Jesus Habit

It's literally an epic story, and for good reason...Lord of the Rings can teach us a lot about life and how to change. What we'll talk about today is how the hero and protagonist of the story usually has some pretty big blindspots that keep them from succeeding early in the story. A part of fixing this problem is the scientific method, and it's also keystone habits. Listen in to learn how Frodo, Samwise and Gandalf can help you make changes to your life! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. Our internal monologue is constantly reinforcing what we already believe to be true about ourselves, even it if's not true. In this episode I give you some really practical techniques you can use to help your mind believe the story about you that is actually true. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We've covered a lot of material and you may be wondering, when will we ever begin? The answer is now! As with most stories, there is a lot of groundwork that has to take place before the inciting incident. But, since we have kicked things off with the moment we created in the last episode, now is when the journey begins. Just like any journey, it feels like we don't know what we're doing. That's okay. We'll figure it out along the way. The point is, let's begin. We'll also talk about what we specifically need to do to CAPTURE the future we have always dreamed of for ourselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Every story has one. Without one, there's nothing to interrupt normal life and send the protagonist on a journey. The same is true for us on any transformative journey. If we want to change, we have to have an inciting incident, a point of no return. It's a moment where we must decide if we are going to keep with the status quo or if we are going leave our old life behind to pursue a new one. In this episode we talk about creating that moment and who we have to create it with. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

This is perhaps the most overlooked critical component of changing anything in your life. For example: 99% of people who want to lose weight know how to lose weight: eat less, exercise more. Maybe 50% of people who want to lose weight go as far as finding the right people, (A guide, a sidekick and a squad) to help them on their journey. But a very small percentage, maybe less than 10% actually go so far as to change their environment. But, this storyworld that we live in is a part of the system that is giving us the results we are frustrated with. If we don't change the storyworld, we won't be successful in changing ourselves. But those few, the 10% or less who get all three working in their favor, well, they are the one who succeed in lasting transformation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We've talked briefly about how the people we surround ourselves with have an impact on our ability to change. Today, we get a little deeper into the people that are going to help us on the journey to transformation, and we're going to take a look at the people who might try to derail our journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We aren't just living a story, we are telling ourselves a story about ourselves. We probably have a villain and likely have positioned ourselves as a victim in some way. This story we have been telling ourselves has led us to this point in our lives. If we want to be someone different than we are right now, we have to start telling ourselves a new story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In this episode, we're going to talk about that one thing you absolutely must do if you want to change. Without this, you may as well never even begin the process because you're just going to get frustrated when you fail. So, what is this one thing? Listen in to find out! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we continue through our discussion of the science behind transformation, we talk about the effect our self talk has on our ability to change as well as the underlying beliefs that drive that talk. We may be sabotaging ourselves without even knowing it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Do you know those older people who can't remember anything, but if you start singing a hymn, they can sing right along with you? How does that happen? People say habits form in 20 days and 40 days, but is that really how long it takes? Or is there more to it than that? And isn't following Jesus supposed to be more "organic" than that? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Last week we talked about the 3 core components of discipleship or any kind of transformation, content, context & community. Today we are going to look at the formula for transformation. You might be asking, "Formula? You think there's a formula for transformation?" Yes, I actually do. And I'm going to share it with you today for free. Yes for free! Just giving it away. This is years and years of research combined into one simple, easy to remember formula and I'm just giving it to you for free. Crazy, I know. But, hey, I'm more interested in helping you change than I am in money so, here you go! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In this week's episode of The Jesus Habit Podcast, we are going to start getting into the science of transformation. What are the core components necessary to become like Christ? Is it simply about knowing enough of the right information or is there more than that? I invite you to listen to discover what might be missing from your transformation journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

A lot of people are asking "When is this going to be over?" "When are things going to go back to normal?" "What do we do when things are so uncertain?" That's exactly what we wrestle with today. For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We are all going to give our lives for something. What is it going to be for? For a full transcript of today's podcast, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We've talked a lot about what love is and what it means to become love. We've talked a lot about the what and who, but why? For a full transcript of today's podcast, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

If I have faith in a bridge, but I never walk across the bridge, do I have faith in it? At what point do I have faith? For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We are surrounded by a corrosive culture. How do we become love when we're surrounded by something that is quite the opposite? For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

The draw of the world is strong. It's appealing and even looks like light. But, do we know what we're being drawn to? For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we wrap up our study of 1 John 4:16-18, we talk about the way we can see that the seed of God's love has come to life in us. For a full transcript of today's podcast, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

