Teachback Tuesday--Self-Control Exercises

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Welcome to TEACHBACK TUESDAY! When "Self-Control Exercises" first aired back in Season One/March 2021, the timing was "accidentally on purpose." March is right about that time when many are abandoning their 3-month-old New Year's Resolutions. Now we're replaying it in December, when almost all temperance has been tossed out the car window while going through the drive-through to grab a jumbo meal after spending too much money shopping! Temperance, AKA "self-control" is unnatural for us. We want what we want and fast. This impatience leads to indulgences that end up costing us in ways we don't want to pay. If you need to work on ruling over the toddler in your adult body, this episode has ideas to help you to gain victories. God wants us to master temperance, and so He trains us through the everyday "pop quizzes" that he allows into our lives. This episode covers three self-control exercises we can practice to cultivate the vital fruit of temperance. Books, Bible Studies, and more in the Shop at Keep the Heart Apply: Living What We Learn--31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Ponder the Path 31-Day Devotional by Francie Taylor Sister Friends by Francie Taylor NEW: Hope Endures: A Biography of Faith by Jennifer Arrington NEW: The Counting Tree by Jennifer Arrington NEW: Seaside Treasures Framed Shell Art Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram Like Keep the Heart on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday at Keep the Heart. For those of you who are new to our podcast,
0:05.9	this episode first aired in season one back in March of 2021, right about at the time when people
0:13.1	start abandoning their New Year's resolutions. I hope you're not there, but just in case you are,
0:20.0	or if you're struggling with some other
0:21.7	area that you just can't seem to get on the top side of it, this episode is for you. Let's listen.
0:28.8	A friend of mine delivered some individually wrapped cookies with Keep the Hearts label on
0:33.6	them for an upcoming conference promotion. She added six free extras to the box.
0:40.0	I put those big cookies on the counter in the kitchen and said to myself,
0:43.9	you can have just one.
0:46.8	This was a self-control exercise.
0:49.8	My grade at the end of the exercise was an F.
0:53.6	I was an F.
1:04.8	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.
1:08.4	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.
1:11.6	Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.
1:14.7	Now, back to today's important study.
1:25.0	I kept coming back into the kitchen to check on those cookies, and by bedtime, I had eaten all six of them, and they were not tiny. They were large and they had this huge
1:31.0	disc of chocolate on top of the shortbread cookie. By about 2 a.m., I was so sick to my stomach
1:38.5	that I had to get out of bed and paste the floor between glasses of ginger water. The sugar overload hit me hard. You know what?
1:48.9	I had it coming to me. Have you ever told yourself that you couldn't eat a certain food for a
1:55.0	certain period of time and then you'd go and eat more of it than ever? Or have you tried to hold yourself back from
2:02.2	losing your temper and then you exploded like a cannon? Or maybe you've experienced the runaway tongue
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