I was about to tuck into a budget Ready Meal I had bought from a supermarket, and was asking a blessing over my food, as I customarily do. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit interrupted my pious prayer. ‘You don’t expect me to bless that, do you? I only bless what I created, and I didn’t create that!’ Ultra-processed food is generally defined as a product containing ingredients you wouldn’t normally find in a regular kitchen. I don’t know if you ever bother to read the ingredients and

I don’t mean the self-infatuation type of love that flaunts and poses all the time and is a form of idolatry. I’m talking about a caring love of oneself, which Jesus was referring to when He admonished us to ‘Love our neighbour as ourselves.’ Paul reiterates this in Ephesians 5:29: ‘For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church. But the sad truth is that today, so many of us do hate our own flesh, including those of us wit

This is a question many believers who are struggling with weight issues are asking in these days. Some see it as vanity or cheating, whilst others see it as a pragmatic answer to prayer. So, which is it? I want to try to answer this thorny question by exploring four other considerations, but let me say, at the outset, that if you have been, or are considering, taking medication to lose weight, there is absolutely no judgment. Many of you have prayed and agonised over your wei

Why is something that, on face value, seems so easy, nigh impossible for us to sustain? There is no simple answer to this. Our difficulty to maintain weight loss is due to many factors that are often outside of our control, and constantly seem to work against us: These are biological, psychological, and environmental. All of these are covered in the book Weighting on God, but here is a brief overview: Biological Factors Metabolic Adaptation: Our basal metabolic rate (BMR) is