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Celebration of Discipline The Path to Spiritual Growth Offers critical insights into how to practice twelve Spiritual Disciplines: meditation, prayer, fasting, study, simplicity, solitude, submission, service, confession, worship, guidance, and…

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What are Spiritual Disciplines? Practices for Growing in Grace

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Fasting 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 invitation, shifting our focus from the…

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Fasting: 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 way to surrender our desires to God for…

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Understanding 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 month's focus discipline.

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Streams · Fasting · Spiritual Conversations with Adult Children 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 buck,” how to discern when to fast (or…

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A Fasting on Criticalness Through fasting from criticalness, Catherine Marshall discovered the negative thinking that blocked creativity, love, goodwill, and mercy.

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The 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 God-ordained."

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Mimi Dixon — Fasting is Feasting on God Pastor and Renovaré board member Mimi Dixon reframes fasting as feasting on God in this interview with Nathan Foster.

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Spiritual 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 fasting as a way to draw his people near.

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The 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 blessings of each.

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Spiritual Formation, Fasting, and Unwanted Ill-Will James, Richella, and Nate explain spiritual formation in layman's terms, and discuss questions about fasting and struggling with feeling ill-will toward others.