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Fasting: Lavish Your Food on the Hungry
5/22/2013

Isaiah 58 says that we must practice the acts of religion (almsgiving, fasting, and prayer) because of our love for God and neighbor. And these acts must be directed toward God rather than toward the recognition of people. This passage from Isaiah is essentially a foretaste of the gospel—the grace of the Holy Spirit poured out upon us because of our faith in Christ, which works through love (

Clear Thinking from Inside a Fish—Jonah 2:8
5/18/2013

Often I see the truth most clearly when my situation is most dire. When God sends a life crisis my way, it helps me see what matters to him and how I need to change. The same may be true for you, though I suspect we’d all rather avoid the crisis and learn from someone else’s trauma—like that of the prophet Jonah.

Jonah famously had a life crisis in the form of a most unpleasant encounter with a large fish. The sto...