I fought long and hard against the Word of Faith movement (Hagen, Copeland, Roberts, et al.) all through the late 70’s and 80’s. It embedded itself in our church through the people who came in during the healing revival and since the Rector was a relatively new Christian (despite seminary, or maybe because of it)…
Category: Fasting
Christianity, Fasting
Fasting as the Preparation for Spiritual Warfare
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Many people think of fasting as an exercise in healthy living or physical restoration. While those are true and indeed useful, I believe they are the side-effects, not the real purpose of biblical fasting. There are two biblical examples I want to use to illustrate my point. The first is the fast of Jesus in…
Christianity, Fasting, Personal
The Art of Fasting
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When you mention the word fasting the first thing that usually comes to mind is absence of food, but fasting can literally be from anything, including by way of example: Televisions Movies Video games Reading Blogging Work Entertainment in general Telephone use Talking Seeing (giving your eyes a rest) People [enter what stimulates you here]…
Fasting, Lent '08
Lent 2008: First Sunday – My Weakness, His Strength
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Traditionally Sundays are not part of Lent, they are break from the discipline, a brief peak into Easter, initially so far off on the horizon. They are a rest days, a true break fast, which is where the word breakfast comes from, breaking our overnight fast. Today we take a break from the previous six…