Faith Vs. Weight with Maria Bower
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Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As you know, this month on Pardon the Mess we’re doing a miniseries we’ve lovingly nicknamed “New Year, New You.” We’re tackling some of the messy areas in life that are often the basis of resolutions this time of year, like physical health, emotional health, and financial health.
This week we’re thrilled to have Maria Bower, author of Faith Vs. Weight, join us to discuss physical health and weight loss. Maria approaches nutrition from the perspective of how to best fuel our body to accomplish God’s kingdom work in our lives.
Discussing the “why” behind losing excess weight, Maria puts it this way:
"Like all other distractions from the devil, it is a problem that is stealing your energy from serving God, making you miserable in the process. It is time to reclaim your energy for His glory and serve His kingdom with love. This epidemic no longer needs to stop you and your family from reaching your full potential in Christ."
Maria has worked as a US Navy health care administrator and is a certified personal trainer. She’s funny, she’s direct, she’s passionate about our health, and she loves Jesus and approaches nutrition from a biblical perspective.
Food and dieting can consume our thoughts and be a tactic the enemy uses to distract us from God’s best in our lives. Let’s take a few minutes to consider God’s Word in this area and the steps we might take in 2020 to regain our energy for serving God and our families.
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Pardon the Mess. This is your host, Cynthia Yanov. Parenting can get |
| 0:09.9 | messy, and that's why we're glad you were with us. Each week, we have honest discussions with |
| 0:13.8 | our guests about the ups and downs of parenting and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. |
| 0:18.3 | It's fun, it's real, and it's biblical. We put our trust in a God who rescripts our mess into his greater message. That along the way. It's fun. It's real and it's biblical. We put our trust into God |
| 0:21.9 | who rescripts our mess into his greater message. That's the best parenting news we could ask for. |
| 0:26.8 | Join us each week on Pardon the Mess as we walk the parenting road together. I'm so glad you're |
| 0:31.6 | with us today on Part of the Mess. And if you listen to Luke Lizan last week, then you know we're doing a little mini series in January. |
| 0:38.2 | If you haven't listened, jump back and listen to him at some point. |
| 0:41.1 | He's really great. |
| 0:42.2 | But this January, we are doing a mini series, and we've lovingly called it New Year, New You. |
| 0:47.9 | And we're focusing on some of those areas of our life that may be a little bit of a mess, where we could use a little bit of tweaking. And sometimes when we make small little adjustments in areas of our life that may be a little bit of a mess where we could use a little bit of tweaking. And sometimes |
| 0:55.0 | when we make small little adjustments in areas of our life, we see big dividends, big changes. And so |
| 1:01.5 | that's kind of the prayer for this month. I know as a parent, it's easy to look past ourselves and |
| 1:07.4 | caring for ourselves well. But when we do that, especially the longer you've |
| 1:11.0 | parented, you realize when you really take care of yourself and you figure out where God's |
| 1:14.6 | working in your life and where you need to make adjustments, then it bleeds over naturally |
| 1:18.1 | for the better in your parenting. And so that's what we want to do in January. So we are |
| 1:22.7 | focusing on several different types of health because that's traditional January discussion. |
| 1:27.8 | But we want to talk about physical health, but also emotional health, financial health. |
| 1:32.6 | And we're also going to talk into marriage, especially as we get into February. |
| 1:36.2 | So this is going to be a fun series where we just look at some areas of our life that we can make some small changes for hopefully big differences. And this week, we are |
| 1:46.2 | going to talk about physical health. Maria Bauer is joining me today, and I'm excited to have her. |
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