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Episode SummaryIn this solo teaching, Coach Alex VanHouten dives deep into the spiritual and physical discipline of fasting. Too often misunderstood as either a diet trend or a hunger strike, fasting is neither—it is a God-given practice that draws us closer to His heart while transforming our health.Pulling from Scripture, modern science, and decades of coaching experience, Alex explains why Jesus said “when you fast,” not “if you fast.” You'll learn what fasting truly is, how it benefits your body and soul, and practical pro tips to start fasting well.If you've ever wondered how to move beyond the hype, fad diets, or misconceptions about fasting, this episode will help you embrace it as a lifelong spiritual discipline—done with joy, intention, and wisdom.Main Discussion Themes-Why Christians Fast: Jesus' words in Matthew 6 and examples from Moses, Daniel, and Jesus Himself.-Spiritual Purpose: Hungering for righteousness, not striking against God or earning “holy points.”-Physical Benefits: Insulin sensitivity, fat metabolism, autophagy, mental clarity, reduced inflammation, and longevity.-Psychological Benefits: Self-control, resilience, and agency over bodily drives.-Psychological Benefits: Self-control, resilience, and agency over bodily drives.-Beginner to Advanced Fasting: From time-restricted eating to 24–72 hour extended fasts.-Pro Tips: Setting intention, starting small, hydration, breaking the fast well, and fasting in community.-Who Shouldn't Fast: Safety notes for children, pregnant/breastfeeding women, and medical cases.Timestamped Outline00:00:00 Introduction to Fasting00:03:00 Spiritual Benefits of Fasting00:09:00 Physical Benefits of Fasting00:15:00 Practical Tips for Fasting00:21:00 Common Misconceptions and SafetyMove Forward Today-Take Your First Step: Start small with a 12–16 hour fast and set a clear prayerful intention.-Feast on Scripture: Replace mealtimes with time in God's Word or prayer.-Join a Community: Don't fast alone—connect with believers in the Better Daily app here: https://BetterDaily.live/invitePractice Stewardship: See fasting not as deprivation but as an act of worship and stewardship of the body God gave you.Featured Resources

First,let me thank you for your many, many prayers as we traveled this past week anda half to Egypt, to Jordan, and to Slovakia. And because of your prayers, wefelt like we had a prosperous journey. That's what Paul would ask the churchesto pray for him. He often asks prayer for safety, for deliverance from evilpeople, and also for the opportunity to share the gospel. Read the epistleswith Paul asking for prayers. My friend, prayers are answered when we believeGod for wonderful things that are according to His will. And so, I thank you somuch. It was a wonderful trip.  Someof you might remember I started a story, and I said, "You'll get the restof the story when I get back." So today, let me just finish the story ofJanet, the Egyptian lady that sat next to us in the airport at Istanbul on a three-hourlayover there. It appeared to us that just randomly, she sits next to us.  She didn't speak any English. We didn't speakany Arabic. And she sat for a while, and as we said, she asked for help withgetting a connection to her iPhone that was dead. We were able to help her withthat. Then a little later we noticed she was reading an Arabic Bible.  Sowe struck up a conversation and immediately the first thing she did was show usthe passage of scripture that she was reading and that was Colossians 1:15-18where she was reading: “He is the image of the invisible God, speaking ofJesus the firstborn over all creation for by Him all things were created thatare in heaven and that are on earth visible and invisible whether thrones ordominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him andfor Him. And He is before all things. And in Him all things consist. And He isthe head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from thedead, that in all things He may have the preeminence”. And she just keptsaying, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus." Like Jesus is everything.  Itwas difficult to understand exactly what she was saying, but my nephew Jasonbegan using his iPhone app translator with AI and we were able to then recordwhat she was saying, and it would translate it to us. And the first thing she mentioned,and was translated was: “The first time I saw him, God told me to go sit besidehim safely.” So that just amazed us that she's sharing with us is that she satthere because God told her to. And then when we asked about whether she was afollower of Jesus Christ, she replied with these words.  “Myname is Janet. I married this man when I was miles from God. Didn't even know him.(She was apparently speaking of her husband that she had married). He wouldhurt me. He was harsh, cruel stuff. Slap me, drag me by my hair, once even useda knife. And me, I wasn't blameless: cursing, lying, living rotten through andthrough. His cruelty isn't an excuse. But God helped me find a pastor, put himin my path, and I poured out everything to him, everything. And today, I thankChrist because He picked up someone like me anyway.”  Aswe began to go back and forth with her with a translator and she shared more ofher story, she said, "I need you to pray for me, my sons Tamous and Daniel,that they would know Christ." Tamius, he's been all alone since his daddied three years now. Haven't seen him. He's down with a wrong crowd. Hash anddrugs and always wanting cash. I don't live anymore without him coming back. Ijust want him to repent and turn to Jesus.” Itrust you'll put this young man Tamous in your prayers and also her son Daniel.Janet actually lives in the States in Richmond, Virginia and works in a Walmartthere. And I'm still just amazed that without any knowledge of the Englishlanguage, but thank God she's a born-again follower of Jesus Christ. What awonderful story. In Cairo we had another amazing experience at the Monastery ofSt. Simon. Our guide there told us of a miracle that took place where an entiremountain was moved by prayer alone!!!!

