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You have arrived and I am glad you are here! Currently on this site it's mostly all about my new book, Food & Holiness which is hot off the press!
When I started writing this book, I had no intention at all of writing a book. I was writing what I thought was a three or four page paper on what it means to idolize food and how it affects our relationship to God. I wanted to share that paper with some friends who also struggled with food.
But right in the midst of that, all of a sudden the idea of a table of contents came into my mind. Now this didn't come out of nowhere because, as a believer in Jesus Christ and having been reconciled to God, He is the one I obey and so I follow what I believe He leads me to do.
The table of contents came together very quickly and served as an outline for the book. One year later, the book was finished and seemingly with no effort, it just all poured out of me. I have no doubt God enabled and guided me all the way through.
My understanding of what it means to idolize food came from years and years of worshiping food. To call it worship may sound severe, but when we love something more than we love God, it qualifies as worship of that thing, and in my case it was food.
For many, many years I ate stuff I knew I shouldn't. I ate too much, for the wrong reasons and in violation of my conscience. It was a terrible condition to be in, but thanks be to God who, over a few decades brought me through it all and freed me from the tyranny of food.
Who would have dreamed that all these years of struggle, heartache and finally freedom from my fight with food would have culminated in a book, but there it is!
One more thing...don't judge a book by it's cover. This book may specify food and holiness, but though you may not idolize food, each of us does idolize something. This book speaks to that, whatever your weakness may be, and shows the way to be free from what you value more than you value God.
I pray that God will use this book in your life to bring you into the peace and freedom you long for.
"Only God can fill the spiritual hunger that is in us."
