Healthy Truth #3 – Contentment
Truth #3 – My contentment will not derive from numbers or my appearance. This is a tough one, but it’s so crucial that much of the Bible teaches on it. Let’s [...]
Health & Fitness
Ageism in Reverse
I’ll never forget that day. I was speaking with a guy who was proudly accounting the details of his efforts to lose weight. We’d just met, so he had no idea that [...]
Healthy Truth #10 – Popular Culture
Truth #10 – Popular culture is a fickle bitch. I apologize if my word choice offends you, but frankly the subject matter offends me. I don’t generally use such [...]
Healthy Truth #7 – The Funhouse Mirror
Truth #7 – My weight is a funhouse mirror. One of the biggest things I struggle with as a personal trainer is helping people end the love/hate affair that is their [...]
Healthy Truth – Introduction
If you're going to give fitness a go this year, it's time to internalize some basic healthy truths. [...]
Korean Cucumbers — Rejecting the Unique Beauty in Us All
I have long been frustrated by how marketers are able to foster a cruel, seemingly counterintuitive combination of vanity and self-loathing that sells products. I hate it [...]
Healthy Truth #1 – Created to Be Me
Truth #1 – I was created to be me and no one else. Read Psalm 139:13-16 (NIV) and ponder your Creator and His creation: For you created my inmost being; you knit me [...]
Healthy Truth #6 – A Healthy Goal
Truth #6 – Health is my most healthy goal. In a letter to his pupil, the apostle Paul offered some insight into the nature of health (1 Timothy 4:8, NIV): For physical [...]
Healthy Truth #5 – Lifestyle
Truth #5 – My lifestyle will result in health or unhealth. Paul instructed the church in Rome about the lifestyle they should lead in Romans 12:1a (NIV): Offer your bodies [...]
Healthy Truth #9 – Investment Strategies
Truth #9 – Fitness is a long-term investment. In Habakkuk 3:19a-c (NIV), the prophet said: The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes me feel like the feet of a deer, he [...]
Healthy Truth #8 – Here and Now
Truth #8 – My past is past; my now is discipline; my future doesn’t exist. The words of Jesus in Matthew 6:34 reinforce a reality we all know, at least [...]
Healthy Truth #11 – Accountability
Truth #11 – Accountability cannot force me; it can only reinforce me. In Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia, he followed up on his instructions to carry each [...]
Healthy Truth #4 – Workmanship
Truth #4 – I am a workmanship in the image of God. Read these verses and meditate on them. Genesis 1:27 (NIV)… So God created mankind in his own image, in the image [...]
Healthy Truth #12 – Pressure
Truth #12 – Pressure can be productive, but stress is a murderer. In Matthew 6:26, Jesus hinted at this truth (NIV): Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to [...]
Healthy Truth #2 – Responsibility to Change
Truth #2 – Only I can change me; I can only change me. And only with God’s help. Note how Paul instructed the Romans in 12:2b (NIV): Be transformed by the renewing of [...]
Exercise Together
Assuming a husband and wife both routinely exercise — and that’s a big assumption in modern America — there’s something highly valuable about exercising [...]