The Best Prefix Ever
Brian explores how hidden fatalistic ideas shape modern Christianity and quietly work against deep discipleship. Drawing from Plato, Dallas Willard, and the teachings of Jesus, this conversation examines fear, spiritual formation, the inward journey, and why Jesus is restoring all things—not abandoning them.
The Safety Dance
Brian explores why safety and trust are essential for spiritual formation and how experiencing God’s “withness” helps us begin the inward journey toward freedom and integration.
Like a Preacher Stealin’ Hearts at a Travellin’ Show
Brian explores how unconscious ideas and desires shape our lives, relationships, and discipleship. True spiritual formation leads to inner freedom through deeper awareness of God, ourselves, and the desires hidden beneath the surface.
A Dog’s Life
Brian explores how deep discipleship requires environments of kindness, authenticity, and safety where hidden ideas and desires can be transformed through relationship rather than information alone.
The Wonder Years
What if the problem with modern Christianity isn’t a lack of biblical information, but a loss of wonder? Deep discipleship is more than accumulating knowledge and doing more religious activity. It is the intimate, transforming adventure of knowing and being known by God.
The Like of God
Why do so many Christians encounter Jesus yet remain largely unchanged over time? Perhaps because transformation requires more than instruction, effort, or performance. It requires vulnerability — the risky experience of allowing ourselves to be fully seen and fully loved by God. Deep discipleship begins when we discover that God not only loves us. He likes us.
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs
What if your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and habits are all pointing to something deeper? In this article, Brian Fisher explores the Eight Indicators of the heart and why deep discipleship requires gentle self-awareness, spiritual formation, and intentional transformation from the inside out.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
What if the greatest obstacles to spiritual transformation lie beneath our conscious beliefs? In this article, Brian Fisher explores deep discipleship, the hidden operating system of the human heart, and why lasting character formation requires more than information alone. Through the concepts of Heartview, worldview, and the Eight Indicators, we begin uncovering the unconscious ideas and desires that shape our lives and relationships.
Number 5 is Alive
What if spiritual formation is less about information and more about transforming the hidden operating system of the heart? In this episode and article, Brian Fisher explores how unconscious ideas and desires shape our lives, why modern discipleship often fails to produce deep transformation, and how Jesus forms people through five essential elements: time, habits, community, intimacy, and instruction.
What Lies Beneath
Deep discipleship requires more than information and Bible knowledge. True spiritual formation explores the hidden ideas, desires, habits, and heart patterns shaping our character and relationships.