The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast

These are troubling times. It helps to have a pastor.Today for Throwback Thursday, I’m bringing back a conversation I had with New York Times Bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado from 2020. We talked about managing anxiety during times of stress, and it’s as relevant today as it was then.Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistBe 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have a response to the challenges we face in life.The question for today is: is your baseline response serving you well? We talk about the self-brain surgery seen in Psalm 73 and Psalm 77, some lessons from my new book, and how to change our own minds.Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistBe 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psalm 73 is a perfect example of self-brain surgery in the BibleToday, a great look at the thought biopsy technique, lousy attitude lobotomy, and better thought transplant operations we can learn from Asaph in Psalm 73.Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistMusic by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New Self-Brain Surgery Operation for Sufferers“Pain is inevitable. But suffering is optional”Haruki MurakamiToday, a very personal talk about how to reframe our thinking about long-held narratives, God’s answer to our prayers, and the difference between pain and suffering.(Replay of a previous episode)“After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. “Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for MeaningScripture: Psalm 34, Psalm 124Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistMusic by Matt Redman(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is God when we need Him the most?Join me for the first of two incredible talks about God’s loving presence in our lives with author, speaker, and radio host Susie Larson!This is one of the best conversations I’ve ever been a part of, and I’m excited to announce that Susie will be back on the show again in two weeks! A double dose of hope from one of the best Christian writers alive, Susie Larson!Susie’s new book is stunning, important, and will help you feel closer to God in your life. Check it out here.Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistBe 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Happens When Life Launches You Out of the Path You Thought You Were On?Here's a talk about those unexpected events that change our lives dramatically and unexpectedly, those "massive things," as we call them. I believe that how you survive and learn to live again depends on the quality of your theology.What does that mean? Listen to find out!Scripture: Hebrews 6:18, Psalm 16:8, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18Music from Eileen WalkerClick the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope Playlist(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Laws of Physics Help Us Navigate the Zone Between Suffering and HopeLife is hard, and either suffering or joy will fill your heart eventually. The good news is, you get to choose which. And physics teaches us how to make the choice. In this episode, we look at three writers' explorations of how to make joy out of any circumstance. Jeremiah, Paul, and Viktor Frankl all come at the problem from different angles, but we can learn a lot from each of them. Click the button below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistBe 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Tuesdays with Tata!(replay)We had a great talk about how we view ourselves, how we view God, and how there is no place in the past that holds the answers to your future.(Adapted from TWT #53)Click the link below to access the Hope Is the First Dose playlist of hopeful, healing songs!Hope PlaylistMusic by Tommy Walker(Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 )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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Mind Change Monday!Here are three crucial ideas you need to change your mind about, starting today. (Updated replay episode with new transcript)Scripture:I Corinthians 10:13Isaiah 44:22Isaiah 46:10PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen!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!Music by (Music shared on The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast is authorized under BMI license #61063253 and ASCAP license #400010513 ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Tuesdays with Tata!Today, we talk about the reality of spiritual warfare, and how to go all-in for the battles life brings to each of us. You may feel like you’re in a fight for your life- and you are- but there’s great hope in learning how God has prepared you!Scripture: Ephesians 6(Classic Episode re-release with transcript!)PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to the show wherever you listen!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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices