All-or-Nothing Thinking in Habit Change
All-or-Nothing thinking can be disastrous to your habit change efforts. If you get stuck into that kind of thinking pattern you will end up failing with your habit change.
Continue reading →Ways to Use Coconut Oil in Cooking
Coconut oil is almost becoming the new “wonder” food. If you don’t know why coconut oil is a good fat, check out this article from The Weston Price Foundation, http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats/541-new-look-at-coconut-oil.html. While you’re there, check out some of their other articles, too—fascinating information. Here’s another article, about how coconut oil is good for weight loss, www.coconutoil.com/weight_loss.htm.
Now that you know how and why coconut oil is good for you, here are some ways to incorporate it into your everyday cooking and eating. If you are not in the habit of ingesting coconut oil, please do not take more than 1T. to start with.
Continue reading →The title of the book was just as intriguing as the subtitle and topic of it —wrestling with the gray areas of life. It addressed, from a biblical point of view, those areas of life that are not directly addressed by scripture, such as social drinking, social media, and others. It even tackled the controversial subject of homosexuality, not just whether it was right or wrong, but also what our response should be to those involved in it.
Continue reading →11 Ways to Help Your Fellow Man in 2011
There are three basic ways to help other people—with your prayers, with your money and with your time and effort. The following list is not all-inclusive but I hope it will give you some good ideas on how to help your fellow man in 2011.
1. Find a missionary to support with your prayers and money.
2. Go on a mission trip yourself. Your presence does make a difference.
Continue reading →If you are reading this, you already know how important it is to eat more fruits and vegetables. You already know to eat more salad (but try some new vegetables, and new dressing and add fruit to your veggie salads). You already know to eat fresh fruit and cut up vegetables for snacks.
Continue reading →Here’s a list of Christian resources to help you fulfill your New Year’s Resolutions, organized by topic.
Continue reading →The Shadowed Mind by Julie Cave
Although, The Shadowed Mind is the second in The Dinah Harris Mystery triology series, it was more than adequate as a stand-alone story by itself. If I was missing anything important by not reading the first in the series before reading this one, I couldn’t tell.
All of the plots and subplots revolved around the topics of eugenics, euthanasia, evolution vs. creation and ultimately the value of human life. What could have been a boring litany of detailed lectures was excellently crafted into an extremely interesting mystery. Even some of the subplots had their own mystery attached to them.
Continue reading →Do you eat to work or do you work to eat? You could be doing both, but one thing is for sure, if you are able to work and you aren’t, then you shouldn’t be eating. I’m not talking about being laid off, that’s different. Besides, it’s not my idea anyway. It’s God’s.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that it any would not work, neither should he eat. 2 Thess. 3:10 KJV
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