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When Your Husband is Passive (6 Questions to Ask Yourself)

You guys know I love questions, so when I received a newsletter from Ngina Otiende’s blog with some great marriage questions on it, I asked her if she’d like to put this on my blog as a guest post as well. These questions are great for when your husband is passive, but I think they’re also helpful no matter what type of a person you’re married to. Let’s get to the post!

When Your Husband is Passive (6 Questions to Ask Yourself)

by Ngina Otiende

As a marriage coach, one of the areas that come up...

Secrets to Self-Control with Drew Dyck

Do you wonder if there really are secrets to self-control? Do you feel like you’re stuck and just need to live with it? In today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, Secrets to Self-Control with Drew Dyck, I visit with Drew about his book, Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science. 

Drew gives us some great tips on how to preserve willpower and strengthen self-control even after failing at it over and over again. You’ll find hope for the bat...

Lies That Keep Us from Exercising with Jessica Hottle



Do you have a hard time making yourself exercise? Or do you ever find yourself becoming obsessed with exercise? In today’s podcast, Jessica Hottle shares three lies that keep us from exercising and the truth that will help us want to exercise.

Jessica also talks about the problem of putting too much importance on exercise and appearance and how God can help us change no matter what side of the spectrum we lean toward.

Jessica Hottle is a successful online entrepreneur and author of two best-s...

How to Mend a Broken Relationship with Blythe Daniel and Helen McIntosh

Are you struggling in one of your relationships? It could be a friend, an adult child, a sibling or parent, or even a spouse. In today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, I visit with Blythe Daniel and Dr. Helen McIntosh about how to mend a broken relationship.

Helen and Blythe are a mother-daughter team who coauthored the book, Mended: Restoring the Hearts of Mothers and Daughters. Although the book is directed toward mother and daughter relationships, they offer all kinds of tips to me...

How to Stop Entitlement Eating – 9 Steps



Do you ever think, I should be able to eat what I want when I want? And then become unhappy when eating what-you-want-when-you-want leads to unpleasant consequences such as weight gain, clothes that don’t fit, feeling crummy, and health consequences? In today’s podcast and blog post, we’ll talk about how to stop entitlement eating so you can lose weight and keep it off, but the tips and truths will also help you break any habit.

Examples of Entitlement Thinking

Note: I’ll list the truths for ...

Spiritual Attack: 10 Tips for Spiritual Warfare

When I first started writing, I noticed that I’d often get attacked at different stages of the process–especially when I was beginning something new. I’ve since studied spiritual attack and discovered there are many things we can do to be successful in spiritual warfare.

Examples of Spiritual Attack in the Bible

There ar...

Raising Healthy Kids, Tired Eating, Depression Eating, and More

In this episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast, I go back to the old “Ask Barb” format of some of the podcasts a few years ago. This is an episode I found in the archives that I hadn’t ever posted. Here are a few of the things we talked about on the podcast.

Questions We Talked About:

How to choose weight loss boundaries
Which weight loss Bible study to do first: Taste for Truth or Freedom from Emotional Eating
Beating yourselves up and feeling guilty about eating too much
Feeling depressed ab...

Building Racial Unity – A Conversation between Friends with Ngina Otiende

Have you ever been hurt by prejudice? Or have you watched others dealing with prejudice and wondered how you can help? On today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, I visit with my friend Ngina Otiende about how to heal and help.

Ngina and her husband moved to the United States from Kenya nine years ago, so they’ve experienced life as both a majority and a minority. On the podcast, we’ll visit about some of the differences between living life as a majority and a minority, plus talk about ...

How to Renew Consistently with Jamila

Do you ever have a hard time making yourself renew your mind? Maybe you’ve found that truth journaling or doing the I Deserve a Donut questions works, but you just can’t make yourself do it. Or you’re willing to do it, but can’t remember to do it. In today’s episode of the Taste for Truth Podcast, I’ll be coaching Jamila about how to renew consistently.

We’ll talk about what renewing looks like and how to do it in less than five minutes.

Other Things We Talked About:

How perfectionism gets in ...

Allen Arnold: Life with God vs. Life for God

Do you ever find yourself going about your daily work and not remembering God is there? I do sometimes. It’s easy to do when we get busy. On today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, Allen Arnold talks about how to do life with God–remembering Him throughout the day and visiting with Him about life and work.

When we visit with God throughout the day, life goes much better. First, He helps us to do things we can’t do in our own strength. Second, we enjoy life more. And finally, we grow cl...