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When Your Body Quits Before Your Faith Does: Growing Closer to God Through Illness and Recovery
Illness, injury, or a slow recovery can make your faith feel like it’s shrinking along with your strength. Discover why a physical setback doesn’t end spiritual growth, and four simple ways to stay close to Jesus when your body won’t cooperate.

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4 hours ago5 min read


When Worry Won’t Let You Sleep: How to Turn Your Eyes Back to Jesus
Worry keeps your mind stuck in tomorrow, and fear makes you feel alone. Learn four simple ways to turn your attention back to Jesus and find peace when life feels uncertain.

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Oct 305 min read


Bringing Your Best Self Home: How to Stop Giving Your Family Your Leftovers
Does your family get the tired, distracted version of you? Discover why your presence at home reveals real faith, and a simple three-minute practice for walking through the door ready to love well.

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Oct 235 min read


Grief and Faith: When Grief Takes the Whole House
Does grief make prayer, Bible reading, and everyday life difficult? Discover biblical encouragement for navigating loss, finding God's comfort, and supporting others who grieve.

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Oct 166 min read


Unlocking Hidden Rooms: How to Overcome Spiritual Compartmentalization and Find True Freedom
Discover how spiritual compartmentalization divides your faith and learn four practical steps to surrender hidden areas of your life to God and experience greater freedom.

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Oct 96 min read


Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation: How Small Daily Steps Can Rekindle Your Faith
Feeling spiritually stagnant? Discover how small, consistent habits of prayer, Scripture, reflection, and Christian community can help rekindle your faith and restore spiritual momentum.

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Oct 25 min read


From Deception to Freedom: A Guide to Repentance
Learn how biblical repentance can help you recognize spiritual deception, leave false practices behind, make amends, and rebuild your life on the truth of God’s Word.

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Sep 255 min read


Ordinary Skills, Extraordinary Purpose: How God Uses Your Everyday Career in Ministry
Does your everyday career matter to God? Discover how your work, professional skills, relationships, and ordinary responsibilities can become meaningful ways to serve God and others.

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Sep 116 min read


How to Stop White-Knuckling Life and Find True Surrender
Tired of white-knuckling your way through life? Discover how biblical surrender can break the cycle of control, self-reliance, and exhaustion and help you trust God.

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Sep 45 min read


Overcoming Spiritual Delay: How to Stop Fooling Yourself
Are you waiting on God or simply delaying obedience? Discover how to recognize spiritual self-deception, confront excuses, and take practical steps of faith today.

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Aug 285 min read


Faith as an Endurance Sport: Moving Beyond the Sprint Mindset
Faith isn’t a sprint. Discover how daily spiritual habits, rest, community, and perseverance can build the endurance you need to follow Christ faithfully for the long haul.

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Aug 215 min read


At What Age Did You Commit the Unforgivable Sin? I Did at 10. Part One
Did you grow up believing Christianity was mostly a list of rules? Arnie Cole reflects on his own experience with legalism and invites readers to help rediscover what genuine spiritual fitness truly requires.

Arnie Cole
Jul 194 min read


Modern Fatherhood: Why Dads Choose AI Over Authentic Brotherhood
Discover why modern dads secretly use AI for guidance and how true brotherhood offers a better path.

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Jun 196 min read


Digital Discernment: Navigating the Guru Culture
In an age of digital gurus and algorithms, how do we stay anchored in Christ? Learn the keys to digital discernment and spiritual clarity.

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Feb 204 min read


Love After the Flowers Fade: The Secret to Enduring Commitment
Valentine's Day is easy, but real love happens in March. Discover the 1 Corinthians 13 pillars for a marriage that lasts.

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Feb 134 min read


The Anatomy of Renewal: Retraining Your Mind for God’s Will
Are you suffering from "brain rot"? Discover how to move from passive consumption to the active renewing of your mind through Romans 12:2.

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Feb 64 min read


The Discipline of Rest: Why Stopping is a Spiritual Rep
For the driven Christ-follower, resting is often the hardest discipline. Learn why stillness is a vital spiritual rep for your faith.

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Jan 304 min read


Breaking the Habit of "What If": How to Stop Worrying
Are you enslaved to worry? Discover how to break the "what if" cycle and find peace through the Philippians 4 workout.

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Jan 234 min read


You Are Not Your Struggle - A Message for 2026
Learn how to stop defining yourself by your struggles and embrace the story God is writing through grace and resilience.
If you want, I can tailor it to be more emotional, more data-driven, or more explicitly tied to Spiritually Fit Today.

Arnie Cole
Nov 30, 20253 min read


Am I Thinking for Myself—Or Just Following the Crowd?
A reflection on Romans 12:2 and how to discern whether you're being transformed by God’s truth or simply following cultural groupthink.

Arnie Cole
Nov 16, 20254 min read


Your Life Is God’s Letter: How to Live Each Day as a Message of Jesus’ Love
Discover how to let your everyday choices reveal Jesus to others. Inspired by Brian Meyer’s incredible faith journey from hardship to hope, this guide shows how the Holy Spirit writes God’s story on your heart.

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Nov 7, 20255 min read


SPIRITUALLY FIT TODAY:
At Back to the Bible, we believe spiritual growth doesn’t happen by accident. Just as physical strength comes through daily exercise, spiritual strength grows through daily engagement with God’s Word.

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Nov 2, 20252 min read
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