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Ever feel overwhelmed by all the health advice out there? You’re not alone. In this episode, we cut through the noise and reveal the real “majors” of Christian health—what actually matters for your body, mind, and soul. From whole food nutrition and strategic exercise to sleep, stress, and spiritual priorities, we break down the basics that move the needle (and expose the trendy “minors” that don’t). If you’re tired of chasing the latest supplement, diet, or fitness fad, this conversation will help you focus on what truly works.
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Many families treat summer as something to endure, missing the opportunity to make it the most formative season of the year. The chaos of kids at home, disrupted routines, and constant mess can tempt parents to just “get through it,” but this mindset overlooks the unique chance summer offers for discipleship, connection, and growth. Scripture calls parents to intentionality, not survival mode, and the habits formed in these months shape children for years to come. By making one deliberate change—whether in family structure, daily routines, or parental priorities—families can transform summer from a season of stress into a time of joy, health, and togetherness. This episode addresses the real challenges of summer parenting, offers practical strategies for family routines, fitness, and nutrition, and encourages Christian families to embrace summer as a God-given opportunity for building lasting memories and spiritual foundations.
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In this episode of Waterbreak, Gabe and Annie dive into the dangers of blindly following popular health trends. From diets to exercise routines, what works for one person might not work for you. They explore why understanding your own body type, metabolism, and stress levels is key to finding a sustainable plan for long-term health. Tune in as they break down how to avoid common health mistakes and tailor a strategy that actually works for you.
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In this episode of Waterbreak, Sal Di Stefano, host of the Mind Pump podcast, opens up about how his journey through the fitness world led him to a deeper understanding of faith. After years of chasing physical gains and navigating the fitness industry’s lies, Sal realized something was missing—truth. We explore how fitness and spirituality intersect, and how Sal’s personal transformation shifted his focus from chasing aesthetics to embracing faith. If you’ve ever wondered how health, wellness, and faith come together, this episode dives into the real, raw process of living a life that's balanced physically and spiritually.
More from Joel Greene here: www.veepnutrition.com
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More from Dr. Patrick Flynn at thewellnessway.com
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Check out Dr. Cam's website here: https://shae.group/dr-cam-mcdonald/
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Check out Annie’s new website! https://annierench.com/
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Check out Annie’s new website! https://annierench.com/
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If you have any other questions or thoughts that you’d like to share, reach out at RenchMedia@gmail.com Check out Annie’s new website! https://annierench.com/ Find Annie on Instagram @AnnieMRench
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Check out Annie’s new website!
https://annierench.com/
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If you have any other questions or thoughts that you’d like to share, reach out at RenchMedia@gmail.com
Check out Annie’s new website! https://annierench.com/
Find Annie on Instagram @AnnieMRench
If you have any other questions or thoughts that you’d like to share, reach out at RenchMedia@gmail.com
Check out Annie’s new website!
https://annierench.com/
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If you have any other questions or thoughts that you’d like to share, reach out at RenchMedia@gmail.com
Check out Annie’s new website!
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This Episode we will be going through the INCREDIBLE Interview of Calley & Casey from Tucker Carlson where they discuss how America is rigged to have unhealthy people.
Catch the Full Interview Here:
https://youtu.be/mUH4Co2wE-I?si=d6_Es2JIz41Um-_S
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We’re delighted to have Dr. Amie Hornaman on the show to discuss all things thyroid!
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We’re responding to a great question that was sent in to us: “How can we start moving forward when we have years of bad habits?”
This is a great topic to talk about since SO MANY people are going through this very thing! If you have any other questions or thoughts that you’d like to share, reach out at RenchMedia@gmail.com
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Let’s look into the Fitness standards of the Secret Service and talk about it a little bit….
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Join Annie & Gabe Live to ask anything your heart desires!
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Top 10 Health Truths I Wish I Knew 20 Years Ago
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Join Gabe and Annie for more fun and practical Health/Fitness Discussion. This week Annie is diving into raising healthy High School kids!
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Gabe & Annie return to discuss/demythologize keeping in shape during the wonderful time of pregnancy!
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The Waterbreak LIVE w/ Gabe & Annie the topic this time around - “Raising Healthy Kids Without Going Crazy”
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Some solid insights by Annie to challenge our fitness assumptions. We should encourage health and strength, not simply losing weight and looking good (That definitely happens, but some people actually should be eating MORE!) Catch the show for more!
