Beliefchangers Blog

Beliefchangers is a project founded by KXOJ owner David Stephens. Read more about it here.

Below are the latest blog entries from www.beliefchangers.com. You can also find Beliefchangers on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

• : The Holy Place Called “You” - Belief Changers
  Way below the surface, far beyond the deepest part of the heart, further still than the place soul divides with your inner most being, in the holy of holies where Jesus and the Spirit commune with your spirit, God has recreated you into something beyond human.  Humanity has a beginning and an ending, but you [...]
• : What to Do When a Strange God Shows Up in Your Life - Belief Changers
  I have an image of God contrary to the God I know in my heart.  It’s the image shown to me at my worst moments. God is love, yes, but not so much at my worst, at least the false image tells me so.  Blurred and shadowy around the edges, God’s love appears more as [...]
• : Living Without Fear - Belief Changers
  A fog has rolled in over me.  Not the kind that gently settles in over a meadow on a bright, sunshiny morning.  Dense, intense, against the backdrop of ever clouding thoughts and feelings, the shades of blues and grays streak across my soul in a gradient color of dullness. The not so distant view of [...]
• : Finding Life Outside of Yourself - Belief Changers
  A few days ago, I caught myself thinking about all that I’m not.  I know all the holes, all the faults, the weaknesses, the things if we met, I could easily hide.  Others see glimpses of my best, while I’m stuck in full view of all my worst.  If you knew me, like I knew [...]
• : This Christian Life You One Day Hope to Live - Belief Changers
  I feel the tension.  The rationalization of Christianity presses in on me from all sides.  Work ethic, frugality, modesty, morality, rigidness, conservatism, theology, old fashioned puritanism, all conspiring with one another to hold back my faith instead of letting it go.  My spiritual life longs for the heart but remains a captive of the mind.  [...]
• : Finding a Faith that Changes Your Life - Belief Changers
  I have asked a new friend of mine, Emily Freeman, to write about her personal journey of finding the deeper life of faith in Christ. When you finish reading, you’ll know why I did. I hope her words drop as deeply into your life as they did in mine. — David “If we are to [...]
• : The Fix for a Failed Relationship - Belief Changers
  When relationships fall apart, a certain amount of your identity shatters into pieces. You look to others and the way they treat you for clues as to how whole you are as a person.  If all is well, and others like you, you feel the freedom to like yourself.  But when experiencing rejection, what does [...]
• : A Moment in Time with God - Belief Changers
  The other day, I caught a glimpse of my youngest son, Calvin.  I thought I was looking at me.  He does take after his dad in looks and mannerisms.  (Not to mention his ready, fire, aim temperament!) Have you ever wondered what God thinks when He looks down at you?  Somehow, I think He sees [...]
• : Have You Read the Story Written About You? - Belief Changers
  There’s a writer I know who develops each storyline, or narrative, seeing three dimensional characters moving and acting through time.  Nothing gets written down on paper without first visualizing a block-buster movie from beginning to end.  Maybe that’s why this author has no rivals.  No story gets written without first being envisioned as a major [...]
• : What To Do When You’ve Lost All Hope - Belief Changers
  I know of someone who lives life by way of retreating.  I mean, going into a cave and not coming out type of retreating.  Run over by an overwhelming world; disconnected from family and friends; Christian, but more comfortable surrounded by a self-inflicted darkness than living in the Light that entered into the world. Existing, [...]