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God’s Health Plan: The Audacious Journey to a Better Life
($17.99, paperback, 978-1-60266-698-6; $27.99, hardcover, 978-1-60266-699-3)
God’s Health Plan: Caring for Body, Mind and Spirit
Author sifts through medical myths, facts to help others
A child suffers for more than a decade with an unexplained, disabling illness. Desperate for answers, his mother embarks on an intensive search for answers amid confusing and often conflicting medical data. The result? The discovery of seven biblical principles that are God’s prescription for healthy living.
God’s health plan is not just about ‘not being sick. It’s about wholeness and restoration of mind, body and spirit. It’s about adding life to your years, not just years to your life. God has a plan and destiny for every individual, and to whatever degree we are sick or dying prematurely from self-inflicted neglect or poor lifestyle choices is the degree we are falling short of fulfilling that God-ordained destiny.
The seven principles encompass food choices, medical care alternatives, and environmental stewardship practices that will create healthier lives and a replenished world. Society is at the beginning of a medical paradigm shift from fighting disease to maintaining health, but individuals face enormous frustration as they begin to take charge of maintaining their own health.
There is so much information available in the health industry today, and it is often hard to decipher what is true and what is mere hype. It is my hope and belief that this book will assist other ordinary people to sift out the fads and fallacies and find God’s principles on health, which can lead to their own physical and spiritual restoration.
Published by Xulon Press, the world’s largest Christian publisher, they have more than 4,000 titles published to date. Retailers may order GOD’S Health Plan through Ingram Book Company and/or Spring Arbor Book Distributors.
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“… I was extremely impressed with the breadth of your study and the biblical basis upon which you have presented your ideas. This book would be a valuable reference to anyone who wants to understand God’s principles of health. I trust that you will receive a wide hearing for it.” Bill Gothard, President |
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“This book candidly reveals a simple but healthful dietary fact: if God made it, it’s healthy; if not, it’s suspect. In this book you will learn to better understand your God-designed body and how to care for it.” William Sears, M.D. (widely known as “America’s Pediatrician”) |
“God’s Health Plan – The Audacious Journey to a Better Life is a compelling study of biblical principles which undergird good stewardship of our minds and bodies. Ricki Pepin provides a basis to evaluate the conflicting voices clamoring for our attention and money in the world today. Those of us who ‘think we eat pretty good’ will be challenged to look again at what we allow in our minds as well as what we put in our mouths. Read this book because you love yourself and want to live to the fullest and die healthy.”
Dr. Chester Kylstra and Betsy Kylstra
Founders of Restoring the Foundations Ministry
“Engaging. Fascinating. Convicting. Ricki has done an incredible study into Bible truth regarding God’s plan for health. Through solid biblical research and clinical studies, she has debunked the ‘mystery’ of modern illness and urges us to return to God’s design for health-filled lives. It is a design that is unfortunately at odds with popular culture, including many in the church. As a lone Christian in the world of alternative medicine for a long time, I wish this book had been available twenty years ago. First, to hand out to my unsaved colleagues and, secondly, to give to Christians who saw me as a heretic.”
Janel Messenger, N.D.
Naturopathic Doctor and Principle Approach Homeschooler
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“The Word of God – the Bread of Life – speaks to and sustains every big and minuscule aspect of created life. In the Christian search for wholeness and health, the first access must needs be the Word of God. In God’s Health Plan – The Audacious Journey to a Better Life, Ricki Pepin takes on the all-encompassing subject of the human habitat and allows the Scripture to speak. In a friendly, upbeat spirit, the troublesome habits and areas of omission or commission in our daily regimens become opportunities for increasing the quality of our service before the Lord and the joy of life. Ricki has taken complex and often contradictory ideas and made them simple and even appealing. It’s a great starting place on the road to abundant living!”
Carole Adams, President
Foundation for American Christian Education
www.face.net www.principleapproach.org
757-488-6601
“Ricki Pepin has done an outstanding job in God’s Health Plan. It is a thorough and organized presentation that held my attention throughout. I especially appreciated the links provided between good health and sound biblical principles. There is so much information available in the health industry that it is often hard to decipher what is true and what is mere hype. This book makes it much easier to discern the real truth.
“The foundations developed in Part One laid the groundwork for the logical conclusion of the overall thesis that ‘good health is not an accident’ but is God's intended provision for His creation. I feel her material is balanced in the presentation of competing views of how to attain and maintain vitality, and yet clear on the importance of understanding and applying biblical principles of good health. Mention of the value of specific foods for maintaining well being was both useful and enlightening and an excellent reference for future use.
“Finally, I am impressed with the ‘how to’ nature of the book. I discovered many new principles of good health that can easily be put into practice. I truly enjoyed this book and I offer it my highest endorsement.”
Rev. Dr. James L. Van Zile
“Ricki Pepin has done a service to the body of Christ by providing a comprehensive manual for addressing the health crisis among evangelical believers. The Bible declares that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and we must not do anything to harm it. However, we often live as if divine health were a mystical answer to a faith-filled prayer that has nothing to do with the stewardship of our diet or our attitudes toward one another. The truth of the matter is that we are reaping what we have sown, and the physical state of today’s believer reveals much of what is going on in our hearts. I urge believers, parents, young people, and pastors to study her research and consider her conclusions.”
Dr. Paul Jehle, author, historian, and pastor
Plymouth, Massachusetts
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“A very balanced and comprehensive approach to health and nutrition from a biblical perspective; written with a conversational approach that I find refreshing.”
Janet Roberto, M.D., Family Physician
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and I must confess it has made me think even more about my eating habits. I can happily endorse your book with the following statement:
“In God’s Health Plan, Ricki Pepin weaves a tapestry of spirit, Scripture, and science. She has created an interesting, informative, and easy to understand book highlighting the connection of our spiritual and physical being. The Holy Bible is her main reference, but there are many others. There is a plethora of websites that are of great interest as well as many references in other books. All of this is the result of her journey dealing with a major health problem in her family. Her thoughtful approach will be controversial in some areas, but I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in seeking and applying biblical principles to what we eat and the world in which we live.”
Fred E. Aurbach, DDS, FAGD, FACD, FICD
