Discipline is hard. Habits are easy. Most of our lives are lived from engrained habits, good or bad. The way you brush your teeth is the same, every time. You don’t have to think – you just do it. Washing your hair, zipping up your jacket, making the bed, accelerating your car when you see a yellow light, these all happen instinctively and easily. Try this experiment tonight. Brush your teeth with your opposite hand. It is so awkward and difficult. Why? It is not a habit. Dis

In previous posts, we focused on navigating the confusing and conflicting messages regarding our health and we explored what it means to embrace our health and lifestyle choices as a joyful response to our Creator. When we allow our health to be formed as a part of our spiritual journey our results will be dramatically different. How do I know this to be true? He knows us. He created us. A few weeks ago, I was running a race in the mountains of Idaho. It was very remote, very

Recently, a Pastor emailed me to find “the guy” writing the downloads on the Health Project website. He said, “I needed to contact you and tell you that I repent. I repent of not being obedient to God for my physical health. I have led poorly and am a terrible example to my wife and family. I repent, and I am beginning to change. Thanks for helping me on my journey.” Have you considered your physical health as a spiritual discipline and an obedient response to God? “True nort

It was a warm summer evening when 8 of us found ourselves sailing off the coast of Vancouver Island in the middle of the night. Intentionally, one of our group members was our instructor, attempting to teach us how to navigate in diverse conditions. On this particular night, in the blackness, we couldn’t tell the ocean’s ending from land’s beginning. We had to sail our vessel between rocks hidden below the waterline and into a bay with no visual clues of the potential dangers