10:10 Wellness

God Wants You Well (part 3)

OK, so I left off saying I would explain the universal Christian belief that "Jesus died for our sins".  I fully realize that this is like having a 6 year old explain quantum physics.  My only hope is that there're some 6 year olds that will read this.  And I'm going to make this explanation without any scripture quotation - cause I'm lazy.

First, we have to believe in God.  Why?  You just do.  To comprehend quantum physics you have to believe that atomic and subatomic particles exist - even though we can't see them.  "I can see them under a microscope" some may retort.  Whatever.  I'm not here to try and convince anyone that God exists.  It's my belief that it takes more faith to believe in a randomly formed earth and universe than in an intelligent designer - but I digress.

God Wants You Well (part 2)

Great news.  God hasn't struck me down for admitting that I'm less than sure about TV evangelical healings.  So I can expand on what I learned from God Wants You Well.  As I said I was expecting a book on Biblical habits that will make us healthy - not eating bottom feeders type material.  It had none of that.

Let me preface this discussion with an admission that I'm still very green in Bible study.  I like to believe and try to have a child-like faith - which can in some ways be naive.  Perhaps later I'll unpack that.  I don't plan to provide a book review here - I just want to share how this book changed my belief about healing - divine healing in this case.

God Wants You Well (part 1)

One of my favorite shopping destinations is Amazon (as in .com).  Never a fan of browsing a mall (I am a man, aren't I), I've found the Amazon site to be incredibly useful - for buying books that is.  Some reading purists would probably scoff at this shopping habit as opposed to a traditional book store or library experience.  My take is that in a matter of moments, I can find not only the book I'm looking for, but also, a number of related books that are also of interest.  And that's how I found the book God Wants You Well.

As a hobby, I like to explore and study health.  Some of my book recommendations reveal that.  As a Christian, I like to explore and study my faith.  To a lesser degree than the health topic, I also have some suggested reading on faith - but those books have a health hook in them.  I suppose I need to include other suggestions in the context of improving our spiritual health.  For now I'll leave that up to the God experts - I'm just a guy who loves Jesus and who loves to work out all the time.

The End Of The Innocence

I'm in Phoenix right now - a work related gig.  Being a couple hours behind (mountain time) it's natural that I wake early, like 5am.  What wasn't natural was that a Don Henley song was playing in my head when I woke.  Nothing against Don, but I've never been a fan, downloaded his music, or even watched a YouTube video.  So I had to follow this and discover what he was trying to say in this song.