Fasting practice: Supplemental reading
We’re continuing our practice of fasting with a reading from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, a helpful guide for exploring the habits that have shaped believers for centuries. In this short chapter, Calhoun traces fasting through Scripture, from Old Testament saints who fasted in times of grief and need, to Jesus in the wilderness, to the early church seeking God’s direction.
Calhoun: The Fasting Practice
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