004 John and Sungshim dialogue about breath prayer as God's Big Yes to you!
The things we learned teaching breath prayer at Montrose Church.
Pray in the Spirit on all occasions [Eph 6:18]

Pray continually or pray without ceasing [1 These 5:17]

Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, [Phil 4:6]

The Big Brain Question from Mark Brady.
Brother Lawrence - The Practice of the Presence of God
The Way of the Pilgrim
Prayer - Richard Foster
“Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is triumphant. It is radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time. And it makes our life programs new and overcoming.” - Thomas Kelly
BLESSING

God bless you

May we become the kind of people who experiences

The God
who sees us

who hears us

and knows the depth of what we experience

so that we know that He is with us

and He is doing something about this

by strengthening our spirits.

May we become the people of love.

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Jim Wilder is our friend and mentor and one of the people we've learned a tremendous amount from over the years. This book is life altering. I encourage you to pick it up today.
Jim and John sharing in conversation about his new book. We had a lot of fun talking, sharing and discussing the ideas.

Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms

• Jim's hope and dreams for the book
• Why loving our enemies is the litmus test for our apprenticeship to Jesus
• What is enemy mode?
• What does it mean to have God speak to us? And, what it doesn't mean.

The book proposes that

1) Salvation is about attachment and uses the human attachment system to grow a new identity

2) We can experience mutual mind with God

3) Mutual mind without attachment will not change character

This conversation will also be released on our YouTube channel.
I'm hoping someone would want to list the topics and time stamps we discuss them on Youtube. If you are interested please let me know.
He is the neurotheologian of Life Model Works.
Dr. Jim Wilder (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, and M.A. Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary) has been training leaders and counselors for over 27 years on five continents. He is the author of multiple books with a strong focus on maturing and relationship skills for leaders. His coauthored book Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You has sold over 100,000 copies and is printed in eleven languages. Wilder has published numerous articles and developed four sets of video and relational leadership training called THRIVE. He is the founder and chief neurotheologian of Life Model Work, a nonprofit working at the intersection of brain science and theology that is building contagiously healthy Christian communities through equipping existing networks with the skills to thrive. Dr. Wilder has extensive counseling experience and has served as a guest lecturer at Fuller Seminary, Biola, Talbot Seminary, Point Loma University, Montreat College, Tyndale Seminary and elsewhere.
BIBLE APP with writing from Jim Wilder
I'm reading the @YouVersion plan '12 Ways God Loves You: Practices That Form Strong Attachments To God And God’s People'. Check it out here:
http://bible.com/r/52k
VIDEO
Jim introduces Dallas from the conference (story told in the book)
https://lifemodelworks.org/renovated/...
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012 John invites Pastor Dave Roberts into a dialogue about the ideas in his new book HEALING CONVERSATIONS
Join Dave & John as they dialogue about how we can participate in creating a place for healing conversations to take place.
Pastor Dave Roberts shares about his new book HEALING CONVERSATIONS.
Dave Roberts is the lead Pastor for the Montrose Church which has made great waves in global communities with recent partnerships in Bolivia, Mexico and a current partnership in Eswatini, Africa. He earned his Master of Divinity at Nazarene Theological Seminary and began serving the Los Angeles Community in 1988. For over 30 years, he has been a practitioner of relationships, community building, and long-term partnerships. With a front row seat to the very real struggles faced by couples, families, and people, Dave has seen how the power of real authentic conversation transforms loneliness and divisiveness into genuine affection and connection. He brings years of practical help and support to people who long to connect spiritually, emotionally, intellectually, and relationally. Dave currently resides in Glendale, California.
FROM AMAZON
Healing Conversations brings to life the seven elements of how to have deep and fulfilling conversations so that people can connect in a world with many conversational obstacles.
Conversation is the way human beings connect. Great friendships are defined by the way one speaks, listens, and flows through the joy of effortless conversation. As the divisions in culture deepen due to politics, generational misunderstanding, the complexity of gender, the struggle to be politically correct, and every other possible human condition, conversation is becoming more and more dangerous. Most people feel an ever-increasing need to be careful with their words. It may be good to be thoughtful of language, but this is a new kind of carefulness. The anxiety of culture is leading people to communicate less and that leads to isolation and divisiveness.
Healing Conversations is a simple way to revolutionize communication. It offers practical help to allow readers to talk their way out of conflict and loneliness. Within Healing Conversations, Dave Roberts helps readers to learn, gain perspective, grow, accomplish real work, come together for a greater good, but even more, helps them to feel intimately connected to the people around them again through the power of conversation.
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011 - You are going really like this conversation. Chock full of hope.

On March 6, 2020 I had a Zoom conversation with Dr. Benjamin Hardy. I wanted to support Dr. Hardy in getting the word out about the ideas in his book Personality Isn’t Permanent

Take a listen as we had a meaningful, fun conversation. I feel like Ben is my brother. Check it out for yourself.

Psychologist and bestselling author Benjamin Hardy, PhD, debunks the pervasive myths about personality that prevent us from learning—and provides bold strategies for personal transformation

In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead. He offers practical, science-based advice to for personal-reinvention. [From Amazon’s description]

Medium Blog where I discovered Benjamin Hardy

https://medium.com/@benjaminhardy

Personality Isn’t Permanent - https://benjaminhardy.com/

Gaping Void - Career Hierarchy

Foster All

https://www.fosterall.org/

Sungshim and I attended a Gala to raise awareness and money for Foster All. Thanks to Anne Bierling

The Body Keeps The Score - Basel ven der Kolk

Trauma keeps a personality frozen.

Trauma shatters imagination.

Gabor Mate

Personality is a way to cope with trauma.

SOME NOTES from the episode

Hope Theory - You can’t have hope without a different or better future.

Expectancy theory - You can’t have motivation without a clear goal and path to get there.

Imagination is the key to learning.

You can’t learn without imagination.

“Mental flexibility is the basis of imagination” - Basel ven der Kolk

“If you really want a goal, you better start telling it to everybody.”

“People don’t typically admit what they want.”

A fixed mindset often comes from trauma and leads to a fear of failure.

The more honest and explicit you are the more your environment (people) will support or oppose it.

I think identity is far more important than personality. Personality flows out of our identity.

Fasting is amazing

Fasting is like prayer on steroids.

A personality typing system helps create an identity and removes a lot of ambiguity.

...can limit yourself from imaging a future self.

“They set goals to confirm the label.”

Want to become like Christ?

Define that reality, go for it!

Let's do it together.

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