Understanding the Spiritual Impact of Healthy Living (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Gary Thomas shares his passion for helping Christians see the enormous spiritual value of physical wellbeing. He takes discussion of fitness off the backburner - where many of us tend to leave it!
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| 0:00.0 | So we all have these things where we have to do. |
| 0:07.9 | Okay, I've got to get past what I don't enjoy doing because I know it's good for me. |
| 0:13.2 | But staying active is so key to remaining a good instrument for God's work. |
| 0:18.7 | Gary Thomas believes Christians need to prioritize not just our spiritual |
| 0:22.7 | health, but our physical health as well. Thanks for joining us today for Focus on the Family |
| 0:27.8 | with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller. John, we're coming out of that holiday season. You know, we're |
| 0:33.1 | into the new year and we're all thinking a couple of things. One is, okay, now I got to pay off that |
| 0:38.6 | credit card bill maybe from overspending. And then there's the overeating part. And I'm certainly |
| 0:44.4 | in that category where I probably had too much turkey, too much potatoes. Yeah, there's just such |
| 0:51.0 | good stuff. Yeah, I got to get to the gym now and start working on that. |
| 0:59.9 | And it's not a guilt trip, but it is an important aspect of life to kind of keep all those things under control. |
| 1:07.4 | And we talked last time with Gary Thomas, his great book, Every Body Matters, kind of the spiritual implication of that. |
| 1:12.0 | And it's an area that I haven't really given that much thought to. I enjoy working out, especially with Trent. He really works out. But getting to the gym every three, four times a week |
| 1:17.7 | and doing some weightlifting is more my pattern. I'm not a big aerobics guy. I never have been. |
| 1:23.1 | But, you know, that's something for the new year I got to take a look at and maybe start doing |
| 1:26.9 | more of that in addition to the weightlifting. |
| 1:29.4 | But the conversation last time was great. God cares about you the whole person. |
| 1:36.1 | And we covered that last time. If you didn't hear it, go listen to it, get the app for the phone, and you can access all the programs. |
| 1:43.3 | Or you can go to the website and download |
| 1:45.0 | it that way. Yeah, yeah, we talked about caloric therapy and volleyball therapy and M&Ms and |
| 1:49.9 | blizzards. We talked about a lot of stuff. And how skinny our wives are. Gary is a prolific |
| 1:55.0 | author and writer and speaker. He's been here a number of times. He's on the pastoral teaching team |
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