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Supplement Brands Annie Likes:
Thorne
Pure Encapsulations
Designs for Health
Fixxer
Ben Lynch “Seeking Health”
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In a loving manner…listen to Annie! There are quite a few solid insights to keep your family safe from misapplied affections - namely ways that you could be hurting your family’s health…
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Improving your health without fads, shame, & shallow goals is something that is very attainable. Going against the grain of pop culture is what can make real differences to real people.
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Hey y’all, Annie and I are going to be a bit more consistent hanging out with y’all with these Waterbreaks! This time around Annie talks about how she got into health and fitness and I make jokes because I’m funny sometimes. Expect more of that on weekends with us - more to come!
Waterbreak: 09/04/2022
Intro
Good evening America! What does Big Eva and Joe Biden have in common, besides possible appearances on Epstien’s plane? They both are losing their minds. This Reminds me the difference between an atheist and big eva? The atheist is honest about not following the teachings of Christ. Most of the team is back and we are going to talk about So, grab your best scotch or Dr. Pepper and enjoy the show.
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Belly Flop or Canon Ball
What do you think are the top issues facing the evangelical church? Pastoral burnout? The LGBT=+ identity crisis? Fighting for your state to make abortion illegal? Church leaders getting arrested during the “pandemic”? This should be easy. Well, this past week, The National Association of Evangelicals came out with a report titled: “Loving the Least of These: Addressing a Changing Environment” and the goal of this study is to highlight how climate change will have the greatest impacts on those in poverty. Never mind what the pandemic did to the poor, no, big eva has to join with Greta Thunberg and speak against big Chrisitan families who own suburbans.
Big Eva is in trouble, in trouble like Biden’s economy is in trouble. Biden’s economy is inflated with all the helium reserves of government school economics and Big Eva fog machines are running out.
The tweet of the week came from GoThoughtLeader which stated: “Those who are angry about the loan forgiveness because they have already paid theirs off are like the day workers in Jesus' parable who are angry that the master paid the same amount to the laborers who showed up later in the day. #debtforgiveness #Forgiveness”
Now, to be clear, this is a parody account, but he fooled some people, because it sounds so big eva.
The point I want to drive home is that Big Eva will only address issues that the liberals give them permission to address, like climate change, immigration, or student loan forgiveness. This is why big eva went silent during the pandemic. This is why big eva whispers about RoeVWade being overturned. This is why big eva refuses to say anything that actually might set liberals off. But we want to be antifragile Chrisitans. The kind of Chrisitans that do not care what man thinks of us, and the kind of Christians that will say exactly what God wants us to say, in season and out of season. Our culture is full of cancer, and this cancer is impacting our classrooms, our politicians, our churches, our businesses and big eva will not stand up and fight against this cancer. It is refreshing when guys like Joe Rogan or Aaron Rodgers speak up, but shame on big eva for their silence. Just this passed week, Kyle Bass is an American investor and founder of Conservation Equity Management, was on Squawk Box speaking against ESG…

Rod Martin respond to this video:
https://notthebee.com/article/cnbc-guest-drops-straight-facts-about-the-disastrous-and-evil-esg-and-green-energy-policies-which-will-end-up-starving-the-poor-children-of-the-world-and-killing-many-of-them
ESG will bankrupt businesses.
Joseph Backholm
-On Thursday night Joe Biden addressed the nation, and he tried to cast republicans as anit-democratic and destructive. Listen to this clip.
-https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1565497000958652416?s=20&t=VE-okLEJwc3953G7rsAuUg
Jacob Daniel:
- It is clear that our political leaders want to label and cast identity onto groups of people in order to control the narrative and maintain power, how should we as Christians sort through identity politics?
- How has our identity politics been fueled by a lack of discipleship from the church?
News that John Branyan can trust:
Sharks
Dogs Cry
Trump Isn't Satan
Farley Blames Baptists for Inflation and Global warming.
Outro:
Go find ways to engage this world with your gifts and abilities, don’t hide your faith under a bushel, and to live out the Lordship of Christ in every area of your life.
This is the Waterboy with Waterbreak, until next Sunday, go Fight Laugh and Feast.
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*Russel Moore double masked
07/31/2022
Intro
Good evening America, welcome to Waterbreak. It is no secret to this audience that COVID tyranny was a crime scene that should have never happened, but I don’t think we are ready to face the answers to this problem. My guest today is Davis Younts, who is continuing to fight this COVID tyranny as we speak, is joining us to talk about the coast-guard’s COVID crime scene and Comedian John Branyan has some news that you can trust, fixing all the definitions that have been changed under the Biden administration. So, grab your best scotch or Dr. Pepper and enjoy the show.
