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Fasting for a Spiritual Purpose

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  • Sipke Alserda

The spiritual purpose of fasting is about your relationship with the Lord. Fasting should be a sign of humility with repentance and dependence on the Lord. The practice of fasting may be both a personal or congregational humbleness and lowliness before the Lord. Read more about godly fasting.

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1 John 2:15 – A New Kind of Fasting

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  • Al Baker

This article reflects on 1 John 2:15, and proposes a new kind of fasting.

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A Call to Prayer and Fasting

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  • Gary H. Milne

This article is about the place of prayer and fasting in personal and congregational life.

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Fasting

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  • Joseph A. Pipa

Should Christians today fast? What is the purpose of fasting?

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Physical Fasting: Spiritual Feasting

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  • Ronald C. Christie

This article on fasting looks at the importance of fasting for our devotional life. Mark 2:16-22 and what Jesus Christ said about fasting is also discussed.

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The Value of Fasting

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  • Wes L. Bredenhof

This article gives the benefits of fasting for the Christian.

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Ten Things You Should Know about Fasting

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  • Sam Storms

What does the Bible say about fasting? This article lists ten things, underlining the great spiritual value of such a discipline.

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Three Fundamental Reasons to Recover Fasting

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  • Chad A. Francis

Why should Christians fast? Fasting creates a hunger to experience more of God. This article gives three reasons for recovering fasting in the Christian life.

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The Importance of Enough

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  • Jared Wilson

True fasting is joyful fasting for one primary reason: it is worship of God. How can Christian practice this type of fasting? This article discusses what hinders Christians from fasting, and it distinguishes false fasting from true fasting.

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What Exactly Is Christian Fasting?

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  • Lyndon Unger

This article surveys every passage in Scripture with a reference to fasting, and offers insight on how Christians today might interact with the biblical data.

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Prayer and Fasting

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  • Ronald H. Hanko

Should Christians fast? Fasting has a place in the Christian life and Christians are expected to fast. This article explains the spiritual purpose of fasting, and then it discusses the relationship between fasting and prayer.

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Fast from Food, Not Facebook

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  • Tim Challies

Fasting is an expected discipline for Christ’s followers. It is the discipline of refraining from a specific thing for a specific time and a specific reason. This article unpacks this definition.

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Fasting: A Neglected Discipline

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  • John A. Haverland

Fasting is the voluntary denial of food for a spiritual purpose. This article will help you understand reasons why this discipline is neglected, will give biblical grounds and examples for fasting, and will give reasons for fasting.

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Fasting in an Age of Fast Food

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  • Daniel R. Hyde

Should Christians fast? Based on the teaching of Christ on fasting, Christians are called to fast freely, seriously, humbly and prayerfully.

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What Role Can and Should Fasting Have in a Christian's Life? Are we missing out on something if we do not fast?

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  • Willem den Hollander

What role can and should fasting have in a Christian's life? This article looks at fasting in the New Testament.

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A Call to Fast for Humility and Power

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  • John Piper

The people of God are called to humble themselves and seek His face - not just once, but always. This article discussing how fasting leads to humility.

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Fasting – Guidelines for Reformed Christians

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  • Harvey Albert Smit

Should Christians fast? This article gives some perspective from the Scriptures and church history.

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Fasting

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  • John Ross

Fasting is a discipline that is commended for Christians. This article gives different forms of fasting to help Christians use this discipline in the right way.

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Keep the Fast, Keep the Feast

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  • Peter J. Leithart

This article considers the exercise of fasting, and its connection in Scripture to feasting. It dwells on Adam's original fast in the garden, and how that was intended to prepare him to enjoy the banquet to come.

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Forty Days and Forty Nights

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  • Jan Huijgen

From Deuteronomy 9:9 this article links the fasting of Moses to that of Elijah and Jesus Christ, showing how it speaks about God’s grace and how Christ fulfilled it.

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