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Change Space
by Change Space
Discover how God’s story changes our story. God’s love for us grows us healthier in our relationships with Him, ourselves and each other. The story He tells us in the Bible contains so much about good mental health that science is just now discovering. Let’s explore scripture telling us how God grows sound minds for us.
Episodes
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Wisdom S4E12
Will I grow up? Will you grow up? Wisdom calls to you and I to allow her to grow us up in the love the Jesus and live in the way of life, drawing others into life as we grow. Will we grow up? Jesus has made the way and walks all the way from beginning to end with us. So let us say "yes" to Jesus,...
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Spirit S4E11
We need the Holy Spirit to live in right relationships with God, ourselves and each other. Saul's story tells us where we end up in life when we desire what we want from our own understanding instead of trusting God's good will for us. When we embrace the Holy Spirit, He fills us with love that…
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Help! S4E10
We all need help! Turning to Jesus is the first step in admitting our need for help. Jesus helps us directly with His very presence AND He brings us into relationship with each other so we can help each other too along with Him. King David's story starts with him working as a shepherd for his...
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A Pause for Change Space
I wanted to fill you in on the status of Change Space.
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Regenerate S4E9
Lies we learn about Jesus and mistrust we grow from trauma toward Jesus keep us from the truth of His love. We experience His love when the pain of sin in our lives forces a question: keep going our own way or start going toward Jesus. Letting go of our way makes room for us to experience being...
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Victory S4E8
Jesus walked through and worked through the unique pain in each one of our lives! Every single bit of pain in your life, Jesus already walked through and worked through that pain into a pathway to life. That was the work He did on the cross for us. Now we can walk where He leads us, no matter how...
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Complete S4E7
There are parts of of us that trust Jesus and there are parts of us that don't. God brings to our awareness the parts of us that need us love and are missing out so we can with our attention, learn to sustain enough attention on Jesus to bring those parts of us to Him. Trusting Jesus as He works…
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Sustain S4E6
Giving God attention with our time is a good start to growing relationship with Him. Attention starts the process and sustaining attention is what grows us in the process. Moses learned to sustain his attention on God. The freed people of Israel did not, missed out on entering God's promised land...
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Attention S4E5
Attention directs our cells to start firing and wiring together. Who and what we pay attention to shapes our identity. Attention directs the neuroplasticity God gave us for change. Attention, neuroplasticity, even time are all things with potential for growing maturity and growing stagnation. The...
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Time S4E4
God's compassion is what we need but we often reject because His compassion feels too unfamiliar compared to what we are used to as part of relational traumas caused by sin in our lives. We face the paradox of what we need feeling dysregulating in some ways when in fact God's compassion enters…
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Compassion S4E3
Walking outdoors, listening to birds sing, these are just two of the things that can help us face ourselves honestly and regulate the feelings and thoughts inside of us that we typically avoid facing. However, our feelings operate within us whether we face them or not. The Holy Spirit brings us…
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Oneness S4E2
There are things we say "no" to that God knows we need. For example, I said "no" to dogs for our family for years. Now we have two who were sitting with me as I taped this episode. God knew I needed them to get me out on to the nature trail when I was really depressed. It's His saving grace that...
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Transcendence S4E1
God transcends time and transforms us over time. Learning to abide in His love grows and matures us. Then God's love connects us into more love with Him and each other.
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Change Space: exploring how God’s story changes our stories
Our stories tell us what shapes our identities. So let me tell you a little bit about my story and how God’s story is changing my story. He is growing me into a healthier, whole human being whose identity rests in Him. He wants this for each one of us! Join me in discovering how God's story can...
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Sabbath Rest S3E12
Rest in Jesus grows you and me identity as His beloved. We experience more completely how well-loved we are by Him. Jesus put a promise into time itself on the seventh day of the first creation account. He fulfilled that promise on the cross so you and I could have new life living in love through...
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Rest Beloved S3E11
You and I have our original identity as God's beloved. Sin shifted our sense of identity onto a foundation of shame and selfishness/narcissism. Love didn't leave us there though. Love meets us right where we are but love doesn't leave us unchanged. We exercise our freedom to choose at those...
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Rest in Trust S3SE10
Jesus promised rescue from sin for us into time and space itself when He began creating our world. Then Jesus brought Himself in human form to live within the constraints of this time and space that He Himself had made to fulfill His promise to us. Jesus experienced the pain of sin, committed to...
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Rest through Repentance S3E7
Small moments of attention on Jesus can add up! They start to create focus on Him. The more attention we give to Jesus, the more we experience being loved by Him, the more we begin to be freed from lies that create our pain, the more we repent of those lies leading to our self-righteousness....