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Canon Ball or Belly Flop
We are now two years out from 2020, and the lingering tyranny is not going away. This is not a logical tyranny, but is tyranny ever logical? They are forcing vaccination to stop transmission, but that vaccine does not stop…transmission. This is what you can expect from a President who thinks a man can be a woman, and appoints Mitch McConnel as a woman to be the Assistant Health Secretary. (SLIDE)
The democrats are trying to spin the COVID pandemic into a Climate pandemic, feeding their lust for power and squeezing all they can out of our fears, complacency, and ignorance. Some people followed the government out of fear, some out of complacency, others out of ignorance, but no matter what happened, we should have never let this happen to America. America was built on men who resisted tyranny. America was built by families fleeing religious persecution, America was built through grit and great difficulty. Our government did not build America. This is why the founders recognized that the government derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed”. The government comes from the people, the government did not build America, people built America and created a government out of that foundation.
The second crime scene is always worse than the first, and what people don’t realize is that COVID was the second or third crime scene. First crime scene was abdication, which included parents putting their kids in public schools, the second crime scene was not speaking up, and now you have been successfully conditioned for the third crime scene-the COVID crime scene.
Right now our military really is a battleground for the taking of our freedoms. Don’t pretend that the force vaccination policies in the military wont ever effect you. They are just an easy control group for their tyranny. But the military long ago should have been asking “What was the first crime scene and why did we not throw-down at that first crime scene?” What was the first crime scene? Women in the military? Blind submission to our industrial military complex? The massive military spending bills that get passed every couple of years? These are important questions to ask if we are ever going to take back our liberties in the military.
Those are questions we will have to get to at another time, because right now we have a lot of Chrisitans in the military who are in the fight for their lives. Several dozen coast-guard helicopter rescue swimmers have had their religious exemptions from taking the vaccine denied, and now the coast-guard does not even want to hear their case…no due process! That is egregious. These military members are really being wronged, and my guest today is their lawyer
Interview
Davis Younts, https://standwithwarriors.org/, welcome to the show David.
- You have been on the show before, and it seems like despite all the injunctions, why is the coast guard, who’s top Commander is Admiral Linda L. Fagan btw, why are they continuing to go after the unvaxxed despite injunctions with other military branches?
- What do you mean the coast guard is denying “due process”?
- I think you average citizen thinks this wont affect them, why is this legal fight so important to the average citizen?
Waterbreak Team
News that John Branyan can trust:
- Will Smith addresses Oscars slap, apologizes to Chris Rock, family in new video
- STOP: It's meme dump time! Imbibe some fresh laughs to get you through Friday (and the end of the world) 🤣😭
- Words Redefined
My prayer and goal for Waterbreak, is that you are encouraged to find ways to engage with your gifts and abilities, to lead with your faith and not hide it under a bushel, and to live out the Lordship of Christ in every area of life, particularly in the public square. I pray God uses you to change your city, your state, and our country.
This is the Waterboy with Waterbreak, until next Sunday, go Fight Laugh and Feast.
Slides:
07/24/2022
Intro
Good evening America and Canada, welcome to Waterbreak. For those who are in crazy blue COVID states or Canada, the question I want to ask you this evening is “Are you a refugee or reinforcement?” My guest today is Pastor Dave Hatcher and most of the Waterbreak team is lined up and ready to deliver. So, grab your best scotch or Dr. Pepper and enjoy the show.
Plug:
New Saint Andrews:
Today’s culture shifts like sand. But New Saint Andrews College is established on Christ, the immovable rock. It is a premier institution that forges evangelical leaders who don’t fear or hate the world. Guided by God’s Word, they take the world back because they’re equipped with the genius of classical liberal arts and God-honoring wisdom, thanks to a faculty dedicated to academic rigor and to God’s kingdom.Find out more, at nsa.edu/
Canon Ball/Belly Flop
Reinforcements or Refugees
For those who are awake, understand that we are living in politically tumultuous times. This is particularly the case if you are living in coastal leftist states and Canada. San Diego School district has already declared students will be required to masks when school starts up a again, or they can choose Zoom school instead, DC will be requiring all students 12 and up to get the vaccine in order to attend in person classes, and Canada is resuming random COVID testing for air travelers….sort of like random TSA checks. Can you say theater COVID measures? As a side note, my friend Andrew DeBartolo, as he was flying back from the US into Canada, no one was required to wear masks until they started their descent into Toronto. So, for an hour and a half flight no one is wearing a mask and the Canadian government thinks they are fighting COVID by requiring people to wear masks the last 20min of the flight? Tyranny is not reasonable, which is why you resist it when it is in its infancy.
