Embracing Change

Why don't you like yourself? Why don't you have joy?  Why are you unhappy?  "Refresh" reimagines the "why" behind our unhappiness.   What is your mind-posture?   Produced by Jennifer Osborn  Recorded on 1/24/2022  Comments or questions: lucretiaspeakstruth@gmail.com

Season 6 - Redefining Outcomes - Redevelop =renovation.  How to we redevelop outcomes and how to we reset it in the way that we think?

It's all about the stories that connect us.  Join Lucretia and Jennifer as they discuss the ways in which God brings all of the parts of the triune man to work together to accomplish his will.  This happens through our "before Christ" (bc) days, our "considering Christ" (cc) days, and our "after Christ" (ac) days.    Referenced Scripture Psalm 139 Recorded on 11/22/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn...

Common sense.  Nonsense.  Uncommon sense.  We use these terms a lot in our daily life.  While some think common sense cannot be learned, we can be taught to think critically.   Join us for a conversation about all kinds of sense as we prepare to end the season.   Book Referenced:  The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work by Gary Kline (2004).  The Four...

We can be a fragrance or an odor.  This is spiritually, physically, and emotionally.  Are we identifiable by our aroma or our stink?  This is a conversation you will enjoy. Recorded 11/22/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

Touch is such an important thing, not only in life as people but also spiritually when there is a "laying on of hands" or an "impartation of the spirit".  If you aren't familiar with those terms we explain them and then explore them a little deeper.    Recorded 11/22/2021.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

Things can feel very heavy.  Sometimes it feels very light.  This can be a spirit situation.   Stress, chaos, problems, even words can be heavy or you can make them light.  Are you bringing heaviness or are you bringing lightness?   Recorded 11/16/2021.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions/Comments/Prayer Requests: josborn@citygospelmission.org

What do you think of when you hear the word "spirit?"  It can mean a lot of different things to different people.  Everyone has one, but do we understand exactly what it does and operates within us?   Recorded 11/16/2021.  Produced by Jennifer Osborn

We see the behaviors and immediately think we understand the person, but what would it mean for us to ask why?  There is a visible soul man and an invisible soul man -- one certainly acts from the other.  It is a practice to stop and ask deeper questions and be willing to truly listen to the answer.   Recorded 11/1/2021.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: Josborn@citygospelmissio...

Where is the soul man and how does he control you?  The answer might surprise you.  Join us as we take a look at what all encompasses the soul and how God can heal it.   Recorded on 11/1/2021. Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments:  josborn@citygospelmission.org

A continuing conversation related to the body and how we operate in the realm of "hardware" and "software."   Book cited in this episode is "Back to the Gospel" by Peter K. Louis.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Recorded 10/25/2021 Questions or Comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

 We are made up of the body, soul, and spirit - a triune organism.  Each part has a purpose and can get steered in the wrong direction.  In this episode, we will be talking about the body.    Referenced in this episode is the book "The High 5 Habit" by Mel Robbins.   Recorded 10/25/2021.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn.   Email comments to: Josborn@citygospelmission.org

What do Teslas and Jesus have in common?  We answer that question in this last episode of this season of Resetting Our Beliefs.   So when are you starting?  Your beliefs will not change unless you begin.   Recorded: August 30, 2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

Are you looking to other people to take responsibility for how you feel and what you believe?  It's an easy path to take.  In this episode, we are asking, "who is your help?"  With anything we believe, we have to begin to help ourselves in changing our beliefs and taking responsibility for them.   Recorded  8/30/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Question or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

In this episode, Lucretia Bowman shares about three key areas to help us shake off the old mindset - wisdom, morality, and concentration.  Wisdom brings the right view, right intention, and the right speech. Morality is right actions.  Concentration is being mindful, being focused, and being aware. Recorded 8/16/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org...

It's a struggle constantly to pick the healthier way.  For some of us, being unhealthy feels so normal that healthy ways of doing things seem incomprehensible.   Your beliefs can be just as unhealthy as eating food that clogs your arteries.  But you can move from the unhealthy way of believing to healthy beliefs. Recorded 8/17/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygos...

You have to go back in order to go forward.  Sounds counterintuitive, but if you are carrying the baggage of a belief system that isn’t serving you well, you need to go back as far as you need to in order to find the origin story of your beliefs.   Mentioned in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX9U4rLL9ww             https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-wrongly-convicted-people-still-...

When you hear the words "give up" are you seeing it as a surrender or as an exchange?  Giving up something allows space for something new.  In this episode, we will talk about what it is to exchange one belief for another.   Recorded July 19, 2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

A person rarely changes from a place of comfort.  Trying to change is like cutting yourself open to pull out the part of yourself that is diseased.  But you have to first start by getting uncomfortable.  If you are trying to change and are feeling the struggle, you are doing it right.    In this Episode: https://www.netflix.com/title/81038216 (The Best of Enemies) Recorded: 7/19/2021 Produced by J...

Beliefs are like roads, sometimes they can be a smaller road and other times a highway.  We all travel the roads of belief systems, but there are times you have to ask yourself how you got to your destination and if it still makes sense.   Recorded on 7/12/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org

Where did your beliefs come from?  Have you ever asked yourself that? Lucretia reveals most beliefs are influenced by our parents, environment, education, our pain, our experiences.  Those beliefs are shaped and impacted by the general systems of the world: education, economics, entertainment, government, legal, financial, religion, political, social, defense, labor, and society. Be brave and ask...

Do you fight over simple things like which way the toilet paper faces?  Or does being wrong make you feel less valuable than someone else?  In this episode of Embracing Change, we are asking the question, “What have you been believing?”  In asking that question you can start digging into Resetting our belief system. Produced by Jennifer Osborn Recorded on 7/9/2021 Questions or comments: josborn@ci...

In this last episode of Season 3, Lucretia and Jennifer discuss the difference between the first Adam and the second Adam, as well as singing part of “The Adams Family” theme (written by Vic Mizzy).  It’s always a great journey to re-cover yourself. Book referenced in the episode:  In the realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Mate, M.D. I am Human: A Book of Empathy – Susan Verde I am Peace: A Book of Mi...

Ever wonder how to organize yourself to begin the walk of change?  Join Lucretia and Jennifer as they discuss the steps to wholeness. Book referenced in the episode: Choose Again: 6 Steps to Freedom – Diederik Wolsak Episode recorded on 4/26/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn For questions or comments, please email: josborn@citygospelmission.org

Chaos is all around us and can become an addiction unto itself.  Breaking the cycle of chaos begins with taking responsibility and asking yourself critical questions needed to bring awareness and order.   Recorded 4/26/2021 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: josborn@citygospelmission.org   Books referenced in this episode: Scattered – Gabor Mate, M. D. When the Body Says No – Gabor...