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For several months, I’ve been mulling over the connection between the phrase “renewing of your mind” in Romans 12:2 and what scientific studies are demonstrating are the best practical ways to retrain your brain. I’ve been looking into several resources about retraining the brain.

Obviously, Paul had in mind the spiritual element of rewiring our minds and thought processes by saturation with the truths of Scripture. But God has designed the human brain to respond to stimuli, form patterns, and require less effort to live in those patterns. That’s one reason why bad habits bring damage when practiced over time and good habits bring flourishing!

Our church is continuing our leadership development on Saturday mornings. This is the second book in a series of three by Aubrey Malphurs. Each week I’m challenged and stretched in my thinking about leadership, especially around practical elements of church and organizational leadership.

The best part has been hearing the perspectives of the leaders of our church and growing our relationships together.

I’ve wanted to read a biography on Napoleon for a long time. Libby is the best for audiobooks!

So far, two things have stood out to me about him: he had a willingness to ask any question (no matter how dumb it seemed) in the process of learning, and he communicated frequently (sending an average of a few hundred letters per month for years on end).

This week, we launched a new strategy team at SonSet focused on mobilization – finding and recruiting staff members to join our team. The team will focus on generating new approaches to mobilization, prototyping and piloting these ideas within our team, and then rolling them out to the broader team at SonSet.

This book has been so helpful as we’ve been formulating this team’s approach. Rumelt highlights that a good strategy has a kernel at its core. This kernel is made up of three things:

Continuing in this fast-paced saga this week. Excellent writing on a remarkable man.

It has been fascinating to read of the cultural shift that occurred at 10 Downing Street (the residence of the British Prime Minister during the era) when Churchill replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Churchill was energetic, demanding, and rigorous.