Lifestyle Media Group’s 2026 Themes
Imagine if every few weeks you could download updates for your life. Bugs would be fixed. You’d have performance improvements and greater security over the “sin that so easily besets us”. Aaaand, you’d get awesome new features that aren’t just really cool, they were clearly designed for you from the very beginning.
Now – let God expand your vision for your reality — the latest version of you. This world’s files are corrupted by hate, unhealthy habits, selfishness, arrogance, and many other mindsets and attitudes that kill, steel and destroy. With Christ you can have life and have it more abundantly.
Please note: this is not prosperity-gospel name-it-and-claim-it hype. To live like Christ requires critical updates. Cutesy feel-good faith and fitness is counterfeit! Ouch? Heck yeah! And those “mission trips” where you post about how blessed you are to be doing good for others? Well the mission just got a facelift where “should you choose to accept it” is impossible. Here’s some food for thought to plant in your homesteader ambitions: God has genetically engineered you to grow exponentially. That ‘self-sufficient lifestyle app’ running in the background is what’s keeping you from being totally dependent on God’s Spirit and gaining powerful maturity. And for you outdoor fun-atics, get ready, because God’s latest version of adventure for you is more challenging, dangerous, and costly.
Yeah, God wants to introduce some serious new ‘spiritual technology’ to your life AND your lifestyle this year. We want the 2026 issues of Lifestyle Media Group’s 4 magazines (along with your regular Bible reading, praying and faithful living) to center you, give you what you want and redefine comfort. Don’t just hope for something better, anticipate it and own it now!
Take a look below and see what to expect from Lifestyle Media Group in 2026. Pray and ask God what stories you can share with our community and CONTACT US, because the latest version of you may also mean that you serve as a ‘developer’ with our team.
SPRING 2026
Right Smack Dab In The Center
Here at Lifestyle Media Group we’ve been working for years to help people understand the difference between faith-based and Christ-centered. It’s much more than semantics.
In current culture faith-based is little more than a token-nod, an expression of some vague, ancient and likely elusive ideal. It pretty much means whatever you want it, which means it doesn’t mean a whole lot of anything at all.
Christ-centered on the other hand delivers incredible value to you AND others. It’s not a label to wear, it’s a God-calling deserving of your undistracted attention and enthusiastic whole-hearted commitment. It’s not a trendy and endearing way to market your lifestyle. It is unfiltered and humble obedience and it looks, feels and performs exactly like that. It smacks with obsession for Christ – and you know what? You can wear that identify – fully!
Don’t be satisfied to do your fitness, travel, gardening or outdoor lifestyle with simply a little Jesus flavor added – God sure isn’t satisfied with that.
This is the time and season to update to the latest version of you. Download only from God the certified and trusted source. Put Christ right smack dab in the center of your lifestyle.
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SUMMER 2026
I want …
We say it when we pull up to the drive through menu board, when we discipline children, and when we think about that thing that we really want and need: a vacation, a pay raise … a better life. Maybe you remember when you said, “I want…” as a child and that bully interrupted, “Who cares what you want!”
Well guess what? God does, big time! In fact God put the I want… in each of us. Unfortunately, more times than we’d like to admit, the I want… get’s corrupted by frustration, anger, vanity, stubbornness, lack of wisdom and perhaps most often by selfishness.
The good news is that when that happens God is right there ready to help you update to the latest version of you.
Let Summer 2026 be the season you discover a new depth and greater potential in the example Jesus Christ gave us, “Not what I want Father, but what you want.” How you move, where you go, the life you grow, the adventures, challenges and experiences, all of it – what God wants is for you to follow him and want Him more fully every day.
Does that require surrender? Yes! Will it be painful? Probably. Why do it? Because it’s what you want.
AUTUMN 2026
Blessed, Privileged and the new COMFORTABLE
Microchips, Red Bull, extreme wealth… We live in a time that is fast, dangerous and driven by concentrated influence. Many love it and yet many more fear that it has gone way too far. A world where we’ve lost control of evolution, adrenaline and power.WE have! That seemingly bitter truth (for human ‘civilization’) is by God’s grace and providence the sweet spot to celebrate. Why?
Well take a good look because the momentum of God’s Spirit moving in the world right now is unprecedented. People are beyond thirsty, hungry, longing … desperate for hope, more, real … God. They are ready to update, beyond what you could ever imagine, for not just a better version of life but the ultimate and true life in Christ. With confidence you can boldly and with eagerness be the life of Christ, right now – where you are – each day. You’re blessed to live in a time that is “ripe unto harvest” – that’s right, big outcomes baby!!!
In the Autumn 2026 issues of Lifestyle Media Group’s magazines our contributors share how you can discover how being blessed is – just the beginning. You are privileged to … carry the burdens of others, pray for the broken hearted, come alongside the weak and lost, speak life into those confused and desperate and discover what it means to suffer like Christ.
Let’s commit to do it well and do it for the long haul, like for the rest of our lives because this isn’t meant to be an ‘experience’ or a test of your will and it’s certainly not a heroic and noble, “’I’ can do this”. God wants this deeper way of living for you to be the new comfortable.
WINTER 2026
ANTICIPATE – own it now!
Back in 1976 Heinz Ketchup released a commercial campaign featuring the chorus of the 1971 Carly Simon song Anticipation. It was so popular they kept doing related commercials for over 20 years. The hook, “anticipation – it’s making me wait”, celebrates patiently enduring with eagerness. We expect that when we put forth diligent effort we’ll achieve a desirable outcome. But positivity has it’s limits. Exercise can lead to injury, the best made travel plans can go south, a well tended garden doesn’t always produce and the cost to benefit ratio of outdoor adventures often doesn’t truly add up.
Here’s where God makes a defining difference. To anticipate, especially from a Christ-centered perspective, means to take action before something happens, to take into possession beforehand. It’s not just expecting, it’s the active and confident act of preparing – and the Bible talks a lot about it. Anticipate the miracles of God.
The Winter 2026 magazines from Lifestyle Media Group bring vibrant stories and transformational insights to help you take the thing you anticipate, acknowledge God and own it now! This is a shift from “standing in faith” for someday to being the person who trusts in Jesus Christ to do what he did – and even greater works. That’s right it’s time to believe AND do the work – both, and do them both immediately – right now!
