This post is intended for the person who is struggling with an aspect of life on their own, apart from a relationship with God, and his Son, Jesus. Sin and Its Impact on Our Life The reason that there is death, emotional pain, addiction, chronic emotional eating, despair, … [Read more...]
The Wellness Revelation Book Review – Week 2
This post of Alisa Keeton’s new book, The Wellness Revelation – Lose What Weighs You Down So You Can Love God, Yourself and Others, is a review of Week 2, Be Free. Week two is about addressing the deep issues of the heart on the inside - the broken places – that might keep a … [Read more...]
How Are You Trying To Meet Your Deep Spiritual Needs?
The account of the woman at the well in John 4 is a beautiful story of how Jesus desires to meet our deepest needs. (Now, if you're a man, don't stop here because this story is about a woman. It applies to all of us!) If we are not allowing Jesus to meet our deepest needs on … [Read more...]
Strip Off Your ‘Weight’ – Hebrews 12:1-2 – Weekly Health Devotional
Because I have a fitness background - professionally as well as personally - I have long-enjoyed the following verse: Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin … [Read more...]
Your Deepest Spiritual Needs – Are They Satisfied? John 6
In John, Chapter six, we read how Jesus feeds five thousand people with five small loaves of bread and two fish - one of his many miracles. Then Jesus went across a lake to a mountainside to rest. The next day, some people of the crowd, that he fed, found him. Jesus told them … [Read more...]
Behavior Change. How Reckoning to Be Dead to Sin Can Help
It's now been three weeks - 21 days since I've used sugar in my coffee. I made this decision to stop using sugar on December 31st and captured my rational in this blog post - Sin, Self Control and Greater Satisfaction in God – My Battle with Sugar It hasn't been all that … [Read more...]
