Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 16, 2024 Full-Stride Freedom The point is to listen to the Spirit about what to fast and what to hold fast, what to release and what to retain. Christ has set us free to live a free life…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 8, 2018 Can Intellectual and Spiritual Mix? Sometimes the intellectual life and spiritual life are needlessly pitted against one another. Dallas Willard reconciles the two in a timeless speech commending…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 25, 2018 Becoming Dallas Willard Dallas Willard gets mentioned a lot around here. With good reason—it's just not often you come across "a person with the rare combination of exceptional…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 18, 2018 Holy Hunger Do you see what God wants to bestow on us if we'd only give him the room to do so? He withholds no good thing from us, but sometimes our lives are too full to…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 11, 2018 Feasting on God Fasting as the voluntary denial of normal functions for intense spiritual activity, extending beyond food to media and smartphones, serves as a key to the…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeReward Sibanda — How to FastFebruary 14, 2025
Reward Sibanda joins Nathan on the Life With God podcast to share his insights on fasting as a God-designed process of total surrender through which our… -
Podcast EpisodeStreams · Fasting · Spiritual Conversations with Adult Children
July 25, 2022
In this month’s episode of Friends in Formation, Nate, Richella, and James answer listener questions about which Christian Stream “gives the most bang for the… -
Podcast EpisodeSpiritual Formation, Fasting, and Unwanted Ill-Will
April 26, 2021
James, Richella, and Nate explain spiritual formation in layman's terms, and discuss questions about fasting and struggling with feeling ill-will toward others. -
Podcast EpisodeSarah Bowling — Turning The Volume Up On GodJune 4, 2018
"It's a way to clean the engine... it hones... It's a rich adventure." That's how Sarah Bowling, founder of a global humanitarian organization called Saving… -
Podcast EpisodeMimi Dixon — Fasting is Feasting on GodMay 13, 2018
Pastor and Renovaré board member Mimi Dixon reframes fasting as feasting on God in this interview with Nathan Foster.
Articles
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ArticleConsecration From How to Fast "One decisive yes in fasting is a definitive no to anything in our thoughts, attitudes, and appetites misaligned with Him," writes Reward Sibanda.
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ArticleBecoming God’s Dwelling Place A Profile of Anna the Prophet Luke's gospel introduces us to Anna, an eighty-four year old prophet, who models "a life focused in mind, body, and activity on engaging with God."
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ArticleFasting Unto God Fasting, like all spiritual disciplines, must be initiated and led by the Spirit. Arthur Wallis counsels readers to fast only in response to the Divine…
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ArticleFasting: A Practical Guide “Fasting is a way to lay down an appetite”— an appetite of the body, mind, or spirit. Adele Calhoun offers practical advice on the discipline of fasting as a…
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ArticleThe Purpose of Fasting In this excerpt from Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster helps us see that "fasting must forever center on God. It must be God-initiated and…
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ArticleHoly Hunger Fasting from food or media can open the way for healing Chris Hall encourages us to unplug in the most literal sense and fast in small ways from media. How might your mind and spirit be transformed by abstaining…
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ArticleA Fasting on Criticalness Through fasting from criticalness, Catherine Marshall discovered the negative thinking that blocked creativity, love, goodwill, and mercy.
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ArticleSabbath Is a Way of Life In this excerpt from The Great Omission, Dallas Willard unpacks the meaning of Sabbath and explores how Sabbath practices open us to God's gracious provision…
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ArticleUnderstanding Fasting "Fasting is the voluntary denial of an otherwise normal function for the sake of intense spiritual activity." Richard Foster explains the what and why of this…
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ArticleSpiritual Disciplines Index: Fasting We have broken out the topics in the Spiritual Disciplines Index for your convenience. From the earliest days of Israel through Revelation, God has used…
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ArticleEscaping Compulsions Our endless cycle of resolution against, struggle with, and losing to our deeply ingrained compulsions can feel a bit like being confined with a gorilla. We…
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ArticleThe Wonderful Freedom of Fasting “Fasting: Twentieth Century Style” In this transcript from an address given to Southern Baptists in 1983, Richard Foster looks at the meaning and many forms of fasting and the challenges and…
