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Every Monday, we gather here with a personal word from the week, a short devotional, and a full recap of everything we published so you never miss a thing. New here? Think of it like sitting down at the kitchen table together before the week gets loud.
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The Typewriter My Dad Never Got Famous For
My office is anywhere my computer is. You will find me on the back deck, at the kitchen table, on the couch next to a kid who wandered in just to sit close. I move through this house all day long: sometimes toward the kids when I need the energy, sometimes away from them when I need the quiet. Over twelve years of this.
For all of the work-from-home parents out there looking for a word of encouragement: Your calling does not require perfect conditions. Some of the most meaningful things I have ever written happened three feet from a Lego explosion with a baby crying upstairs The work does not live in the basement. It lives in you. Wherever you are right now, whatever your office looks like today, the calling is already in you. You do not have to wait for the circumstances to line up perfectly.
Start where you are. :)
It hit me recently that I have been a professional writer for over twelve years. Not a hobbyist. A man who has fed his family through the written word for a decade and a half. And the moment I let that settle, it pulled me right back to a kitchen table in Michigan and the sound of typewriter keys.
My dad was a truck driver. Never graduated from university. He was the middle child of five boys in a struggling Detroit family, and when his friends left for school, he stayed home. He worked hard to over 30 years to put food on the table, and spent most of his early working days grinding through layoffs and lean seasons that shaped my childhood in ways I am still unpacking.
But my dad had a dream he never told anyone about.
Some nights I would watch him at the kitchen table, pipe in his mouth, typing on an old-school typewriter. Pulp fiction. Short stories. Stuff he would submit to magazines just to see if someone would pay a few dollars for his words. And I will never forget the night one of them actually sold. He poured himself a shot of whiskey. He poured me a shot of ginger ale. We clinked glasses like two men who had just conquered the world.
It was one of the defining moments of my life.
My dad stuttered. Still does. The spoken word was hard for him, so he leaned into the written word. And I inherited both. The stutter and the instinct. All through my youth I went to speech therapy, got teased, got bullied. On paper, the words came out exactly the way I wanted them to.
Years later, broke in chiropractic college, I wrote my first paid piece. A seven-part devotional series. Ten hours of work. Seventy dollars. I was so grateful and it gave me the hope that I could do this.
That seventy dollars started everything. Every course, every summit, every book, every newsletter, every word we have sent to the more than two million families we have had the privilege of reaching traces back to that kitchen table and my dad’s typewriter.
When I met Jesus in 2003, He unlocked the very thing I had been chasing since I watched my dad type in the dark. The stuttering kid from Detroit finally had a voice. And that voice led us here, to Bible Health, to you, to this newsletter in your inbox right now.
This is not content. This is a calling. Every word exists to help someone feel better today, know God more, and steward the body they have been given.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” — Ephesians 2:10
Can you relate? To a gift you know you are supposed to use, a calling that has been in you longer than you have had words for it?
We are just getting started and oh so grateful that you’re part of this journey with us. :)
Before we get into everything we published this week, here is a word for your Monday.
“I have been learning from you both for over a year now. I have used essential oils for 7½ years. They have really blessed my life and the lives of my children and grandchildren… I am 62. I have a lot of living left to do and am striving to be healthier and more consistent with the foods I put into my body… God and Jesus Christ are center in my life. I know all things are possible through them. I am grateful for people like you that God uses to bless my life.”
— Karen S.
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YOUR DAILY MANNA
“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” — Psalm 90:12
Moses wrote Psalm 90 in the wilderness, the same wilderness where God gave His people fresh manna every morning and where the people still found ways to mistake provision for scarcity and wisdom for burden. The verse that anchors this week is from that same terrain.
Teach us to number our days. Not to count them with fear, and not to extend them by any means available, but to hold them with intention, with the awareness that the days we have are both a gift and a responsibility.
What our article on lifespan this week showed is that the modern story about life expectancy is built largely on infant mortality statistics, not on adult longevity. Scripture’s 70 to 80 year baseline, which most modern readers take as a limitation, is actually a precise and enduring observation about human biology that the data has now confirmed. God’s Word was right before we had the equations to verify it.
But the verse does not stop at the number. It asks for wisdom. And wisdom, in the context of Bible Health, is not just knowing what to eat or what to remove. It is living with full ownership of the stewardship God gave you, body and soul, because the days you have matter and the way you spend them matters even more.
Whatever this week brings, may you number it well.
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WHAT WE PUBLISHED THIS WEEK
Here is everything we shipped on Bible Health since Monday Manna #6, plus four of our favorite tips from Natural Living Family.
1.. Would Jesus Take Creatine? (We Posted This and Instagram Lost It). We have been sitting on the creatine research for a year. Inside: where creatine monohydrate actually comes from, what the long-term studies show versus what the supplement brands emphasize, why the Instagram comment section changed our view of the scale of this issue, and the discernment framework Christians should apply before following any supplement trend this loud. This is the article that started the conversation.
2. The Lifespan Myth That Rewrote Christian Health. Modern medicine did not double your adult lifespan. It mostly saved babies from dying in infancy, while the 70 to 80 year baseline Scripture established in Psalm 90 was right all along. This is a free article and it is already spreading. Send it to someone who has heard the standard life-expectancy story and never questioned it.
And if you’re new to Bible Health, we’re currently in week 2 of our 41-Day Metabolic Makeover. There’s still time to join - just upgrade to the Inner Circle and we’ll send you everything you need to get started!
FROM NATURAL LIVING FAMILY
Natural Living Family is where we teach the practical version of everything we teach here on Bible Health.
This week, we covered the practical side of everything we teach here: what is really inside the most trusted ingredient in your kitchen, how to lower the toxic burden in your daily shower routine, what to stock for summer immunity, and ten essential oils backed by actual antibacterial research. Here is what we published.
1. Your olive oil probably tastes like grease. We walked through why most supermarket olive oil has already oxidized before it reaches your kitchen, what real extra virgin olive oil tastes like when it is fresh (grassy, peppery, alive), and why the bottle most families trust is nutritionally hollow by the time they open it. Scripture called olive oil a gift. We helped you find the real version, plus a DIY wood dusting spray that uses lemon myrtle and tangerine oils instead of synthetic lemon fragrance.
2. DIY Shampoo + Essential Oils for Blood Pressure & Heart Health + Vegan Alfredo. We shared a DIY shampoo recipe that removes SLS, synthetic fragrance, and parabens from your shower without sacrificing clean hair, plus Dr. Z’s breakdown of the essential oils with real cardiovascular and blood pressure research behind them, including lavender, ylang ylang, rosemary, coriander seed, and clary sage.
3. Why You Need Zinc this Summer. Most families are not getting enough zinc, and not all zinc supplements include all seven forms the body uses. With summer’s high-pollen, travel-heavy season putting extra demand on immune function, we covered the warning signs of zinc deficiency, why supplement form matters, and Mama Z’s companion planting guide for a cleaner garden harvest.
4. Antibacterial Essential Oils + Freezing Veggies + Avocado Superfood + Chocolate Smoothie Bowl. We walked through ten essential oils with antibacterial research behind them, from tea tree and oregano to geranium and citronella, plus how to blanch and freeze your summer harvest before it spoils, and a chocolate smoothie bowl Mama Z makes that the kids genuinely believe is dessert.
WHAT WE ARE LOVING THIS WEEK
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After having made my first liquid DIY shampoo (I used to make shampoo bars) I'll try this one next. I also see the possibility of using coconut water instead of milk, but I also understand it wouldn't be as nourishing.