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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Understanding the Spiritual Impact of Healthy Living

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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

I work out so I can play on the floor with my grandkids.

0:09.0

I like to take walks to clear my head.

0:11.1

Got to hit 10,000 steps.

0:12.8

I really don't want to be rude or antisocial, but food is just everywhere.

0:17.4

I'm busy, okay? It's hard to get to the gym.

0:19.5

When am I supposed to do that?

0:20.6

Like 4 a.m., 10 p.m., when?

0:23.9

Well, maybe you can relate. Is pursuing a healthy lifestyle, a chore, or is it something you

0:29.3

enjoy you plan for? Your overall well-being is what we're talking about today on Focus on the

0:34.4

Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining.

0:42.1

Okay, John, here we go. It's the new year. We're going to kick this off and it's time to get back to the gym. I sort of feel like we let go a bit and this is the reckoning time, isn't it?

0:47.1

I think so. You know, I'm just coming off rotator cuff surgery. So I was really diligent. I was going to the gym pretty regularly three times a week with Trent and then this happened

0:55.8

and I haven't been as good about it.

0:57.9

You have to eat extra during the holidays to help the arm recover, right?

1:00.9

That's it.

1:01.7

That's the idea and that's why we're here today to talk about what we can do to honor the

1:05.8

Lord by being mindful of our physical bodies and how to take care of them.

1:10.7

Don't turn that off. I just felt

1:12.9

like four people went, okay, I'm not listening to this. Yeah, we got to talk about this. I think it'll be

1:18.0

very insightful. We want to talk about fitness spiritually, physically, and we're going to cover that

1:23.6

with one of our great friends, Gary Thomas. Yeah, Gary is a prolific author and speaker,

1:28.2

and he's been here in the studio with us a number of times and has written a number of books on

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