Before we go any further, it has to be said that our countries, US and Canada, are in this position because fathers have abdicated their responsibilities, and the church has abdicated her responsibilities in various ways. We need to learn from this, that in God’s world, if we do not follow His designed order, and in this case we are talking about how he has ordered the church, family, and civil governments, than the imbalance created by the abdication will give room to one of the other governments taking over that abdicated space. The civil government has done this very thing, as both the church and family governments have abdicated their responsibilities. Now, if we want the government to shrink, the church and families need to repent right here, in this very spot.
So, here we are. We have very difficult states like California and Washington, and in Canada the most conservative province was the province that was arresting pastors, and of course Ontario is just plain crazy. One of the things I am grateful for in all this, is that God in His kindness has brought together a lot of like minded pastors, churches, and families who understand the moment that we are in, and are trying to figure out what is the best way forward. The other thing that this COVID moment has revealed, is that a lot of Christians have put themselves in vulnerable situations and have realized that they need to make some big changes in their lives. These vulnerable situations include attending a church that has soft leadership, realizing your kids in public schools is not a good idea, not having a solide local community, fathers realizing that they have not led their family well, and so forth. This has caused a lot of social, economic, ecclesiatical and geographical movement in these last two years. A lot of people switched churches, moved to a different city, state or country, changed jobs, and more all because of the COVID shakeup.
Now if you are in one of this commie government situations, there are two categories I want you to consider. Are you a reinforcement in your land or do you need to seek refugee status in a new community? Are you in a situation where you have a good church, a good community, a good “post” to fight from? Or are you in a position of weakness, with no church, no solid classical Christian school, or like-minded community? If You have a good post to fight from, don’t leave, don’t abandon that post. Stay and fight, be an encouragement to your pastor, run for city council, figure out ways to push back.
My guest this evening is Pastor Dave Hatcher
Dave attended Washington State University where he graduated with a BA in Business Administration. He also has three years post-graduate work at Greyfriars Hall in Moscow, ID, in their pastoral training program. Dave is the Pastor of Trinity Church. Dave and his wife, Kim, have six children; five of whom are Providence graduates. Welcome to the show Pastor Dave.
- You are a pastor in one of those difficult states, the state of Washington, how has your church been thinking about these last two years, and what it looks like moving forward?
- How do you counsel a family that is processing should “I stay or move out of Washington”?
- We have emailed in the past about this subject, and I have been encouraged how positive you are about leading a church in a difficult state like Washington. Why are you so positive about your state, when they have fined your schools and made things very difficult for you?
Waterbreak team:
Rhett Burns
- When you put into context your work as a missionary to Turkey, you went into a situation that was worse, than lets say my previous guest who lives in the state of Washington. Given the context of the difference between reinforcement and refugee, Why did you go?
Jacob Daniels
- You moved from India to the US, leaving a country
News that John Branyan can Trust:
Seventy-six pregnancy centers and churches have been attacked since the Dobbs leak. Zero people have been put away.Here are the three featured ladies who changed history according to the National Women's History Museum 🥴Republicans introduce the "Unborn Child Support Act" that would allow moms to receive child support payments before giving birthMy prayer and goal for Waterbreak, is that you are encouraged to find ways to engage with your gifts and abilities, to lead with your faith and not hide it under a bushel, and to live out the Lordship of Christ in every area of life, particularly in the public square. I pray God uses you to change your city, your state, and our country.
This is the Waterboy with Waterbreak, until next Sunday, go Fight Laugh and Feast.
07/24/2022
Intro
Good evening America and Canada, welcome to Waterbreak. For those who are in crazy blue COVID states or Canada, the question I want to ask you this evening is “Are you a refugee or reinforcement?” My guest today is Pastor Dave Hatcher and most of the Waterbreak team is lined up and ready to deliver. So, grab your best scotch or Dr. Pepper and enjoy the show.
