Faith in Five | Weekly Video Devotional

MMMMM...Food. So much of our lives are centered around food. We gather to eat, we schedule around it, we make lists of favorite places in favorite cities, and spend hours making food. Food is awesome, except when it’s not. Sometimes food can control us. To be honest, its not just food. We tend to get hyper focused and even sometimes somewhat addicted to some of life’s pleasures. It’s true that too much of a good thing can be bad for us...Food, coffee, social media, hobb

Can you name the best book you’ve ever read? The national bestseller list is always changing and evolving and now it has a long list of categories that give more and more books chances to make the list. It’s clear that books are valuable and that people are reading them regularly. Interestingly enough, a recent study in the US revealed that the number one most significant catalyst for spiritual growth is reading the Bible. Reading the Bible outranked all other practices in

When scheduling our physical training workouts we often skip the rest day and the cool down. We account for the 30 minutes of cardio, but not the 5 min of cool down. When we are trying to get in shape we would like to think that we can hit it hard 7 days per week and accelerate our progress, but our bodies don’t work that way. The unique thing is our brains, our bodies, our souls are all wired similarly...we need to intentionally engage them to keep them in shape, but we a

The beginning of a new year is always full of newfound ambition. While it’s somewhat cliche to plan to hit the gym more THIS year, we can’t help ourselves but to set some physical training goals year after year. The problem is that getting in physical shape takes more than a few visits to the gym. It takes a longer term commitment and habit shifts that are greater than just trying harder or doing more. Training takes consistent effort in a well-rounded set of habits. If