August 2018 COMPLIMENTARY Top Tips for Getting Healthy SEC Nation’s LAUREN SISLER The “Spirit of Music” Lives in Bon Aqua ® BRING THE FAMILY TO BON AQUA FOR A FEST OF FALL FUN HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday 10:30 to last entry October 5 & 6 3:00; as long as guests arrive by 3:00, they get the full The Storytellers Music Festival tour experience. storytellersmusicfest.com A tour includes a video of the history and signifi cance of the location, a live concert by our in-house musi- October 26, & 27 cians, and the tour of the Museum. Guests then move The Storytellers Bon Aqua Bluegrass Festival almost a mile up the road to the Hideaway Farm, and bonaquabluegrass.com tour the Farmhouse. storytellersmuseum.com • 931-996-4336 OUR MISSION Nashville Christian Family ® exists to provide Christians and the com- munity at large with ways to strengthen and grow as a part of the Publisher: Robert Stringfellow • 615-815-8765 Middle Tennessee Christian Family. This local monthly publication is [email protected] designed to promote positive living by sharing with readers of all ages Editor: Raymonda Jaggers relevant and timely news and information related to health, faith, Contributing Writers: parenting, youth, finances, Christian entertainment, missions, church leaders, and much more. Anthony “Tony” Bouquet Jason Lindsey Dashia B. Brandon Jackie Monaghan Jennifer Burns Frank Odrobina FROM THE PUBLISHER Jim Catalano, Esq. Mark Simpson Paige Collins Ashton Tate Ben Graham Jean Thomason “It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just Doug Griffin Kelley Rose Waller when I am with you.” Galations 4:18 (NIV) Brittney Griffy Ming Wang, MD, PhD Dan Kalman August has rolled around again and Darlene A. Kemp, MPH, I am getting excited because I know MBA-HCM that in less than a month, college football will kick off and another Production and Art Direction: Wendy Satterwhite exciting season will begin. 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Visit www.ChristianFamilyNashville.com [email protected] August 2018 3 CONTENTS August 2018 VOLUME 9, NUMBER 10 DEPARTMENTS 3 From the Publisher 20 Parent With Purpose The Power of Praise 6 Faith at Work Truly Blessed 21 City Scene Photo: Scott Clarke/ESPN Images End of Summer Fun 6 The Home Front Is Technology Interfering With 22 Healthy Living ON THE COVER 16 Your Romantic Relationship • Swimming Up Stream • So You Want to Build Some Best known as the “SEC Nation” pregame 10 Family Matters Muscle? reporter who sits alongside Tim Tebow, Mar- Focused Time Together cus Spears and Paul Finebaum on football 23 Hassle Free Zone Saturdays, Lauren Sisler shares how her faith 11 Body & Soul How and When to Change Your in Christ carried her through tremendous grief Choosing Good Memories Home’s Air Filters and led her to serve as an addiction prevention 6 advocate. See page 16. 14 Our House 25 Kid’s Korner Foundation Quiz Questions God’ Glow 12 The “Spirit of Music” Lives in Bon Aqua 14 Legal Matters 27 Teachable Moments 22 Healthy Living Why Having a Will Means Are You Unemployed? Protecting Your Family Have You Asked Yourself Why? SPECIAL FEATURES 19 An Encouraging Word 27 God’s Plan For Salvation and Fruit From the Same Tree Eternal Life 6 3D Kamra: New Eye Procedure 19 Money Matters 30 Calendar 11 Michael W. Smith, TBN What’s Quality of Life Worth? Host Free Concert It’s Pricelless! 30 About Our Advertisers 12 The “Spirit of Music” Lives in Bon Aqua NEXT ISSUE 11 available online! You’re favorite place on the web for American Ninja Warrior Christian content about Eddy Stewart Family, Parenting, Social Issues, & MUCH MORE! Healthy Living and Much More! 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Truly Blessed Technology can and has interfered with intimacy within a relationship. A 2014 Pew Research Center poll found that one in four cell phone owners in a relationship or marriage found their partner too distracted by their cell phones, one and ten argued about the time their partner spent on devices while in the company of the other, and those younger reported that it brings tension and enhances closeness to their relationship, but also can create a dis- traction for the relationship. In one research article, they conducted a study with a sample of 143 married/cohabiting women, overall about 70% of the women in their sample said that technology interfered in their relationship with their partner at least sometimes or more often. • 62% said technology interferes with their leisure time together. • 40% said their partner gets distracted by the TV during a conversation. • 35% said their partner will pull out his phone if he receives a notification even if they are in the middle of a conversation. • 33% said their partner checks his phone during mealtimes that they spend together. • 25% said their partner actively texts other people during the couple’s face- to-face conversations. Technology takes away from the emotional connection that is forged together by couples through body language, nonverbal communication, tone of voice, and facial expressions that are essential to relationships and can not be repli- cated through or with technology. What type of boundaries regarding technology need to be created in your “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. relationship? Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole 1.