The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

Now you remember we started a year and a half ago with the first module on, we actually started with physical health.

And we launched the Daniel Plan, on which you have now gotten a whole lot healthier.

In fact, our church has lost over 280,000 pounds.

In fact, this week, Time Magazine, seven pages on the Daniel Plan.

This week in Time Magazine.

So you might look in there, there's some pictures of members, healthy people, wow.

You need this picture.

Okay, all right, all right, you need this picture.

We have more tithers probably in this church than I've ever heard of in any other church.

And everything that we've done in 39 years all around the world, going to 197 countries and starting Celebrate Recovery and starting the Daniel Plan and AIDS and mental health initiatives and purpose-driven and all the things we've done, everything we've done 39 years has been funded by the regular tithes and sacrificial offerings of our people.

We've never ever done, quote, a fundraiser, like a bake contest and a car wash and all those things.

Now, today, as we begin this series on God's amazing promises, I had to start with the most common promise, which is about generosity.

Now we decided to start with the physical, because if you're out of energy, you don't have any strength to do all the other changes in your life.

And so you remember at the beginning of this year, we started with a series on physical health, and we launched what was the Daniel Plan.

Over 12,000 of you have signed up for that, and you actually are looking better and better every week.

I'm going to tell you, I don't want to say that our church is shrinking, but it is.

because we've lost about a quarter of a million pounds in fact if you're doing the Daniel plan sometime during a boring part of this sermon pull out a a little card and write down a progress report for me okay we want to add up all of the pounds lost and if you have been a part of this you've lost them and actually let us know because we're actually going to make a video and we're going to do some before and after pictures kind of like the Jenny Craig you know shot before and after and Before I was a hunk of burning love.

Now I'm a tinier hunk of burning love.

Anyway, so we've done physical.

Discernment Ministries raised concern a decade ago.

when a man co-authored the Daniel Plan 40 Day to a Healthier Life with, wait for it, Pastor Rick Warren and Dr.

Mark Hyman.

Lighthouse Trails Research reported at the time, Dr. Amen is a proponent of tantric sex, which is the combining of sexual activity with mystical practices, which is probably the most extreme form of meditation.

Court documents later indicated that a settlement estimated at least at estimated at Lee at less than three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

In a recorded interview, physician Mikhail Versharsky asked Amen, quote, do you not feel that it is an issue that there is no randomized control data? Amen operates 11, there's that number, 11, 11 clinics and has marketed heavily, listen up, to faith-based audiences.

The Daniel Plan reached number one on the New York Times bestsellers list and stayed there for 20 weeks.

his personal real estate holdings, and here's where his wealth tells on him.