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Rest in the Repairing S3E9
It's messy work allowing Jesus to overcome darkness in us with His light. It's necessary work allowing Jesus to overcome darkness in us with His light. We need Jesus to do this work in us! We need His light in our darkness so we can repent. Repentance repairs damage from our darkness and the...
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Rest Being Loved S3E8
Sometimes we get things backwards. We focus on loving others while struggling to love each other well with our own efforts. When we read in the Bible that Jesus tells us to love each other the way He loves us in the Bible, we often skip the most important step in this development - first being...
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Rest Praying S3E6
The choices we make with our attention reveal who and what shapes our identity, who and what we worship. Attention on Jesus helps us experience being loved by Him...this is at the heart of starting to pray to Him. Praying with attention on Jesus, His loving us, motivates us to choose His love…
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Rest at the Crossroad S3E5
Pain is a crossroad each one of us faces, moment by moment, every day. Pain is operating no matter which decision we make. The familiar road in the limbic system part of our brains that avoids pain, runs, hides or pretends pain away, leads to death. The unfamiliar road of facing and walking…
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Rest With Pain S3E4
Coming to Jesus honestly, even about what is uncomfortable and painful, allows the Holy Spirit to start creating healthier brain connections, expanding our sense of self toward the image bearers of God we are created to become. God does all this work for us. He helps bring rest for our pain. He…
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Rest in Small Moments S3E3
So many small moments take place during a day that give us opportunity to grow more trust in Jesus. If we don't let those moments grow trust in Jesus, we stay stuck in the familiar space of trusting ourselves. While the big moments get our attention, it is often in small moments, easily…
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Freeing the Captives S1E10
The Bible tells us each of us has a darkness in us that Jesus wants to transform for us with His light. Changing our darkness into His light is a developmental process. He wants to go into the far reaches of deeper, darker spaces to free parts of our mind stuck in pain. He won't stop until He...
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Truth about Trust S1E3
God wants to grow our minds more healthy, mature, integrated and whole. Genesis 1 tells us the Holy Spirit is ready and willing to do this transformative work for us, with us, in us. Encountering God, learning to to trust Him strengthens the prefrontal cortex part of our brains. As this frontal...
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Rest in Truth S3E2
Genesis 3 tells us the origin story of pain for the human race. It started with mistrust of God's goodness. Pain ignored just grows more pain. Pain directs us to live our lives based on lies instead of truth. We can change this by inviting the Holy Spirit to bring us to truth. He can free us from...
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Rest for Pain S3E1
Welcome to Season 3 of Change Space. In the time between Season 2 and 3, I've had a chance to rest, rest from pain. We don't like pain and put a lot of work into running from pain, hiding from pain and pretending pain away. The problem with this approach is that it just adds more pain to existing...
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Invited S2E12
Jesus invites each on of us to live in love with Him! Saying "yes" to His invitation brings us out of the darkness inside us, the very darkness that keeps us disconnected from ourselves, God and each other. He does this gently, kindly, with compassion over time. As God brings us into His light…
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Worship S2E11
Who and what we give our attention to with our time becomes our source of wisdom. If it's not God, it leads to death. God's wisdom brings us to life with Him in sanctuary. We see how Eve and Adam decided to trust their own wisdom over God's wisdom. It brought them fear, shame, blame, hiding and...
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Relationship S2E10
Relationship with Jesus is powerful. When we allow the Holy Spirit to bring us to Jesus, when we experience being loved by Jesus, His love changes you and me. As we change, our relationships with others start changing too. Discomfort, disruptions might emerge from growing pains of learning new...
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Re-creation S2E9
Every one of us experiences pain. We typically try to avoid our pain, hide from or run away from the pain. The problem with pain is that when ignored, shoved aside, or hidden, it grows and gains space in our minds. Pain in us disrupts us and our relationships. It is described as darkness in the...
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Revelation S2E8
You know what helped me see Jesus? The children's book series by C. S. Lewis called The Chronicles of Narnia revealed Jesus for me. Everything we take in plays a role in how we perceive God, can reveal Jesus for us. God gave me revelation over time using a children's story. Revelation begins with...
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Reality S2E7
Living in reality is living in truth. To live in truth is trusting God and His love for us. We can then live within sanctuary boundaries of truth over lies. When we aren’t trusting God, we enter into shame that takes us into hiding from ourselves, each other as well as God. Because Jesus came to...
