About Exercise...
A Christian View of Dieting, Pt. 4 - The Exercise Exercise is about personal health, not body image. The Lure of Body Image. I remember...
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Shepherding Thoughts
by Pastor Ben Francis
Welcome to Shepherding Thoughts: An inside look at a Southern Baptist Pastor's comments on navigating popular topics in Christianity and Religion.
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Ben Francis
- Aug 1, 2022
- 9 min
A Christian View of Dieting, Part 3: The FOOD…
So far, we’ve considered the big business of health and fitness, and we’ve looked at the most important aspect of diet and exercise,...
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Ben Francis
- Jul 25, 2022
- 9 min
A Christian View of Dieting, Part 2: The Spiritual Aspect
Before we consider the physical aspect of dieting, which we often consider to be the primary one, as Christians, we need to think through...
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Ben Francis
- Jul 21, 2022
- 4 min
A Christian View of Dieting, Part 1
In this series of posts, I want to think through dieting and its implications, not only for our physical bodies, but for our spiritual...
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Ben Francis
- Jul 5, 2022
- 6 min
The Pastor and the Dietitian...
Over the last year or so—as I have been reading and educating myself about food, diet, exercise, and the like— it occurs to me that...
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Ben Francis
- May 29, 2022
- 4 min
About Running…
My running journey started a few years ago. Specifically, it started in May/June of 2018. During the early part of 2018, I had developed...
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Ben Francis
- May 28, 2022
- 7 min
The Incarnation and the Value of the Body.
The Incarnation helps us rightly value the human body. The incarnation of Jesus Christ helps us to understand that God loves and values...
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Ben Francis
- May 1, 2022
- 5 min
What I’m Learning about Food
It might seem like an odd thing to say, but I’ve never really known how food works. I know that we eat it, our bodies process it to some...
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Ben Francis
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
A Health Check-In
April 2022 In several previous posts (which can be read here, here, and here), I’ve talked about my own personal struggles with food, my...
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Ben Francis
- Jan 21, 2022
- 6 min
I don't feel Like being Healthy Today.
Do you ever have those days? I had one the other day. I slept past my normal waking time because I had worked late the night before. I...
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