This week I (finally) clarified the next fitness routine (for me), helped launch a new podcast, and received tracking info for the #OolaBus.

Oh….

… and, bigger than that, Beth and I...

God gave us the ability to guard our hearts— not so we would hide them forever, but so that we could deal with pain and protect ourselves from harm in healthy ways (see Proverbs 4:23). Of...

Mini thinks I’m out of shape, Salter unknowingly dresses like Karate Kid’s “Johnny” for Halloween…

… that, and more, made the Top 7 for this past week.

(I...

I learned this from the “raw talk” during one of our Centers of Hope meetings…

What does it mean to be “triggered” by your emotions?

Here’s our unofficial...

The weekend (as I'm writing this, Sunday afternoon) means it’s time for the Top 7— my highlights from the previous week.

Even though we’re in a digital world, I actually use pen...

We don’t need to be “afraid” of the “bad” emotions. The truth is that, even if our hearts can lead us astray (such that we don’t to be controlled by them), it is...

This past week we returned from an out of town trip, I started a new fitness challenge, and pulled together a few work projects…

This is the Top 7 for last week. Every Sunday afternoon I sit...

I was listening to the radio the other day and heard the mantra in the lyrics of yet another song, “Fear is a liar…”

Then someone posted a meme on Instagram, saying the same...

This week's Top 7 includes the long run, fall break, and a new online group coaching opportunity...

Fitness = The long run, through the flooded golf course…

This week, I realized one...

Pain isn’t the enemy emotionally anymore than it is physically. Most of us do our best to avoid emotional pain. We bury it. We explain it away.

Think about the necessity of physical pain,...

The top 7 for the past week includes 2 book drafts, back to the Beachbody t25 workout plan, and more…

(Every Sunday, I review the previous week as I preview the upcoming one. I look back at...

People often have more confidence in the devil's ability to deceive-- and in the innate drive to sin-- than they do in the fact that we're created in the image of God, and we've been resurrected...