Think about healthy relationships with people; these relationships aren’t healthy because they follow certain rules (as if the rules were the reason), but livin...
For better or worse our bodies are remarkably adaptive. When we abuse our bodies, through over-eating or restriction, our body adapts to the “new normal” we inf...
My mama, Vera, has advanced Alzheimer’s. The doctor recently confirmed my suspicion that she also has Parkinson’s. This means Momma deals with a great deal of c...
Read Psalm 139. First read verses 14-16 and then read the entirety of the Psalm. God has a very different relationship with your body than you do. God sees your...
Matt Keller, author of The Up the Middle Church, blogged on the subject of "margin drains." He identified four deadly margin drains:
1. Violating the...
We are often poor listeners because we think of listening as merely hearing and retaining information. In a day of information overload, the significance of lis...
What does it mean to be “emotionally mature?” To some it would mean being stoic – having mastery of your emotions so that you felt only what you wanted to when ...
Burnout is never caused by a single area of life. Burnout is a function of our total life management. One area of life cannot get out of order without overt cho...
Anger is not something we can avoid. It is something that we must do well. But few know what “righteous anger” would look like.
Below are seven test questio...
If this entire journey could be reduced to a single step, it would be this – be honest. Honesty may be more difficult than sobriety. At the risk of being offens...
Good physical health does not happen by accident. Physically healthy people make small, daily choices that contribute to their physical health.
It should be ...
“My abortion was far more traumatic than the rape, Sydna,” the young woman shared during an abortion recovery program I was leading. “Why didn’t any...
