The Forward-Thinking Believer                     Spiritual Spanking EditionIn my most recent podcast “Radical Living” I discuss the importance of believers living a life that is so contrary to the world’s standards that we are seen as radicals. The world is looking for something radically different. Many are discovering that what the world has to offer simply is not enough and does not satisfy. B...  Read More

Pastor Jim had been preaching a sermon series on Dreams, focusing this on the story of Joseph in Genesis chapters 37-50. The begging questions posited in his series are, “What is your dream” and “How does it serve God by serving others?” During the sermon, he read an excerpt from Dr. Bruce Wilkinson’s Dream Giver. I felt a familiar nudge to buy that book. Initially, I thought to simply write down ...  Read More

After exercising for over a month, I was growing more and more excited about the muscles that were popping out and the new found shape my body was growing into. Finally, after having three babies, and almost twenty months after I had my last child, I was starting to feel and look better than I had in years! But there was one problem: while every other muscle was forming well, my abdominals were…we...  Read More

My husband would frustrate me so much regarding my health and exercise regime (or lack thereof). I have a close relationship with God, excited about my work for the Kingdom, I’m an active member of my church, and I love God with all of my heart…. good health is a guarantee, right? I’m young and at a healthy weight, so I felt no need to take supplements, eat extremely healthy, or exercise. Then the...  Read More

“The man of many friends [a friend of the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”                                                                                                    -Proverbs 18:24When I first moved to Arizona, I was so lonely. I was about twenty-seven years old and called my mom crying like a baby every night because I didn’...  Read More