On The Trail

4 Keys to Understanding Your New Covenant Identity in Christ: You are Pardoned by God, Adopted by God, made a Citizen of the Kingdom of God, and given a new Title: Saint. In this episode, we unpack what it means to be pardoned by God.

Who does God say you are?   

We've been talking about who the world, the flesh, and the devil say you are. This week we’re moving into the Kingdom perspective!

What is the New Covenant, and how does it inform not only how we understand our own identity but God’s as well? 

We’ll be taking the next several episodes to dig deeper into the richness that is our identity in Christ, laying out the practical, theological realities imbued in our relationship with God. 

Are you believing a lie about yourself? About God? We’ve been talking about how the world, the flesh, and the devil try to shape us. In this episode, we look at how the devil uses deception to affect our identity.

What pockets of pain are shaping you?    
No one goes through life without experiencing pain, and that pain comes in all shapes and sizes. We can have pockets of pain from the bad that happens to us, from the absence of the good that we need, and from the way we compare ourselves to others. 
The world’s wounds affect our beliefs about ourselves. In this episode, we press into how the Kosmos tries to shape us. 

How do the Kingdom and the Kosmos inform our identity?

The Kingdom teaches us how to see reality, God, and ourselves as God sees. In Christ, the Kingdom gives us our New Covenant identity. 

The Kosmos involves the world, the flesh, and the devil working together to give us an identity.

In this episode, we begin unpacking the Kosmos with a look at how the world and the flesh conspire to trap us in pecking order systems and comparison games. 

You are not beyond repair. There is hope for you and for your children to grow and repair your identity formation for your whole life. Last episode we talked about attachment-based identity. This episode, we’re pushing into the hope of joyful identity, looking at childhood development and the possibility for growth and repair in adults.

From our brain's perspective, identity is always relational.

Our brains work from right to left, from attachment to beliefs. As we embark into this identity series, we begin with an understanding of how attachment affects our identity.

In this episode, we look at Scripture and brain science, digging into the fascinating idea of how the brain forms its perception of self through three faces. 

God designed us to know ourselves based on relational identity. Isn’t that amazing? 

Time for a new series! We’re looking at personal identity formation from brain science and biblical realities. Why does identity matter? How did God design us to form our identity? What does the Bible teach us about our identity? What can we do to overcome obstacles and repair holes that keep us from living out of our true identity? We’ll be looking at these questions and more as we embark into this new topic.

Anxiety, VCR, Community, Joy - We cover it all in this episode based on your questions as we celebrate one year On the Trail together! We have gifts for you in this episode, including 1 month free of Learning Library Premium. Visit the Online Learning tab at our website and use code “streamfree” when you check out.

What story is your brain telling you? Is it true? In this episode, we wrap up our discussion about the joy elevator and the pain processing pathway with a closer look at the brain’s narrative engine.