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Fasting The Ancient Practices
By Scot McKnight, Phyllis Tickle
Published by Thomas Nelson
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On 2/24 Chris Horton wrote: Scot McKnight is easily becoming one of my favorite authors. And he tackles a subject that while I have practiced, is not easily understood among many Christians.As is McKnight's practice, he takes a difficult subject and makes it easy to understand. He tackles some areas of fasting that were new to ... Book Review: Fasting by Scot McKnight
On 2/24 Mark Kim wrote: Fasting - A verb. To abstain from food or drink for a determined amount of time for the purpose of... well, do you know? That's what Scot McKnight wants to get at the heart of in Fasting, a Thomas Nelson publication. Matthew 6:16-18 gives an interesting little note about fasting: When you fast, do ... A Great Resource and Primer on Fasting
On 2/23 Steven Chance wrote: As an avid reader, I receive free books from Thomas Nelson Publishing in exchange for honest and candid reviews. Scot McKnight’s book, FASTING, is one of the best I have ever read. I have been a student of the Bible for over forty years, and throughout the time of reading this book, I kept thinking, ... Great Read
On 2/23 Janet Reeves wrote: I've been curious about fasting for some time, knowing it’s a spiritual discipline practiced in the Bible and throughout history, but the reasoning behind it is something I haven’t been able to grasp. It always sounded to me as if people were saying that if I sincerely wanted something from God, ... Book Review: Fasting
On 2/23 TJ Reid wrote: Fasting is… It seems like we all fill in the blank for that, because honestly most of us don’t have much of a clue of what it is anyways. For me, I have filled in that blank with words like: torture, bargaining device with God, hard to do, helping God to answer me. Scot McKnight’s book really ... Fasting is Awesome
On 2/21 David Wilson wrote: Fasting is a spiritual discipline that is much explored, but seldom practiced in contemporary Western Christianity. But it wasn’t always so. For the first sixteen centuries of church history, abstaining from food and drink for spiritual reasons was a common practice for believers. But something happened. ... Book review: Fasting
On 2/21 Marsha wrote: Our church started a 40 day fast the beginning of this year and I was very interested in learning more about fasting. I got this book off of Book Sneeze and agreed to read and review it. Fasting is something that has been put on the back burning of today’s worship. Most people don’t know much about ... Fasting by Scot Mcknight
On 2/19 lepal wrote: The disciples of Jesus attempted and failed to cast out a demon from a man's son. They questioned him privately as to why they failed. Jesus told them this kind of demon could only come out by prayer and fasting (Mark 9). The scribes and the Pharisees of Jesus' day questioned him about fasting (Luke ... Book Review: Fasting; The Ancient Practice Series
On 2/19 michael.wms0216 wrote: In Fasting, McKnight reveals fasting as a responsive act, a natural response to grief. Body Plea, Body Turning, Body Grief, Body Discipline, all practices of the act of fasting and Scot dives deep into the history of the people of God as they unify themselves as a body of believers in worship. Fasting ... body poverty
On 2/18 Ann wrote: Well, I've gotten a second free book to review! This one is from Booksneeze! Here's the review I posted:I wanted to read this book because I had decided to fast once again for Lent this year. And since I've never actually read anything on the topic, I thought I'd actually do some research this time. ... Fasting