Category: Spiritual Health

AI-Designed Acoustic Solution Targets Noise Pollution

Summary: A new AI-driven method has been developed to design ventilated acoustic resonators (VARs) that block noise while maintaining ventilation, offering a potential solution for noise pollution in urban environments. The method uses a deep-learning model and genetic algorithms to optimize the resonator’s shape, achieving broad sound attenuation across various frequencies. This technology could improve…

Emotional Health

Where Heaven Touches Earth: Why Mountains Mesmerize Us

Recently, my wife and I became fascinated with documentaries about mountain climbers. It started with Free Solo, which tells the story of Alex Honnold and his ascent of one of the most difficult rock faces in Yosemite National Park — without any ropes! We watched awestruck at what Honnold accomplished and, at the same time,…

Emotional Health

Baptists Untimely Born: The ‘Puritan Dilemma’ of the Congregationalists

ABSTRACT: English and American Congregationalists like John Cotton, John Owen, and Jonathan Edwards arrived at somewhat Baptist conclusions regarding the regenerate nature of the church and its distinction from the state. Because they also believed in infant baptism and state-sponsored religion, however, they had a dilemma. The steep decline in Congregationalism since the seventeenth and…

Spiritual Health

Seven Encouragements for Parents of Prodigals

Audio Transcript Today we read Luke 15:11–32 together in our Bible reading, the parable of the prodigal son, or the parable of the prodigal sons (plural). It’s a famous story about a father — a blameless father — and his two sons, who are anything but blameless, each of them entrapped by his own sin…

Emotional Health

Relationships Pt. 1: Unleash Your God-given Voice

FREE DOWNLOAD: Access the “Community Temperature Reading” Video and PDF for free — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community To cultivate healthy relationships, everyone around you must feel empowered to communicate clearly and honestly. In part one of this series, Geri Scazzero is joined by her husband Pete, to explore the first of 8 essential relationship skills every leader must adopt…

Spiritual Health

Emotionally Healthy Parenting: A Radical Approach to a Difficult Task, Pt. 1

SKILLS FOR FAMILIES: Learn a powerful 5-part conversation tool and teach your family. https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/community ————————— Today, we’re tackling a relatively untouched topic on the podcast. Parenting. Why parenting on a leadership podcast? Among your many roles as a leader, one of the most important (and difficult) relationships is parents and children. The truth is –…

Emotional Health

Live a Larger Life: An Invitation to World Christianity

When someone turns from self to Christ, he trades not only sin for righteousness, hell for heaven, and despair for living hope. He also trades a small life for a large life — a life as large as the world Christ came to redeem. The transformation takes time, of course. But in the end, the…

Emotional Health

The Quiet Grief of Caregiving: Four Balms for the Overburdened

“So, you’re a trauma surgeon! Tell me, what was your best case?” Suddenly, the studio lights glared uncomfortably bright. Undoubtedly, the interviewer wanted me to offer him a flashy, adrenaline-fueled scene worthy of TV docudramas, a story stuffed to the brim with clickbait. But for those of us who toil in the wages of sin…

Emotional Health

Relationships Pt. 3: The Life-Saving Practice of Clarifying Expectations

Podcast Description: FREE PREVIEW: Download and Watch Session One of the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course — https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/preview Unclear and unmet expectations have the power to rip apart relationships, divide teams, blow up families, and sink entire churches. That’s why expectations are a matter of life and death! There are 4 primary ways expectations go wrong: Your expectation…

Emotional Health

Can We Pray for God to Teach Someone a Lesson?

Audio Transcript Can we pray that God would teach someone a lesson? Can we pray for God to disrupt and make their life hard, all to get their attention? It’s an interesting question from Tiffany today. “Pastor John, hello and thank you for the podcast. I know the Bible says to love our enemies and…