Renewing Our Minds, Lives of Worship, and Abiding: How to End 2025 Well

In this special year-end episode of Life as Worship, Angela reflects on a hard stretch of years marked by grief, caregiving, big transitions, and unmet expectations—while also sharing the quiet, steady invitation God has been whispering to her heart: slow down and go back to what you already know. Rooted in Romans 12 and John 15, she unpacks why “rethinking my thinking” matters, what it means to live as a living sacrifice, and how abiding in Christ—rather than chasing new goals or slogans—is the way real transformation and a life of worship actually happen.

Episode Highlights

•  Honest admission that 2025 didn’t go as planned: delayed episodes, heavy caregiving for her dad, a daughter moving overseas, hard news and losses, and the emotional ups and downs that followed.
• Re-centering on Romans 12:1–2—offering our bodies as living sacrifices, resisting conformity to the age, and being transformed by the renewing of our minds so we can discern God’s good, pleasing, and perfect will.
• Why her ministry is called “Rethinking My Thinking” and how Life as Worship fits under that umbrella: letting God reshape how we see Him, ourselves, and the world.
• A reminder from Philippians to “live up to what we have already obtained” instead of constantly striving for the next thing, and an invitation to deepen what we already know to do.
• Reflection on John 15:5 and Jesus’ words, “apart from Me you can do nothing”—what it practically means to abide, rest, and stay connected to the Vine in everyday life.
• Encouragement that the Christian life is not about hyped-up self-talk or pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, but about remaining in Christ and letting Him bear fruit in and through us.
• A closing prayer over listeners’ new year: that 2026 would be marked by resting in the Lord, abiding in Him, renewed minds, and lives increasingly shaped as worship.

Great Quotes from the Episode

• “Too often we get ourselves so stuck in wanting to get better, we never celebrate where we are now.”
• “All of the mercies God has given us are worthy of living a life of worship, of living a life of sacrifice to the Lord.”
• “How is the best way to do that? It’s to not allow our minds to be conformed to culture or this age, but to be transformed.”
• “If we could just do the things that we know how to do… if we would just partner with the Spirit… our lives would be different.”
• “I’m not telling you to get a better mindset. I’m telling you: remain in Christ. Abide in Him.”
• “As we abide in you… it is you who will develop fruit in our lives—fruit that will glorify and honor you so that others will want to know you.”

Scriptures Mentioned

• Romans 12:1–2 
• Philippians 3:16 (paraphrased) 
• John 15:5 

Related Episodes

• Advent Week 1–4 (Hope, Peace, Joy, Love) – Foundational themes that flow into this call to live all of life as worship.
• Ep. 2 with Cally Logan – Walking by the Spirit
• Ep. 41 with Jackie Freeman – Strength When Our Souls Feel Weary
• Ep. 42 with Debora Coty – Peace that Passes Understanding

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