Plug:
New Saint Andrews:
Today’s culture shifts like sand. But New Saint Andrews College is established on Christ, the immovable rock. It is a premier institution that forges evangelical leaders who don’t fear or hate the world. Guided by God’s Word, they take the world back because they’re equipped with the genius of classical liberal arts and God-honoring wisdom, thanks to a faculty dedicated to academic rigor and to God’s kingdom.Find out more, at nsa.edu/
Canon Ball/Belly Flop
Reinforcements or Refugees
For those who are awake, understand that we are living in politically tumultuous times. This is particularly the case if you are living in coastal leftist states and Canada. San Diego School district has already declared students will be required to masks when school starts up a again, or they can choose Zoom school instead, DC will be requiring all students 12 and up to get the vaccine in order to attend in person classes, and Canada is resuming random COVID testing for air travelers….sort of like random TSA checks. Can you say theater COVID measures? As a side note, my friend Andrew DeBartolo, as he was flying back from the US into Canada, no one was required to wear masks until they started their descent into Toronto. So, for an hour and a half flight no one is wearing a mask and the Canadian government thinks they are fighting COVID by requiring people to wear masks the last 20min of the flight? Tyranny is not reasonable, which is why you resist it when it is in its infancy.
Before we go any further, it has to be said that our countries, US and Canada, are in this position because fathers have abdicated their responsibilities, and the church has abdicated her responsibilities in various ways. We need to learn from this, that in God’s world, if we do not follow His designed order, and in this case we are talking about how he has ordered the church, family, and civil governments, than the imbalance created by the abdication will give room to one of the other governments taking over that abdicated space. The civil government has done this very thing, as both the church and family governments have abdicated their responsibilities. Now, if we want the government to shrink, the church and families need to repent right here, in this very spot.
So, here we are. We have very difficult states like California and Washington, and in Canada the most conservative province was the province that was arresting pastors, and of course Ontario is just plain crazy. One of the things I am grateful for in all this, is that God in His kindness has brought together a lot of like minded pastors, churches, and families who understand the moment that we are in, and are trying to figure out what is the best way forward. The other thing that this COVID moment has revealed, is that a lot of Christians have put themselves in vulnerable situations and have realized that they need to make some big changes in their lives. These vulnerable situations include attending a church that has soft leadership, realizing your kids in public schools is not a good idea, not having a solide local community, fathers realizing that they have not led their family well, and so forth. This has caused a lot of social, economic, ecclesiatical and geographical movement in these last two years. A lot of people switched churches, moved to a different city, state or country, changed jobs, and more all because of the COVID shakeup.
Now if you are in one of this commie government situations, there are two categories I want you to consider. Are you a reinforcement in your land or do you need to seek refugee status in a new community? Are you in a situation where you have a good church, a good community, a good “post” to fight from? Or are you in a position of weakness, with no church, no solid classical Christian school, or like-minded community? If You have a good post to fight from, don’t leave, don’t abandon that post. Stay and fight, be an encouragement to your pastor, run for city council, figure out ways to push back.
My guest this evening is Pastor Dave Hatcher
Dave attended Washington State University where he graduated with a BA in Business Administration. He also has three years post-graduate work at Greyfriars Hall in Moscow, ID, in their pastoral training program. Dave is the Pastor of Trinity Church. Dave and his wife, Kim, have six children; five of whom are Providence graduates. Welcome to the show Pastor Dave.
- You are a pastor in one of those difficult states, the state of Washington, how has your church been thinking about these last two years, and what it looks like moving forward?
- How do you counsel a family that is processing should “I stay or move out of Washington”?
- We have emailed in the past about this subject, and I have been encouraged how positive you are about leading a church in a difficult state like Washington. Why are you so positive about your state, when they have fined your schools and made things very difficult for you?
Waterbreak team:
Rhett Burns
- When you put into context your work as a missionary to Turkey, you went into a situation that was worse, than lets say my previous guest who lives in the state of Washington. Given the context of the difference between reinforcement and refugee, Why did you go?
Jacob Daniels
- You moved from India to the US, leaving a country
News that John Branyan can Trust:
Seventy-six pregnancy centers and churches have been attacked since the Dobbs leak. Zero people have been put away.Here are the three featured ladies who changed history according to the National Women's History Museum 🥴Republicans introduce the "Unborn Child Support Act" that would allow moms to receive child support payments before giving birthMy prayer and goal for Waterbreak, is that you are encouraged to find ways to engage with your gifts and abilities, to lead with your faith and not hide it under a bushel, and to live out the Lordship of Christ in every area of life, particularly in the public square. I pray God uses you to change your city, your state, and our country.
This is the Waterboy with Waterbreak, until next Sunday, go Fight Laugh and Feast.