Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation
Welcome to the new season of the podcast, now titled "Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation"!
Join your host, Pastor Robert Young, as we embark on a journey of spiritual exploration and renewal. This podcast is designed to help you deepen your faith and find inner peace through calming, reflective, and transformative meditative practices inspired by scripture.
Our Evolution
While the podcast, formerly known as Not Your Parent's Religion, focused in Seasons 1 and 2 on correcting misinformation and myths about religious beliefs and the teaching of Jesus Christ, the program has evolved. In Season 3, we began drawing closer to God with guided meditations, exploring all the details of why and how to meditate, and discussing the Biblical origins of Christian meditations.
With over 30 years of experience in Church planting and mentoring other Pastors, and 30+ years of training leaders in evangelism/discipleship, Pastor Young is here to guide you through these moments of stillness and connection with God.
What to Expect in Season 4
We are excited to return with Season 4 starting Sunday, October 5. We will continue to offer a structured weekly schedule:
- Sundays: Our weekly guided meditation episode.
- Monday through Friday: Daily devotions and reflections that expand on the topic of the Sunday meditations.
- Wednesdays: Audio episodes of our House Church series. This series reflects the Bible's teaching that believers should gather together for corporate worship, fellowship, encouragement, and even admonishment.
For those seeking an enhanced experience, we are adding video versions of the meditations and devotions to our Patreon page. These videos are designed to give you a more immersive experience as you meditate on the Father, His teachings, and His presence.
Tune in each week as we lead you on this path to connecting more deeply with God.
Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation
Renew Your Mind Day 12 | New Standard of Thinking
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What if the pressure to fit in is the very thing stealing your clarity, peace, and purpose? We open Romans 12:2 and get practical about resisting conformity and embracing genuine transformation by the renewal of your mind. This isn’t about withdrawing from the world or chasing perfection—it’s about learning to test and discern what is good, acceptable, and perfect, then living proof that God’s way actually works.
We walk through how culture shapes us through repetition, reward, and story—especially in media, entertainment, and everyday conversations. Then we flip the script with kingdom habits: curating inputs, meditating on Scripture, and using identity-based affirmations to retrain your inner dialogue. You’ll hear simple prompts to evaluate what you’re consuming, questions that expose subtle compromises, and a framework for replacing them with practices that form a resilient, Christ-centered mind.
Identity stands at the center of this journey. When you stop seeing yourself as a copy of the culture and start living as a child of the King, choices shift. We model short, memorable affirmations that anchor you in that truth and invite you to speak them aloud: I am not a copy of the culture. I am a child of the King. I choose to renew my mind daily. By the end, you’ll have a clear set of steps to align your thoughts with heaven’s reality, along with the courage to test and prove God’s will in the details of your week.
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Scripture And Core Message
Pastor Robert YoungToday's scripture is coming from the book of Romans, chapter 12, verse 2. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. The world exerts a constant pressure to mold you into its shape, to think, look, and act like everyone else. The kingdom standards requires metamorphosis. We cannot live by kingdom standards if we still have a worldly mindset. We must renew our minds, rewriting the scripts of culture with the scripts of scripture. This is the only way to prove that God's way actually works. Our questions for reflection. What media, entertainment, or conversations are you consuming that might be conforming you to the world's way of thinking? two. What is one specific truth you need to meditate on to renew your mind regarding your identity? Repeat this affirmation with me now. I am not a copy of the culture. I am a child of the king. I choose to renew my mind daily, aligning my thoughts with heaven's reality.