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Fitness tips from a Biblical worldview.

Your Relationship With Food: A Biblical Perspective

Your Relationship With Food: A Biblical Perspective

By Matthew Gay • February 20, 2025

Your relationship with food is more than just what you eat—it's about how you see food, why you eat the way you do, and what beliefs you hold...

Building A Routine Around God and Getting Healthy

Building A Routine Around God and Getting Healthy

By Matthew Gay • August 26, 2024

If your family is anything like mine, your children are going back to school, which means your summer routine (if you had one) has come...

Stop Self-Sabotaging on Your Fitness Journey

Stop Self-Sabotaging on Your Fitness Journey

By Matthew Gay • August 1, 2024

In this article, I make a biblical attempt to clarify the problem of and solution for overcoming self-sabotage on your fitness journey...

Committed to Jesus: In Fitness and in Health

Committed to Jesus: In Fitness and in Health

By Matthew Gay • July 23, 2024

If your health habits are separate from your relationship with Christ, you have kept them hidden in a box only the world can touch. In...

A Fitness Program For Christians and Churches

A Fitness Program For Christians and Churches

By Matthew Gay • December 28, 2023

It's no secret our churches are full of members who are struggling with their weight, habits, and health overall. We know them as friends...

How to Lose Weight God's Way

How to Lose Weight God's Way

By Matthew Gay • December 19, 2023

Hi, I am Coach Matthew Gay! I help busy believers transform their bodies and lifestyles for good while learning to commune with God...

Unhealthy Habits in the American Church

Unhealthy Habits in the American Church

By Matthew Gay • December 13, 2023

God's people have always been given instructions to refrain from things that would harm them. Even as we look at the Ten Commandments, we...

Stress Management for the Holidays

Stress Management for the Holidays

By Matthew Gay • November 27, 2023

Whether you're single, married, a parent, an aunt, a corporate worker, or a business owner, the holidays may be one of the most stressful...

14 Healthy Hacks for the Holidays

14 Healthy Hacks for the Holidays

By Matthew Gay • November 20, 2023

This time of year can be the most trying when you're attempting to lose weight or simply maintain it. Maybe you've worked hard to get...

5 Tips For Starting A Healthy Lifestyle

5 Tips For Starting A Healthy Lifestyle

By Matthew Gay • November 13, 2023

Starting to create a healthy lifestyle can be extremely overwhelming, but with the correct perspective, it's much easier. I remember...

4 Ways To Glorify God on Your Health Journey

4 Ways To Glorify God on Your Health Journey

By Matthew Gay • November 10, 2023

The opinion of the fitness industry is that our self-care practices should be an ode to ourselves and those we love, figuratively...

What is Christian Fitness?

What is Christian Fitness?

By Matthew Gay • November 7, 2023

Over the years, I've seen fitness done in many different ways. We see people dressed like wrestlers lifting barbells over their heads...

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