How This One Change May Be The Key To You Flourishing Spiritually

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dr. Greg Gifford explores the unseen influence your surroundings have on your spiritual life. Drawing from biblical narratives and modern examples, he highlights why changing your environment could be the key to personal growth. This lesson will challenge you to assess your culture, media, friendships, and church through a gospel lens. Transformed Podcast Episode 150 | November 20, 2025 ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0	What is? What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.9	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.4	God replaced all my junk with, with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.8	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.3	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's University
0:30.4	and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Okay, welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. I am your host. And before we
0:43.4	dive in, just a quick reminder, if you're listening on Apple, Spotify, or Amazon, hit that
0:49.0	follow button so you don't miss future episodes. It also helps other people find this particular podcast episode, but also the overall series.
0:59.7	So some of you have been Transformers for some time, and it's been so beautiful to get to hear from you.
1:06.0	You're writing in about counseling questions, family worship, all that stuff.
1:10.5	So you'll know today is my first episode in a new studio.
1:17.1	I would like to thank Fortis for setting me up.
1:20.7	We partner with Master's University, and Fortis has actually given me a private studio that will in the future have video.
1:31.2	Oh yeah. So you will all be forced to look at me, which I apologize for in advance.
1:36.2	So again, welcome back. Let me know what you think about the new setup. There's actually some
1:41.5	fun features that I'm going to incorporate. You know, you can do like sound effects and stuff. So there's no stopping me now. All my homeschool years are actually
1:48.6	coming back to benefit me. So thank you, me ma. All right, today actually is it really,
1:55.5	this is a fascinating topic to me. Let's talk about your environment. Your environment and the way that your environment
2:03.4	shapes you. So think of your environment. What am I talking about in general? Well, I'm talking
2:10.2	about the surroundings or the conditions in which a person, an animal, or a plant lives or operates. That just simply comes from Google definitions.
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