FIT@50 After a few visits to the gym, I’ve finally started to feel like I’m actually working out as opposed to struggling to get by. But oh that old devil that resides besides each encouraging thought. No sooner had I set the dumbells into the rack did I drop onto the padded bench to take a breather. I felt good about the effort. Then my eyes scanned over to the “dark side” of the weight rack. You know, the lower rack where the big, heavy dumbbells sit. I heard the whisper, “

Throughout commentaries and articles about the Christian life and walk, you will undoubtedly encounter the word faith over and over again. In the book of Hebrews alone, faith is mentioned 23 times. Christ Himself even said to the woman with an issue of blood, that because of her faith, she was healed. What does that mean, because of her faith or without faith? What, exactly, does “faith” mean? I know what my faith means, but because it’s something so deep inside of me, I don’

For Thanksgiving weekend, our daughter, Kaylee, was home from her sophomore year of college. While we all worked to prepare our meal, she told us about a paper she has to write for her communications class. It has to be a personal subject with a unique perspective, and she considered writing about the negative affects of divorce on young children versus older children. I was interested in her perspective, mainly because we have a fully integrated home. She calls my husband “D

I explained to my then fiance several years ago that she’d “ruined” it. She laughed. I was serious. So was she. Single adults develop habits through the years that may seem unbreakable. Certainly you’ve heard the old adage, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Well, if that mutt wants more from life than easing over from one shady spot in the yard to the next, then everyone has the capacity to learn and to change. The most profound promise about change is found in 2 Corinth