can get you unstuck and help you solve problems when you feel stuck. (From Season 9, getting you ready for a week of perspective shifts!)See transcript for scripture references.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'