Each area impacts every other area. 

It’s important to deal with your physical body (purpose), your mental & emotional health (freedom), and your spiritual health (grace).

They’re all important.

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Here’s an analogy...

A chain is only as strong as the weakest link. Doesn’t matter how great the capacity of one link is if another flounders with minimal pressure.

We’re the same way.

If our bodies aren’t healthy, we won’t be able to do the amazing things placed in our souls- we won’t be able to live our calling and fulfill our destiny.

If our minds are occupied with worries and fears… it can debilitate our bodies…

And if our emotions aren’t whole… they can shut the other areas down, too….

Total health = addressing it all, in time.

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Start with the area that stands out the most to you and go from there.

If you're looking for a great beginning point, the Freedom March self-study touches all three areas.

Yes and no...

In the same each part of your body "works" together (i.e, what good is an eye without a head? and what good would it be if your entire body was just legs and no arms)... each part-- body, soul, and spirit-- interact with each other. 

So... 

💙 Encounter grace (spiritual health)

💜 Walk in freedom (soul wholeness)

💚 Live it out in the real world, as you express the purpose for which you were created (body)

I grew up in the church. Then, later after attending seminary (Masters in Divinity), I taught most Sunday evenings in a church that met in a renovated warehouse...

This is where I began to encounter purpose. 

We taught through the Bible, verse-by-verse. This gave me the opportunity to crash into some verses I probably wouldn't have gone to, initially...

This is where I started encountered grace at a level I had not before.

Later, I worked in addiction recovery. We assisted men, women, and families coming out of prison, off the city's streets, and away from their hold habits & hangups. 

That added the freedom component. 

I also walked through an extremely tough season of life after this. Throughout that experience I began pulling the pieces together. And, learned so much from others in the process.

After that I had the opportunity to work with an organization that serves veterans for 7+ years. During that season I co-wrote several books on military-related trauma, taught several courses and podcasts, and hosted live workshops on the subjects I write & teach about. 

I went to Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary... so, I formally I have a Master's of Divinity. 

Informally, I attended the "school of hard knocks" as I worked through some of my own baggage and bad behaviors while also helping 1,000+ overcome their addictions. 

I am not a licensed counselor, a PhD, or a PsyD.

I've been overwhelmed by grace, I've seen it's relevance to every area of life-- and seen that grace not only forgives our sins it also empowers us in the present.

Grace question...

Short answer: BOTH

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Long answer...

Somebody asked me a few weeks ago, “Why do you teach natural health?”

And, “Why teach practical stuff alongside the spiritual…?”

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By that, they meant something like this: “You teach grace and healing… why do we need natural health if we have supernatural power available to us?”

It’s a great question. 

The sarcastic reply would be, “Why do you need doctors and Western medicine if we have supernatural power available? Whereas ‘church people’ seem hesitant to venture into the natural health waters for fear that they’ll contract ‘new age’ demons, few of them give a second thought about rushing to the doc in the box, big pharma, or invasive surgeries…”

Why do you need THAT if you have supernatural power?

The honest reply, though, the sincere one that penetrates the heart… and loves deeply… and is THE RIGHT answer (I believe) is multifaceted:

👉 First, we have far more control over our health than we’ve been taught. We’re not victims of the genome- as if some of us got a good shake at the DNA-lottery and others of us didn’t. Science is showing, more and more, that we have far more power than we thought.

👉 Second, Jesus taught- and empowered His disciples- with natural health info. In other words, natural health isn’t a new idea; it’s been around a long, long time. 

👉 Third, according to the New Testament, natural health is as much a part of what Jesus came to do as supernatural healing.

I know. That last one sounds odd. And I’ll have to back it up…

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You see, every day we have the power to “choose life.” With our words. In our finances. In our relationships. In how we respond to various situations. And in our health… 

We see two different words for healing in the New Testament, predominantly…

Understanding why different are words used is important as we begin a healing ministry- or even as we seek healing.

👉 Iaomai- means “miraculous” and “instantaneous” healing. This is how we most often envision Jesus healing, though this word only appears 30 times in the New Testament. (See examples in Matthew 8:13, Mark 5:29, Luke 8:47, John 12:40.)

👉 Therapeuo- means “to serve, to attend to, or to wait upon menially” and “to heal gradually over time with care.” This word appears 40 times in the Bible- a bit more than the instant cures we usually associate with miracles. (Matthew 4:23-24, Mark 1:34, Mark 6:13, Luke 5:15, Acts 5:16, Acts 8:7, Revelation 22:2.)

And…

… these work for emotional wholeness as well as physical health.

I teach BOTH "kinds" of healing in The Healing Workshop.

Yes. The Advance events were instrumental in this...

As men began making goals in every area of life (for their family, their faith, their work, their health, etc.), we realized we needed a resource to help them organize it all and manage the "daily grind" of walking out the life they were created to live...

The planner is a practical tool to manage your purpose and all of the important elements of it.

Abraham Lincoln famously said, “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

If you’ve got a plan, that’s a GREAT thing— we can manage each day, on its own terms, in succession.

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If you don’t have a plan, well… the time still passes.

But, rather than stewarding that time and telling it what to do— in the same way you can leverage the power of a budget and allocate financial resources in specific ways— the time just… evaporates.

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The best solution… is to find a plan that works for you— one that helps you move from where you are to where you’re designed to be.

In other words, a planner is ultimately an issue of stewardship-- not just begin stringent.

It depends on how much "help" and interaction you would like.

👉 Content like books and courses enable you to grab the info and implement it yourself. 

👉 Coaching equips you with 1:1 time whereby I help you implement what you're learning in practical ways.

👉 You can also take this further by inviting me to train your team, speak at your events, etc.