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April 20, 2022
How to Stop Eating So Much on Vacation with Stacie
Do you struggle with vacation eating? Are you quick to throw all of your boundaries out as soon as you head out of town? Upon returning home, are you filled with remorse and find it difficult to return to healthful eating? In this coaching interview with Stacie, we’ll discuss how to control vacation eating. (Find the links to listen down below.)
April 6, 2022
Joshua Becker: Overcoming Distractions to Live a More Meaningful Life
In Joshua Becker’s new book, Things that Matter, he talks about eight common distractions that keep us from living a meaningful life. Joshua Becker is a former pastor and the founder of the influential Becoming Minimalist blog, where he has been helping millions find more by owning less for the last 15 years. On today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast (links below), I visit with Joshua about two of those distractions—the pursuit of leisure and the pursuit of happiness.
March 21, 2022
When You Can’t Make Yourself Read Your Bible – 9 Tips
Do you ever have a hard time making yourself read your Bible? Or do you start out reading, only to find yourself reading the same passage over and over again because you can’t make yourself concentrate?
I spent twenty years of my Christian life struggling to have a daily quiet time. I’d do fine when I was in a church Bible study but when I was on my own, I just didn’t have the discipline to read my Bible. And even with church studies, you’d often find me rushing through all the lessons one hour...
March 16, 2022
How to Maintain Your Weight with Michelle
Do you find it challenging to maintain your weight after weight loss? Are you experiencing difficulty knowing what new boundaries to set for maintenance? Are you struggling with different lies than you did while losing weight? If you answered yes to any of these questions, today’s episode (links down below) with Michelle will be tremendously helpful!
March 14, 2022
Letting Go of Anger and Annoyance – James Bible Study Sneak Peak
Do you ever yell at your kids, then regret it later? Is there a person in your life who just bugs you to no end? When things don’t go your way, do you get irritated? Do you live in resentment in any of your relationships? Have you ever experienced road rage? Or road annoyance? My guess is that if you’re still alive and kicking, you’ve experienced some of these things.
I used to live in annoyance. I was that person who would get easily annoyed with everyone. People didn’t necessarily know that b...
March 12, 2022
Sneak Peak of James Bible Study: Overcoming Temptation
Do you ever feel that if you could just get that one temptation under control, life would be good? I used to feel that way with food. But then I did get that temptation under control—and discovered that wasn’t my only temptation!
The sad fact of life is that we will struggle with temptation until the day we die. Even Jesus dealt with temptation! In Matthew 4:1-11, we see Jesus being tempted in the desert. Each time He was tempted, He answered back with Scripture. The Bible can also help us ov...
March 2, 2022
How to Navigate Life Change (Even if You’re Not Crazy about the New Life)
Are you in the middle of a big life change? Or still adjusting to an old life change? Change can be difficult, even when it’s positive. Yet so many life changes don’t feel one bit positive. Here are just a few of the life changes we go through:
A moveChange of occupation: new job, loss of old job, career change, beginning college, etc.Engagement or marriageDivorce or separationNatural disasters and pandemics such as CovidDeath of a loved oneSerious illness, disease, or injuryChildren le...February 16, 2022
How to Stop Sugar Cravings by Katrina Sequenzia
Are you obsessed with sugar? Do you feel hopelessly addicted? Or do you just crave it at times? Enough to disrupt your boundaries and keep you from breaking free from the control of food? In this post, we’ll talk about how to stop sugar cravings. Katrina Sequenzia wrote this post and is also my guest on Taste for Truth Podcast (keep scrolling to see links). Katrina will discuss nine reasons we crave sugar and seven habits that will help you stop sugar cravings.
February 2, 2022
How to Avoid (or End) an Emotional Affair
If you’ve been married a long time, chances are good you’ve been attracted to someone at some time or another. In today’s podcast, I’ll be visiting with my friend Trish about how to keep that initial attraction from morphing into something that could potentially hurt your marriage, your family, your community, and yourself! We’ll be discussing how to avoid (or end) an emotional affair.
January 19, 2022
Are You Tired of the Struggle to be Healthy? – 5 Tips
It’s January 19th, and many of us have already given up on our commitment to “Be Healthy This Year!!!!” It’s not that we don’t want to be healthy. We do! We’re just demoralized by the constant failures that go along with working on a be healthy habit.
So what do we do to get out of that slump? Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and make a commitment to try again tomorrow? I don’t think so; I used to do that all the time and it didn’t work. I didn’t have enough self-control to make myself do ...
