Mind Games | Part 3 | Joel Thomas

Main message: The sermon concludes the Mind Games series by urging listeners to recognize that feelings aren’t always facts and to pursue transformation through the renewing of the mind (Romans 12), intentionally replacing lies with repeated truths so that both brain and life are changed.

Key points:

• Feelings are important indicators but not objective facts; strong emotions can be true to you yet untrue about reality.
• Romans 12:1–2 calls followers to offer their lives as living sacrifice and be transformed by renewing the mind rather than conforming to the world.
• Science (neuroplasticity and neurogenesis) shows repeated thoughts physically shape the brain, so what you rehearse matters.
• We either drift and get conformed by default (confirmation bias, social media loops) or we choose to be deliberate and practice truth.
• Practical step: identify a specific lie you believe, write a countering truth (the speaker carried a 3x5 card for 90 days), rehearse it, and seek community/prayer to support change.

Scriptures mentioned: Romans 12:1-2, 1 Thessalonians 5, Galatians 6