This Week at PLM: Courage, Captive Thoughts, and Episode 100
Dear friends,
This week at Power Love & Miracles, we continue the Have This Mind journey by paying attention to the thoughts, fears, and inner narratives that shape the soul.
We begin with courage.
Not courage as denial. Not courage as bravado. Courage as the grace to stand with God inside the future we fear. There are moments when fear speaks so loudly that it starts to sound like prophecy. But fear is not our prophet. Christ is Lord even in the places we cannot yet see clearly.
From there, the week moves toward one of the central practices of a renewed mind: bringing our thoughts before Christ.
Not every thought deserves a throne.
Some thoughts need to be noticed. Some need to be questioned. Some need to be comforted. Some need to be surrendered. A thought that enters the mind does not have to become an agreement. An agreement does not have to become a stronghold. A stronghold does not have to keep ruling a place in the soul that belongs to Christ.
On Tuesday, The Bible Unplugged continues this theme with Taking Every Thought Captive, based on 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. We will look at how unchallenged thoughts can begin to shape us, and how Christ interrupts the pattern with truth, mercy, and renewed authority.
And on Friday, Still, Here reaches Episode 100.
That number matters to me because it represents one hundred quiet spaces for Scripture, reflection, and prayerful presence. One hundred invitations to slow down. A consistent reminder that God is not absent from the ordinary day. Still, Here was never meant to be loud. It was meant to be faithful. I am deeply grateful for everyone who has listened, shared, prayed, or allowed these daily episodes to become part of your rhythm.
I also want to keep placing Steady: Living Between Grace and Covenant before you.
Steady was written for people learning to live faithfully in unfinished places. It is for those seasons when grace has met us, but life has not fully resolved. It is for the space between what God has given and what God is still forming.
If Have This Mind is helping you notice how God renews the soul, Steady gives a broader foundation for that same journey.
And if Steady has encouraged you, one of the most helpful things you can do is leave a short Amazon review or share the book with someone who may need it. A few honest sentences can help the book become visible to another person living through transition, uncertainty, grief, pressure, or spiritual reorientation.
Thank you for reading, listening, praying, and sharing this work. The word keeps moving forward because people like you help carry it.
This week, may Christ meet us in the thoughts that frighten us, the stories that have shaped us, and the places within us that are ready to be renewed.
Stay steady.
Stay open.
Stay present.
You are still, here.
Grace and peace,
Brent