This week

• The one investment that’s guaranteed to outgrow every other investment you make....
• Can a tap on your head save your life? It helped one man reverse diabetes…
• Don’t miss this opportunity to start a revolution....
• How to tell if your priorities will lead to success....
• The one truth that will help you stand firm when the bullets start flying....
• Can your motives withstand the sun test?....
  

“The Bible teaches that Christians are totally different from anyone else.” -  
Peter Jeffery, Evangelicals Then and Now (Buy Now)

Dear Wisdom Seeker,

            It’s a true saying that if you know a man’s priorities, you know the man. And I like to say, “wherever your priorities are, it is there you’ll achieve your success.” Unfortunately, most people have divided priorities, which really limits their success. But there’s a way to focus your priorities that guarantees success. I’ll show you what it is this week. Enjoy!

– Steve Kroening

Health

When a Tap on the Head Can Save Your Life

It probably sounds a little crazy, maybe even a little mystical, that a tap on your could save your life. But it’s true. I’m living proof.

In 2004, I was diagnosed as a diabetic. My glucose levels were in the 300 range. I was put on traditional medicine to bring the levels down. After 90 days, I went off the medicine once the levels were normal. But they started to climb again.

That’s when I heard about Dr. Allan Phillips and his Neurolink treatment. Dr. Phillips is a New Zealand osteopath who, like a number of other health professionals, knows that the body can quite competently heal itself – but only if the brain knows what is wrong inside the body. The communication system between the brain and the body can become disconnected, and unless there’s a reconnection, the patient will never recover properly.

Through 14 years of research, Dr. Phillips has been able to develop a method of connecting the brain with the part of the body that’s not functioning properly. Through a series of testing processes, a health care professional can tell where the dysfunction is. For example, if someone has a problem with high blood sugar, Dr. Phillips says the pancreas is probably not working as it should.

Amazingly, Dr. Phillips has discovered that a simple tap on the head can fix the problem. All he has to do is lightly touch parts of the body and then tap your head. This helps the brain diagnose the problem – then fix it.

In reality, it’s not quite as easy to do as it sounds. There may be number of these head-tapping exercises in one treatment session. And the order in which they occur is important. It’s like peeling layers off an onion. You have to start at the right end.

I tried the treatment after I found a health care professional who practiced it. After two treatments, the glucose levels went back to normal. And they have pretty much stayed there since. I continue with the treatments to deal with this and other health challenges.

As I said, it does sound a little mystical. But it’s not. When God created man, He knew that useful and reliable medical help would seldom be available for his creation. As a result, He created an incredible, interlinked, and sophisticated system of self-maintenance within the human body. Modern medical practice has sometimes minimized the extent to which the body can right itself after trauma, often thinking that drugs, surgery, or harsh treatments are needed when less severe approaches would give better results. The fact is that David was right: We are indeed “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Your body, like everything else in creation, requires maintenance and proper care. For example, if you don’t get enough rest and proper nutrition, then it’s difficult for any health professional to resolve issues that have developed within your body.

But when problems do come, Neurolink is a great low-cost, non-invasive way to treat them. Which is where I suggest you begin. After all, all you have to gain is your health again. And there isn’t much to lose. For details and to find a medical professional near you, go to www.neurolink.co.nz. If you can’t find a health care professional near you, find a good chiropractor and ask him to take the Neurolink training. Both the chiropractor and you will benefit.

– Ian Hodge

Family & Relationships

Start a Revolution – Eat Dinner With Your Family

"What if I told you that there was a magic bullet – something that would improve the quality of your daily life, your children's chances of success in the world, your family's health, our values as a society? Something that is inexpensive, simple to produce and within the reach of pretty much anyone?"

Miriam Weinstein begins her book The Surprising Power of Family Meals (Steer Forth Press, 2005) with those two questions and then suggests that the "magic bullet" missed by so many families is as simple as a shared meal.

Weinstein, a filmmaker and journalist, has collected an impressive body of data in order to make her case that the institution of the shared family meal represents something of vital importance for human life. Even as the family meal is fast disappearing, Weinstein has issued an eloquent call for its recovery.

As she explains, the research indicates that a shared family meal leads to the strengthening of family bonds, the deepening of relationships, and higher levels of satisfaction and effectiveness among family members. According to Weinstein, the research shows how eating ordinary, everyday supper with your family is strongly linked to lower incidences of bad outcomes such as teenage drug and alcohol use, and to higher incidences of good qualities like emotional stability. It correlates with kindergartners being better prepared to learn to read. (It even trumps being read to.) Regular family supper helps keep kids out of hospitals. It discourages both obesity and eating disorders. It supports your staying more connected to your extended family, your ethnic heritage, your community of faith.

That's not all. Weinstein also argues that the regular rhythm of family meals will "help children and families to be more resilient, reacting positively to those curves and arrows that life throws our way. It will certainly keep you better nourished. The things we are likely to discuss at the supper table will anchor our children more firmly in the world. Of course eating together teaches manners both trivial and momentous, putting you in touch with the deeper springs of human relations."

Weinstein makes a compelling case, and her book is sure to prompt many parents to think about what has been lost as the family meal has been eclipsed by other activities....

