The Christian Health Club Podcast

347: How God Designed the Christian Brain with Dr. Tim Jennings

The Christian Health Club Podcast

Show Notes

In this episode, Dr. Tim Jennings, psychiatrist and author of The God-Shaped Brain, explains how our beliefs about God influence the way we think, feel, respond to stress and experience our faith. We unpack why so many Christians carry an underlying fear of God, how seeing Him as angry or punitive can keep us operating from fear and survival, and what happens when we replace those beliefs with truth, love and trust. We also tackle some BIG questions: Have we misunderstood the God of the...

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