How will I survive? At some point or other in our lives, most of us experience some degree of financial need. There have been a few times in my own life when I had serious financial worries. In this podcast, I share three times when I had my own financial struggles, and how God changed my money story with his Story.

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Reading: Philippians 4:19

Should a Christian be an optimist, a pessimist, or a realist? Or is there some other biblical category we should use and aim for? In today’s podcast, Jo shares a story of how God is transforming her by the renewing and rewiring of her mind.

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Reading: Romans 15:13

Thirty years ago, I spent a year in Hungary just as the iron curtain was falling and communism was collapsing. I met Christians there who knew more about God than any PhD graduate I’ve ever known.

It puzzled me? They didn’t have Christian books or seminary education. They didn’t spend a hours a day in their Bibles either. Yet they knew God, they knew theology, they knew salvation in ways I still don’t.

How come. Eventually I figured it out. They knew truth through transformation.

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Reading: 2 Peter 1:5-9.

Alex Lieberman got my attention yesterday when he asked this question on his podcast, Founder’s Journal: “How do I learn in a world of information abundance and limited time?” Who hasn’t asked that?

I loved Alex’s four-level funnel for becoming an understander rather than just a memorizer, and I want to apply it in the area of personal transformation.

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Reading: Mark 4:24

Centering is the latest fad in the world of self-improvement. Whenever I see something like this, I always ask two questions. First, What need is the  world trying to meet with this? Second: What’s the Christian solution? There’s always a genuine human need and there’s always a greater Christian solution.

That’s what Jo does so well in this podcast on centering. Have a listen and you’ll not only write more Christ-centered chapters in your story but you’ll learn how to change others stories from self-centered to Christ-centered.

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Reading: Revelation 1:8

Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.

“Some Christians are practical, whereas others are more theological.” You’ve heard that, haven’t you? Maybe even said it. It’s often used to excuse some Christians from their lack of theology, and to excuse others from their lack of practical Christianity.