Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, whatever time you are listening to the morning mindset, I am glad you're here.

My name is Carrie Green, I am a retired pastor who now is doing some online business stuff,

but I also care deeply that my brothers and sisters in Christ are able to live each day in a way that brings not only hope and joy to their own lives,

but brings great glory and honor to their God and Savior Jesus Christ.

So that's why I published this morning mindset.

You see a little while back, I began to realize that how we are thinking,

first thing in the day when our feet hit the floor after a good night's rest is going

to determine much of how we handle that day. And so a morning mindset or a first five minute mindset is really essential for us to get

into the habit get into the discipline of thinking rightly each and every day.

I've been doing that most recently by helping us think through some of the Psalms.

I'm looking at Psalm chapter 14 today.

And it begins with a statement that is very relevant for our day and age.

I think you'll immediately recognize that. It begins this way.

The fool says in his heart, there is no God.

Let's stop for a second.

We have this thing of kind of a renewed emphasis on atheism that's going on in our culture these days.

A belief that there is no God. You hear it in all kinds of podcasts these days, in

evolutionary speak.

You hear it in different worldviews on the news

where people just assume everything is about natural selection,

everything's about evolution,

everything's about the development of species rather than the reality that there is a

...