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061: How Changed Thinking Leads to Changed Relationships

By John Certalic on April 22, 2020 0

Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode where today we talk about how changing the way we think changes the way we relate to others. But before we get into this, I have two responses from listeners about prior episodes I want to share with you.

[Darlene’s text about people looking at their cell phones]

Randy from Pittsburgh who texted “I can't wait to get into my car to listen to this week's You Were Made for This episode! It is breakfast for my soul as I drive to work each Wednesday morning.”

Several weeks ago in episode 56, Changing How We Think, we examined 3 ways God transforms us into a new person by changing the way we think. Today we consider how our relationships can be transformed by changing the way we think. [Read more…] about 061: How Changed Thinking Leads to Changed Relationships

060: One Perspective on Stay-At-Home You Probably Haven’t Heard Before

By John Certalic on April 15, 2020 0

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today, as always, I’m here to help us consider how we can experience more joy in our relationships.

Are you tired of all the coronavirus news? Almost all of which is depressing and negative. Some of which is conflicting information. One week it’s the average person on the street should not be wearing masks when they’re out and about, and then two weeks later it’s all of us SHOULD be wearing masks.

It’s like columnist Peggy Noonan’s comment from episode 57 that I mentioned a few weeks back: “We’re all just feeling our way through this, and it’s going to be a mess.”

At the risk of adding to the information overload about the coronavirus, today I want to offer one simple but useful perspective I’m almost certain you haven’t heard elsewhere. I know I haven’t. I’m convinced it could make these difficult times not only more bearable for us, but actually enriching. So keep listening. [Read more…] about 060: One Perspective on Stay-At-Home You Probably Haven’t Heard Before

059: The Last Place You Would Ever Think to Find Joy

By John Certalic on April 8, 2020 8

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today, as always, we're here together to consider how we can experience more joy in our relationships.

I had another episode all ready to go for today, but I’ll save it for next week because something came up the other night that I want to share with you because of it’s timeliness, and because it illustrates an important relationship principle. It’s about finding joy in a relationship in the most unlikely of places.

So stick around and listen, especially near the end where I describe a connection between 4 different relationships, 98 years apart, a connection that is bringing me joy during a difficult time I’m in right now. I share it because this same joy is available to you during the difficult times you are going through, or will go through. [Read more…] about 059: The Last Place You Would Ever Think to Find Joy

058: How a Crisis Can Bring Out the Best in Us

By John Certalic on April 1, 2020 0

Welcome to today’s episode where today we look at several examples of how people are reaching out and caring for each other during our present day global health crisis. Hopefully these stories will inspire you to do the same.

I mentioned in last week’s episode, no.57, that a crisis like we are experiencing now in the spring of 2020 creates opportunities for us to find goodness in our relationships with people.

I have also found some relational goodness in humor in these difficult times.

Here are several examples:

Facebook post 1:

Until further notice: No one can stop by unannounced. We ain’t sick, we just don’t trust you around our toilet paper.

Facebook post 2: [Read more…] about 058: How a Crisis Can Bring Out the Best in Us

057: Relational Goodness in Times of Crisis

By John Certalic on March 25, 2020 2

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s episode where today we reflect on the impact the coronavirus is having on our relationships. There’s no shortage of information about the virus itself. How it’s affecting our physical health, advice how to take care of our self, the impact on the economy, and the disruption in our normal daily life.

I don’t want to talk about any of that. Instead, I want to talk about what I mentioned in my Every Wednesday email from last week where I asked listeners to share with me examples of anything positive they have seen coming out of the coronavirus health crisis we are in. I asked for specific, concrete stories , anything that someone saw, heard, or experienced that would encourage people.

So today’s episode is all about the positive, all about the goodness found in the challenging times we are in. [Read more…] about 057: Relational Goodness in Times of Crisis

056: Changing How We Think

By John Certalic on March 18, 2020 0

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 56, where today we consider one relationship that affects all others. Our relationship with our self, and how we think.

In the last few episodes, 54, The Greatest Obstacle to Relationships and 55, How to Overcome our Greatest Relationship Obstacle, we talked about the relational disease of self-centeredness, and how we can be cured of it by letting God transform us into a new person by changing the way we think.

The cure comes from the apostle Paul who wrote in Romans 12: 2 “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”

How we think affects our behavior. It affects our emotions. It affects how we relate to other people. How we think affects EVERYTHING.

In this episode I’ll be sharing several examples of how this works, so you can get an idea of how changing your thinking could transform you into a new person. The person God wants you to be. Listen in. [Read more…] about 056: Changing How We Think