A friend posted this video on his facebook page today, with a caption: You have time for this. I'm gonna tell you the same thing. Go ahead. Watch it. As I watched it, I kept thinking about this verse: "By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for our brother. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 1 John 3:16-17 (NKJV) Here is a boy … [Read more...]
Getting Fit Today… for Tomorrow
I must have been about 13 years old. I had received a new camera for Christmas, and was snapping away at anything that moved. I happened to take a picture of my dad making a goofy face with his arm pulled back pretending he was going to throw a football. Doesn't sound like a momentous occasion, does it? But it changed his life. When I developed the pictures, he saw his belly sticking out from under his sweatshirt. He was only 32, too young for a gut. Around the same time, some folks … [Read more...]