Spending two days in the hills of Smoky Mountain National Park with your two boys is great for your spiritual, emotional and physical health. It is an especially sweet thing when it's a day before your birthday! Danny, my younger son, drove up from Savannah, Ga. to join Drew, … [Read more...]
Stripping Off Weight & Endurance – Weekly Faith and Health Scripture – Hebrews 12:1-3
As we enter into the last week of the 2008 Olympics I thought I'd make another post about the connection between sports, athletic performance and faith. Hebrews 12 begins, "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that … [Read more...]
Olympic Athletes of Faith
We're about half way through the Olympics and I don't know about you but my competitive juices begin to stir up from my old distance running days. I just wish there were more live finals televised of more of the running events. I've come across a few web sites that have listed … [Read more...]
Exercise, God & Your Heart – Weekly Faith and Health Scripture – Psalm 119:32
We all know that exercise is good for the heart. Aerobic exercise, the kind that causes the heart rate to rise and stay at an elevated level for a period of time, is most beneficial for the cardiovascular system. I've been a runner for over 44 years. During that time my heart and … [Read more...]
High Jumper – Adriane Stone
A few weeks ago I posted an entry about Adriane who was jumping in the Olympic Trials High Jump and asked for prayers. How did she do? On the 4th of July she jumped 6' 1/2", her best ever and tied for 8th place. A video of her jump is at this post on her blog. She communicated … [Read more...]
Spiritual Exercise – Weekly Faith and Health Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:7-8
Most of us can imagine what a typical physical workout might look like. We'd first stretch a little to warm up the muscles we would be using in the rest of our session. Then there would be some type of cardiovascular or aerobic workout - repeated, nonstop contractions of a major … [Read more...]