Writing from a Jewish perspective, Weinstein understands the importance of ritual and structure in the lives of families. She is undoubtedly correct that the shared family meal becomes a barometer of family life and priorities. Her encouragement to restructure family schedules and priorities in order to recover the shared family meal is eloquently and convincingly sustained by her argument.

Christians recognize an even deeper dimension of what Weinstein observes. Christian parents should understand that the shared family meal takes on an increased significance given our responsibility to teach our children faithfully, to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and to inculcate in them a respect for family life that focuses ultimately on the glory of God.

Parents in this generation now face the opportunity – and the responsibility – of recovering shared family meals as a way of recovering sanity and security in family life. Oddly enough, recovering the priority of a shared family meal represents something of a revolutionary stance against the individualism and immediacy of the larger culture. Now is the time to start a revolution – and determining to share family supper together is an important place to start.

– Albert Mohler

(Ed. Note: Excerpted from www.albertmohler.com. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., has a daily e-mail that is profound and very relevant. I highly recommend it. You can sign up for it on his website.)

Success

What Is Your Priority?

Two weeks ago, Zig Ziglar told us his #1 principle of success – prioritize! Unfortunately, many Christians fail to succeed because they have their priorities out of whack. But if you can get your priorities straight, everything else will fall into place. Here’s your starting point.

How many times have you heard a Christian say, “My priorities are God, family, church, work, etc.”? I hear it all the time. It sounds spiritual. But the reality of that statement is that God is just one of many priorities. In other words, God is just one of many gods.

If God makes one thing clear in Scripture, it’s that He is God alone and expects us to make Him the priority of our lives.

So instead of making a list of priorities – with God as one in a list – here’s how your list of priorities should look: God.

That’s right! That’s all there is to it. God is your sole priority.

Of course, we have a lot of other things we must attend to in life. These include family, church, work, etc. So how do these fit into this new priority? If God is your only priority, should you avoid all the other things? Of course not!

The secret is that you now work on these areas of your life as a priority given by God. It is, in fact, His priority, not yours. You are responsible to do certain things for your family – not as your priority, but God’s. You work not because it’s your priority, but God’s. And the same applies to church and every other area of life. Anything that is God’s priority is now your responsibility.

How does this bring success? First of all, it helps you keep the right priority in all things. If you have a list of priorities, it’s oftentimes difficult to determine which one is most important. But if God is your sole priority, then everything always comes back to Him. It starts and ends with Him.

Second, when you go to make up your list of priorities for the day or the week, you can now ask, “What are God’s priorities for me today (or this week)?” Suddenly, a lot of the not-so-important things you want to do will drop off the list. And you’re able to focus on your most important responsibilities.

For instance, God’s priority for Sunday is that you worship with other believers. So instead of working or sleeping in on Sunday morning, your responsibility is to attend worship. On Monday, however, attending worship is not God’s priority. Work is His priority.

And, finally, the greatest way this contributes to your success is this: You can have full confidence that God’s purposes will succeed (Prov. 19:21). And His priorities are geared to make sure that happens. When you walk in God’s priorities, you know they will ultimately succeed.

Next week, you’ll see how this applies to your prayer life. If your prayer life isn’t successful, this might help.

– Steve Kroening

Wisdom From History

The Confidence to Stand Firm in Life’s Battles

The famous Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was noted for his incredibly ferocious fighting. His skill in battle came from an astounding degree of self-discipline. And he expected great discipline from his officers and men, dealing with them sternly if they failed.

Jackson was fearless in the most intense fighting, gaining his nickname by his tendency to sit perfectly still on his horse during battle—never giving an inch. He wouldn’t flinch when bullets flew past him and cannon balls landed around him. But his discipline wasn’t just for show or ambition—it was deeply rooted in his faith in Christ.

When he was asked by a Captain Smith how he could remain so calm in battle, he replied, “Mr. Smith, my religious faith teaches me that God has already fixed the time of my death; therefore, I think not of it. I am as calm in battle as I would be in my own parlor. God will come for me in his own time.”

– Robert Kroening

Word for the Wise

Faults Can Be Hidden, But the Light Will Reveal Them

In Philippians 1:10, the Apostle Paul first uses the word “sincere.” This is a word used to describe your motives. But what was in Paul’s mind when he used this word? James Montgomery Boice, in his book Philippians: An Expositional Commentary, gives us an idea:

In ancient times … the finest pottery was thin. It had a clear color, and it brought a high price. Fine pottery was very fragile both before and after firing. And … this pottery would often crack in the oven. Cracked pottery should have been thrown away. But dishonest dealers were in the habit of filling cracks with a hard pearly wax that would blend in with the color of the pottery. This made the cracks practically undetectable in the shops, especially when painted or glazed; but this wax was immediately detectable if the pottery was held up to light, especially to the sun. In that case the cracks would show up darker. It was said that the artificial element was detected by “sun-testing.” Honest dealers marked their finer product by the caption sine cera – “without wax.”

 
Resources

Philippians: An Expositional Commentary by James Montgomery Boice, Baker Books, 2000 (BUY NOW)

The Surprising Power of Family Meals by Miriam Weinstein, Steer Forth Press, 2005 (BUY NOW)

Evangelicals Then and Now, by Peter Jeffery, Evangelical Press, 2004 (BUY NOW)

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