30 four 30 challenge finishers!

We are so proud of the finishers of the #30for30challenge (16 total). Each overcame various obstacles and common excuses and completed the daily challenge one day at a time for 30 days. For some this was the first challenge like this they’ve completed! One of the great things about challenges is that, once you complete […]

Angela has beaten the odds & so can you!

Angela Morrell has done in the past 2 years what she and so many others have tried repeatedly, but never been able to do. She has chosen to live in the boundaries that God has designed for her one day at a time. The result has been amazing. Her body has used the stores of energy […]

New Men’s Group Training

  IRON SHARPENS IRON Join our NEW Men’s Group Circuit Training on Fridays at 5:00AM at the Fortified Studio. No matter what your current fitness level is, start training with a supportive group of men! Together we will encourage one another physically & spiritually to choose intentional living day by day.  (Contact Wayne for more info – 615-202-2486) This […]

Boundaries Like a Fortified City

Outside God’s designed boundaries are danger, death, heartache and senseless struggle. His loving boundaries protect like a Fortified City, like a fortified wall around Jerusalem. Abide. Trust. Live life to the full, in the full freedom of your redemption. if you are a Christ-follower, you are & i am I AM fortified – let’s live […]

MASTERPIECE 5-Part Series

MORE CLASSES COMING IN 2016… Join Fitness Trainer Wayne Burns and inspiration Angela Morrell (Angela has lost over 160 lbs in 2 years) for a MASTERPIECE CLASS SERIES. Come and hear Angela’s inspiring and encouraging story of going from felling hopeless about her weight to completing her first Half Marathon. You will quickly understand that her transformation is not about weight lost […]

30 Day BE STILL Challenge

Take the 30 day BE STILL challenge.  Set a timer for 20 minutes… stop being busy and sit down with your Bible and maybe a devotional or Worship music and spend uninterrupted time with Jesus.  You will be absolutely amazed at what God will do in your life as you stir intimacy with THE ONE who […]

Carrying Around a Full Grown Man

As of August 25, 2014, Angela Morrell hit a milestone and has dropped over half her body weight since our first meeting on November 20, 2012.   She has lost as much as I CURRENTLY WEIGH – Like she was carrying a WAYNE BURNS ON HER BACK!   I am so proud of her intentional daily living in the […]

Weight loss: simple, sustainable, bankable

Weightloss according to God’s design of the body  simple, sustainable, bankable. Food is fuel – Eat on purpose. i hear some talk about tracking calories as “prison” or a burden BUT i would encourage you to look at it as a TOOL to measure your calorie intake. if you don’t know the truth of where you […]

Couch Mode VS Beast Mode

I talk to alot of people about fitness & weight loss & wanted to share the journey God is leading me on past and present. feeling heavy Around 5 yrs ago I was at my heaviest not just physically but mentally. I had no motivation. I felt tired, oppressed, lethargic, and defeated. My wife and I […]

What a Difference a Year Makes

1 YEAR AGO these ladies and I met at this very location to do a practice run for the Bruce Gilley Run For Him 5K – they aspired to be runners and now they are inspiring others! THEY ARE RUNNERS NOW! and I am honored to be here with them a year later to celebrate […]