Fasting
28 conversations where the hosts get into fasting.
28 conversations
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Ramadan and the cultural behaviors of Christianity
- What are the cultural behaviors of Christianity that can be kept without actually having a relationship with Jesus?
Ben asks what the cultural behaviors of Christianity are that can be kept without actually having a relationship with Jesus, prompted by a Ramadan display at a halal grocery after a daddy-daughter date.
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Lent: fasting, ritual, and embodied faith
- Do I need to give something up for Lent, or am I wrong for never doing it?
- Where does the word 'Lent' come from?
A host asks whether he is wrong for never giving anything up for Lent. Another host answers at length: scripture mandates nothing, but modern fear of 'empty ritual' has cost Christians embodied habits — sackcloth and ashes, anointing, fasting, going somewhere to pray.
From No. 364 · Golden Calf Purity Rings
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Dawson's buddy; Mike on God not repeating himself; the fasting test
Dawson prays not to miss disciple-making opportunities and confesses trying to coerce a struggling friend into his own conversion pattern.
From No. 595 · Trust But Verify
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Ask the pastor: the fast God chooses in Isaiah 58
Boova reads Isaiah 58 aloud in full, then asks what to make of the seemingly different fast God describes.
From No. 507 · What’s in a Name
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Can you have spiritual disciplines without a disciplined life?
A host poses the episode's second big question: after noticing that fasting reorganizes his whole life toward intentionality -- while his Bible reading and prayer stay…
From No. 496 · Regrets
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Pope-style: money stewardship testimony
- When money troubles hit, do you ask God to solve them only within what you are willing to give?
speaker-2 (addressed as Boova/Booba in the audio) delivers his 'Pope light': hours earlier he learned he owed a large sum of money and his first reflex was to ask God to cover it…
From No. 272 · How Not to Teach Your Kids the Bible
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Pope Style: Mike on his first fast — 'I can say no'
- What advice would you give someone contemplating a fast?
After the Pope Style setup (a crowd on Mike's porch demanding pope-like wisdom), Mike tells of his reluctant first three-week fast with his wife — beans and water.
From No. 231 · Don’t Isolate in Christian Cliques
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Healing prayer, God's will, and Daniel's 21 days
Playing the site's side, the hosts acknowledge the hardest case: praying for a sick wife who still dies, and the standard Christian answer that God does what he wants.
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The Lenten fast: a hotel room with no TV and lots of prayer
A host testifies about swapping his Lenten sugar fast for a week of no TV, movies, or phone reels while at a conference: stuck in a hotel room with none of the trappings of home, he suddenly had time to pray, focus on praying, and catch up on reading.
From No. 554 · The Simple Life
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Fast substitution: gum, sodas, and nicotine mints
- Do you have to quit a habit cold turkey for it to count, or is substitution an acceptable approach?
The hosts debate whether swapping one habit for another counts as trusting Jesus or as a merely human method, pushing the analogy from energy drinks to absurd extremes.
From No. 572 · Rippin’ Heaters
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Boova's testimony, part 1: the hospital scare and the Daniel fast
Boova shares that the last two weeks have been rough: a hospital visit with blood sugar over 400 and a diabetic ketoacidosis scare led him to start a Daniel fast.
From No. 376 · People Who Don’t Know Pat Sajack
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Pope-style advice: giving to God, not just taking
- What is the last thing you really gave to God?
Boova (addressed on-air as 'Buba'), teased that friends have been telling people he is the pope, delivers his 'Pope-style advice from the Popemobile': if you cannot remember the…
From No. 256 · Six Reasons to Slow Down
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What Lent is: John Wagner walks the hosts through it
- Is Lent a biblical command from Jesus or a human tradition?
- Why do people put ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday?
John Wagner, a Methodist-church friend invited on to answer the question, explains Lent as the forty days of Christ's temptation walked toward Easter: giving something up or taking something on as a discipline, not a biblical command.
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Facebook evangelism: speaking with people, not at them
- Is commenting about Jesus on Facebook a real relationship or a substitute for one?
- Are there dos and don'ts for talking about Jesus in a Facebook comment section?
Boova raises his crossroads question: when friends pour out hurting posts on Facebook, is commenting about Jesus legitimate evangelism or a substitute for real one-on-one relationship?
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The National Atheist Convention is coming to Des Moines
- How should Christians respond to the National Atheist Convention in Des Moines — protest, engage, or pray?
The hosts discuss news that the National Atheist Convention will be held in Des Moines, at a hotel that agreed to remove the Bibles from its rooms.
From No. 28 · Godo Telefono - Prayer vs. Pancakes
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Partial fasts and the heart of fasting
Dan describes his pattern of partial fasts and admits he always hunts for a loophole, like eating onion rings four times a day.
From No. 572 · Rippin’ Heaters
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Contentment as the key; fasting discipline
Ben lands on contentment as the practical answer the article gets right: being content with what you have undercuts the chase for more, whether money or gas-station coffee in a Styrofoam cup.
From No. 535 · Solo Contendere
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Fasting loopholes: partial fasts and the Daniel Fast flatbread incident
Dan describes years of extended partial fasts and the loophole problem: no meat, no sweets, water only - then onion rings every day because they fit the list.
From No. 530 · Know Self Control
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Spiritual disciplines: the little things that add up
The hosts connect everyday discipline to spiritual practice: fasting (one host is restarting a fast with 35 people signed up), and actually praying rather than claiming a prayer life.
From No. 498 · The Tennessee Birdwalk
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Hidden sin four: Gluttony
Gluttony, the fourth item, is reframed as a heart condition rather than a weight problem: filling with anything the void God is supposed to fill.
From No. 475 · Finding Sin, Missing God
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What each host reaches for: worship, serving, fasting
One host says worship music is his reflex -- singing along until a lyric becomes a prayer or a spontaneous prayer interrupts the song.
From No. 391 · They Let Us On Legit Radio
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Renewal proposal: fasts and feasts
Proposal seven encourages Lenten and Advent fasts alongside real Easter and Christmas feasting, with collective fasts and churchwide celebrations like line dancing and food trucks.
From No. 387 · Renewing Deuces and Fearing God
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Spiritual rhythms: prayer, fasting, and the Lord's Prayer
The host follows up on his spiritual-rhythms project: prayer and fasting are not only for special requests but things God's people just do, seen in Acts when Paul and Barnabas are sent with prayer and fasting.
From No. 346 · God and Hamilton
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Discussion: friendships outside the church
Eric says friendships with non-Christians gave him perspective and filtered church rhetoric; Mike describes explaining his fast to non-Christian coworkers and coins the gap between 'church Jesus and street Jesus.'
From No. 231 · Don’t Isolate in Christian Cliques