The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

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) - Self-Brain Surgery Saturday (00:07) - Operation Gratitude Overwhelms Overwhelm (02:03) - Finding Gratitude in Hardship (05:17) - Overcoming Overwhelm with Gratitude (08:58) - Shift in Perspective: Neuroscience and Gratitude (12:21) - Choosing Gratitude as a Compass (15:29) - Changing Your Mind to Change Your Life

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 episodes with transcripts are available here! (00:01) - Reunion Excitement (03:04) - The Power of Perspective (09:24) - Left Brain vs. Right Brain (11:19) - The Balance of Life (14:48) - Expanding Perspectives

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 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) - Introduction: Spiritual Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren (03:37) - Addressing Current Issues: Politics, Division, and Faith (07:31) - Understanding the Bible: Prescriptive vs. Descriptive (10:16) - Habakkuk: A Prophet's Cry to God (14:29) - Self-Brain Surgery Techniques from Habakkuk (23:34) - Choosing Joy: Lessons from Habakkuk (32:30) - Mind Transplant: From "If" to "Though" (34:26) - Hope in Action: The Path to Change

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 new book!Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!All recent episodes with transcripts are available here! (00:01) - Introduction to Wild Card Wednesday (02:03) - Exploring Philippians Chapter Four (05:56) - Gratitude and Benefits of Following God (20:53) - Commandment of No Self-Malpractice (22:31) - Seeking the Peace of Christ (24:35) - Power of Directed Attention (26:53) - Handling Automatic Negative Thoughts (29:14) - Test of Truth, Necessity, and Compassion

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 devotional with more than 225,000 regular users.He and his wife Sammy are members of The Order of the Mustard Seed (OMS). They split their time between a barge on the River Wey near Guildford, England, and a cliff top retreat on the Isle of Wight where they host and mentor leaders from around the world. Pete is an Ambassador for the NGO Tearfund, a visiting lecturer for St Mellitus Theological College and one of the founding conveners of the Wildfires festival. 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) - Introduction (05:56) - Scheduling Struggles (07:07) - Pre-Interview Prayer (09:50) - Discovering Pete Gregg (14:33) - The Mystery of Holy Saturday (17:26) - God's Will on Earth (18:55) - Navigating Dark Times (23:09) - Teaching How to Pray (26:04) - The PRAY Model (28:25) - Experiencing God's Presence (29:50) - Yielding in Prayer (30:41) - Prayer Life Evolution (32:26) - Deepening Prayer Practices (53:34) - Finding Hope in Grief (58:11) - Comfort in God's Presence

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 prominent of the small circle of scientists working on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known." From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key text in the Intelligent Design movement - the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it, or not.For this edition, Behe has written a major new Afterword tracing the state of the debate in the decade since it began. It is his first major new statement on the subject and will be welcomed by the thousands who wish to continue this intense debate.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) - Introduction to Dr. Michael Behe (07:19) - Personal Reflections and Introduction to Dr. Behe (15:20) - Evolutionary Skepticism and Introduction to Darwin's Black Box (18:03) - The Complexity of Cellular Machinery (20:36) - Clarifying Different Aspects of Evolution (25:46) - The Search for Truth in Science (29:07) - The Impact of Scientific Discoveries on Worldviews (37:03) - Recognizing Intelligent Design (43:37) - The State of Evolutionary Research (48:51) - Preparing Children for Scientific Bias (53:40) - Science vs. Religious Approach (55:16) - The Philosophical Foundation of Evolution (57:06) - Arming Children with Scientific Knowledge

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 are available here! (00:01) - Introduction (00:18) - Frontal Lobe Friday Concept (02:10) - Exciting News and Engagements (03:25) - Unveiling Recent Conversations (04:24) - Interview Experiences and Insights (06:04) - Highlighting Dr. Ben Carson Interview (08:32) - Discussion on Family Importance (13:26) - Understanding Trauma Responses (16:07) - Exploring Perception and Perspective (19:16) - Making Informed Decisions (22:31) - Reflecting on Images of Jesus (25:16) - Pursuit of True Happiness (28:58) - Embracing Hope and Peace

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/BibleApp based on my new book!Sign up for my weekly Self-Brain Surgery Newsletter here!All recent episodes with transcripts are available here! (00:02) - Introduction (01:45) - The Process of Making Rounds (03:58) - The SOAP Note Tool (09:20) - Objective Assessment (11:43) - Switching Positions - Patient to Doctor (21:03) - Making Evening Rounds (22:24) - Mental Image: Standing on the River Bank (26:56) - Value of Making Rounds (28:42) - Navigating Forward

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 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) - Introduction (07:41) - Recognizing the Need for Change (12:30) - Applying Neuroscience and Faith (15:52) - The Relevance of Quantum Physics in Everyday Life (20:45) - Influence of Observation in Quantum Physics (24:07) - Shifting Focus from Troublesome Labels (26:22) - Embracing a Dual Reality (30:22) - Avoiding Single Reality Defining Life (33:51) - Two Truths Can Coexist (34:51) - Conclusion and Next Steps

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.comThere’s hope for greater satisfaction, purpose and joy in your life, even if circumstances have you down….Stanford-trained psychiatrist David Carreon, MD, reveals what it takes to move from nagging disappointment, dissatisfaction, or depression to a life of thriving. One of the pioneers of the use of an intense form of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in severely depressed patients, Dr. Carreon was astonished by how quickly and dramatically most of them recovered. But he also saw very clearly that just eliminating the symptoms of depression wasn't enough. To live a truly fulfilling life, his patients needed to leave old habits behind and embrace the patterns of flourishing. In The Opposite of Depression, he draws on insights from his clinical experience, the latest research, and his Christian faith to point readers to principles and practices that promote thriving in mind, body and soul. Each chapter offers practical steps readers can take to start moving in the direction of greater satisfaction, fulfillment and purpose.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) - Introduction to Dr. David Carrion and His Book (03:53) - Dr. David Carrion's Background and Inspiration (17:11) - Exploring Treatment Options for Depression (22:22) - Addressing the Relationship Between Faith and Depression (24:05) - Embodiment and Spirituality (33:50) - The Challenge of Diagnostic Reliability (40:24) - The Power of Focused Attention (42:42) - Finding Hope in Times of Great Suffering (44:33) - The Concept of Blessedness (46:07) - Keeping Hope Beyond Material Circumstances