We typically think of fear as a bad thing, but is it? God made us with it, so it must be there for a reason. What does fear have to do with our relationship with God? For a full transcript of today's devotional, go ahead and head on over to thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Do you have a hard time remember names? What's in a name anyway? And what's love got to do with it? For a full transcript of today's podcast, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we are trying to get to the bottom of what this popular verse means. What does it mean for us in the world right now as we are dealing with incredibly high levels of fear? For a full transcript of today's podcast, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we're going through this Coronavirus crisis, we're dealing with quite a few inconveniences. What's love got to do with that? For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we wrap up this week looking at abiding love, we have to look at one more, ongoing aspect of abiding. For a full transcript of today's devotional visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

What's the difference between the principle of love and the virtue of love? Is it just semantics? Check out today's episode to find out more. For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we're going to deal with a challenging word: perfection. We're also going to look at utopia and our longing for Eden. And we talk about love. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit, thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Most of the time we tend to think of love from the standpoint of what we get out of it. But that's not God's design for love. Love is a flow. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we wrap up this second week in our light pollution series, we take a look at what it really means to become love. What is the cross we Christians are supposed to carry? Listen today to find out. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we start to turn a corner from focusing on the problems that keep us from becoming love to starting to look at the pathway we must walk if we hope to become it. A full transcript of today's podcast is available at thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In today's episode of the podcast we take a look at the love of the world. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we take a look the way the world plays to the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes and the pride of life to keep us from denying ourselves. A full transcript of today's devotional is available at thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In today's episode we look at how our hearts have a tendency to deceive us and lead us in ways that aren't very loving. If we're going to become love, we have to be led by the right heart. For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

The two greatest influences in our lives are people and stories. This is by God's design, but that doesn't mean God's design hasn't been hacked by a secular society that is opposed to God and is using those tools to use us and shape us for their own benefit. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil, but we keep putting back on our Edgar Suits. Lent is the perfect time to start denying ourselves so that the true life of Christ can rise up within us. For a full transcript of today's devotional visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we officially start our Lent series on Becoming Love. As we begin on Ash Wednesday, we take a look a something that has to die in us so God's love can come to life. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Most Christians would say they don't worship idols. But is that really true? Today, as we start taking a look at those lights that are blocking our view of God, we see there may be more to them than simple distractions. For a full transcript of today's podcast visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we are taking a turn away from our "Questions" series based on the book "Reason for God" by Timothy Keller. We will be publishing a dialogue on the rest of the topics each Wednesday in the 6:8 Church podcast. Today though, we start a new series called Light Pollution. Listen in! For a full transcript of today's devotional, head on over to thejesushabit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In the last episode of this week's devotional, we take a look at an odd passage where Jesus talks about the way he's going to separate at the end of time. For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today as we continue our discussion about Hell we take a different look at Rebellion, God's Goodness and the choices we make. For a full transcript of today's devotional, please visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today, we are going to take a simple look at how our perception of Hell changes when we have a better understanding of the Character of God. For a full transcript of today's devotional visit thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

A lot of people have made judgements about God because of secondhand information. We listen to what other people say about God and agree with them without letting God speak for Himself. In today's episode, we take a brief look at some of the attributes of God to see how they help us understand some of the difficult topics of the Bible like Hell. For a full transcript of today's episode, go to thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today, as we continue to wrestle with the question of Hell, we take a look at the fact that God is good and it is impossible for Him to be anything other than good. For a full transcript of today's devotional, head over to thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In today's episode, we take a look at whether we are fanatics for the gospel or of some other lesser cause. For a full transcript of today's devotional, go to http://thejesushabit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

In today's episode of the podcast, we take a look at the glasses we use to look at ourselves, others and the church. For a full transcript of today's episode, go to http://thejesushabit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we are going to be wrestling with the topic of Christian consumerism and the effect that is having on the reputation of the church at large. For a full transcript of today's devotional, visit thejesushabit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Today we take a look at the division in the church and the effect that has on the view of Christ for those outside the church. For a full transcript of the devotional, go to thejesushabit.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we consider the topic of harm that has been done in the name of Christ, we turn the question on ourselves and ask how well do we represent Jesus? For a full transcript of today's episode, visit thejesushabit.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

As we wrap up our series on absolute truth, we look at the importance of the whole counsel of scripture. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

After wrestling with the flawed concept of "My Truth" yesterday, today we start to get our footing on "THE truth." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message

Is there such a thing as "My Truth"? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejesushabit/message