According to this doctor-author, a direct relationship exists between our spiritual health and our physical health. In Holyisitc Attitudes: God's Prescription for Your Good Health, Dr. Adolph examines how attitudes such as hatred, guilt, fear, and discontent can wreak havoc on a person's body. Parents can use this book to help direct the attitudes and ultimately, the health, of their family.
"True physical wholeness . . . is dependent on the state of one's spiritual life," declares Dr. Adolph, who provides spiritual prescriptions that can revitalize your body. Here is a book that is jammed with stories of people from Dr. Adolph's international practice who found this to be true. It is a book by a veteran missionary physician who tells you how to lay hold of God's healing power and add quality years to your life.
Author Harold Paul Adolph, M.D., is one of the world's most colorful missionary doctors. Born to missionary parents, he has had many exciting adventures while he served in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, the Niger Republic, and many other places. He has performed more than 16,500 operations in the U.S. and abroad and has helped thousands of recovering patients find both physical and spiritual health.
To continue our books for Family Wellness Month, we'll feature Fit to Serve, a six-week Bible study that melds physical fitness and spiritual wellness.
Most Christian families would love to do more for God--be His feet for His work in the world--but sometimes our physical "temples" hold us back. Excess weight and food that fattens us and clogs our arteries but doesn't fuel keeps us from being all God intends for us to be. Often the result is sluggishness, ill health, and inertia. We simply don't feel like being on mission for Him, so we take the path of least resistance and stay home.The goal of Fit to Serve is to build up the church so it can fulfill its purpose in the world.
This six-week Bible study by Christian health expert and dietitian Stephanie Dean focuses on helping each individual member of the Body of Christ to function at optimum capacity, which means each person strives to be spiritually and physically fit to serve. Use this study to strengthen your family and grow closer together, either through study as a family or individual study to implement the healthy principles in the book.
This interactive study combines spiritual disciplines such as prayer, worship, and Bible study with nutrition and exercise tips leading to physical wellness. Daily Bible studies help participants develop more in-depth spiritual lives, while daily "health bites" contributed by nutrition and exercise specialists help people examine their food choices and set goals, such as additional walking times and push-ups each day, for themselves.At group sessions members share about what God taught them during their weekly study and share the journey toward being healthier people. A leader guide provides help for conducting group meetings.
Stephanie Dean is a dietitian, author, and speaker. She earned a B.S. in nutrition sciences from Baylor University, completed the dietetic internship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and completed a certificate in adult weight management by the American Dietetic Association. She works in Dallas as a registered and licensed dietitian and is completing a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.
With January already here, many of us will begin to make New Year's resolutions. What will you decide to change? If you're considering your health, dont' forget to think about your spiritual wellness. Although most New Year's resolutions center on physical health, Stephanie Dean, author of Fit to Serve (Dec 08), says your spiritual health goes hand-in-hand with your overall wellness.
The book is a six-week Bible study designed for use in group meetings. Fit to Serve contains five lessons each week for six weeks that combine spiritual disciplines, nutrition and exercise for a comprehensive wellness program. Ms. Dean coordinated with Don and Carol Mathus, fitness experts, and Julie Bender, a nutritionist, to create a step-by-step plan to improve one’s wellbeing. The plan centers on the spiritual condition as the foundation for a healthy life.
In Fit to Serve, each daily lesson includes a spiritually-focused study, which often includes Ms. Dean’s first-person experiences, and a Health Bite with tips and specific exercise guidelines. The spiritual portion is divided into six disciplines – one for each week: Bible study, prayer, worship, service, solitude and simplicity. Spiritual topics such as anxiety, forgiveness and faith are studied from a biblical perspective. Participants are asked to answer various questions for more in-depth reflection. The Health Bites include tips for staying motivated, exercising correctly, eating a balanced diet and setting goals – all with the overarching theme that “health improvement is forever.” A leader guide is included to help facilitate group sessions.
“Fit to Serve provides insight into two important areas of one’s life: physical health and spiritual health. The authors propose logical, fact-based solutions to weight-control issues as well as insightful guidance for spiritual growth. This book offers reliable, practical, and timely information about staying healthy in a busy world,” writes LuAnn Soliah, Ph.D., R.D, in an endorsement of the book.
Stephanie Dean is a dietitian, author, and speaker. She earned a B.S. in nutrition sciences from Baylor University, completed the dietetic internship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and completed a certificate in adult weight management by the American Dietetic Association. She works in Dallas as a registered and licensed dietitian and is completing a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.
According to this doctor-author, a direct relationship exists between our spiritual health and our physical health. In Holyisitc Attitudes: God's Prescription for Your Good Health, Dr. Adolph examines how attitudes such as hatred, guilt, fear, and discontent can wreak havoc on a person's body. 