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Repair S2E6
Between the stimulus and response there is a space - space from which we have freedom and power to choose. Our choices take us toward life or death. Our ability to tolerate truth plays a big role in our capacity to choose life. Dealing with reality engages us to seek and give forgiveness, work...
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Audacious S2E5
Allowing God to love us, experiencing being loved helps truth defeat lies. Sanctuary is founded on truth. Living in sanctuary is abiding in love. Sanctuary living develops us into obedience of the Spirit's promptings and convictions that grow love, shine light more bright for ourselves and others.
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Loved S2E4
Knowing about God and experiencing being loved by God aren't the same things. Each one of us holds darkness inside of us that needs the love of God to transform into His light. Knowing about Him doesn't overcome darkness for us. Experiencing being loved transforms our darkness into light. Many of...
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Reconciling S2E3
Jesus reconciles us to Himself, starting with His gift of forgiveness. When we allow the Holy Spirit to show us the truth of who Jesus really is, who we really are, we have the choice to repent. Repentance produces joy as we let go of sin and embrace Jesus more closely. And from there, we start…
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Forgiving S2E2
When we give Jesus our attention with our time, He changes our space to grow sanctuary for us. In sanctuary living, love rule in our lives so we bear good fruit of God's image. We seek to live in truth with love, building healthier relationships with God, ourselves and others. Something essential...
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Sanctuary S2E1
Welcome to E1S2! We celebrate how Jesus grows us to completion! He is our sanctuary built from time and space. When we give Jesus our attention with our time, His Spirit changes our space so we start living in sanctuary, bearing good fruit of Jesus' character. His Word is part of the sanctuary...
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Rest Work S1E12
Growing in Jesus brings us to rest...rest in His work. We are made to produce from His work, not our own. Episode 12 celebrates the good work He has been doing for me to experience this truth, grow in trust, develop more safety and find myself changing in His presence. I pray you are experiencing...
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Moving with Compassion S1E11
Our bodies tell a story of the very beginning of our identities. Those early moments absorb a lot of pain caused by sin. Sin causes relational hurts, harms, and even traumas. God’s compassion moves Him to care for us, all aspects of us, including our bodies. Jesus is moving all of us as we seek…
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Offering Time S1E9
Offering my time to Jesus allows Him to change my space. This practices abiding with Him. This practices living free and safe in Jesus. It takes practice because true freedom is unfamiliar and doesn’t feel safe. When you and I practice abiding, learning what it means to be truly safe, the Holy...
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A New Way S1E8
Relationship with Jesus begins with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps us connect with and grow a safe, loving, trusting, freeing relationship with Jesus. He does this in part by helping us to give Jesus our attention, time and focus. He joyfully brings us into the completed…
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Promise in Time S1E7
Episode 7 in this first season of Change Space continues exploring how God made time with His light on the first day of creation. He culminated time in creation week by putting into the seventh day a promise in time itself that He would complete the work of moving us from darkness to light. One…
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Making Time S1E6
God made time with His light on the first day of creation. His light strengthens our prefrontal cortex from the darkness of our limbic system. Our limbic systems write out for us stories of fear, mistrust, shame and blame that leave us disconnected and self-deceived. God meets us in the dark…
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The Strength of Vulnerability S1E5
Vulnerability, what so many of us mistakenly think of as weakness is actually strength. Vulnerability strengthens us to take the risks necessary to grow love and trustworthiness. It’s recounted best in the four Gospels and confirmed in research done across multiple disciplines of science. If you...
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Taking Risks of Trust S1E4
Growing trust requires taking risks by learning new, healthier ways as we unlearn old ways. Each step of trust you and I risk taking with God takes us one step deeper into freedom from lies and mistrust. Letting God’s love into our lives is an adventure of trust-building that strengthens us to be...
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Three Parts S1E2
God tells us a lot about Himself and us in the introduction to the creation story in Genesis 1. He is moving us from what is chaotic, without healthy boundaries into purposeful, ordered, healthy boundaries with Him, with ourselves and others. The Spirit, there from the beginning is ready and...
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The Building Block of Trust S1E1
Life is messy! God knows this which is why He tells us in His story that His love for us grows trust. Trust is an essential building block for relationships, for learning and for neuroplasticity, the ability of our brains to unlearn and relearn new, healthier things. Early psychology models of...
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Discover how God’s story changes our story. God’s love for us grows us healthier in our relationships with Him, ourselves and each other. The story He tells us in the Bible contains so much about good mental health that science is just now discovering. Let’s explore scripture telling us how God grows sound minds for us.
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