When Jesus approached Jerusalem for the final time, he wept bitterly over the city's spiritual blindness. His tears weren't for himself but for people who missed the peace he offered because they were consumed with politics, religion, and power. This prophetic lament came true when Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE, exactly as Jesus predicted. His example teaches us to feel deeply about brokenness, identify what's missing in our world, and move beyond tears into redemptive action. Like Jesus, we must walk toward pain and injustice to bring healing and peace.

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Every day is a chance to increase in wisdom, like the One who leads you.

In this message from our Colossians series, Pastor Aaron teaches what it truly means to live like Jesus. He emphasizes three essential aspects of a Christ-centered life: being devoted to prayer, staying clear on your God-given mission, and exercising wisdom in every action. He encourages believers to live intentionally, making choices that reflect Christ in every area of life. This message challenges us to move beyond surface-level faith and pursue a daily, active relationship with Jesus. Thank you for enjoying this life changing message from Radiant Church. We pray this moves you closer to Christ and encourages you. For more life changing resources, visit us at www.weareradiant.com.

We must no longer be casual or timid about relaying the gospel to our generation, but we must be bold and urgent about it, as Christ would have us be while there's still time in our crazy and chaotic culture.

This sermon from Philippians 2:5–11 was preached on September 28, 2025 by Samuel Parkison as part of the sermon series "Rejoice in the Lord Always."

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN: THE DEITY AND TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST"True Discipleship - Serving Like Jesus"John 13:12-17 NKJVChrist's Bible Fellowship - Barrigada, Guam USASpeaker: Pastor Avery FerrerasSunday, September 28, 2025

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Pastor Daryl Crouch, who also serves with Everyone's Wilson, helps you see the new people in your church:  the new believers, the transplants and the seekers.  How are you helping them grow to be more like Jesus.  Then, Carmen reminds us that discipleship is not a matter of taking a course in Sunday School.  Like Jesus was to His disciples, we need to be living curriculum with those we are with.  Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: Click here

This week on Four The Record: Jimmy Kimmel is back after a four day hiatus, but did it actually achieve anything? PLUS! Does Asutralia really need the US as an ally? LINKS Follow Tim Blackwell on Instagram Follow Joe Hildebrand on Instagram Read Joe's column in The Daily Telegraph Listen to The Real Story With Joe Hildebrand See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the shocking and tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, is revival coming? Is it possible that if we're not careful, this could trigger a different kind of revival, one closer to a surge of Christian nationalism? How would Jesus respond to all of this, and how can we take up his call to truly love our enemies?----------------------Ben has completely revised and updated his powerful book, Jesus in the Secular World: Reaching a Culture in Crisis—a must-read guide for anyone longing to reach those who may never step foot in a church. Packed with real-world insights and practical strategies, this book could be the breakthrough you've been searching for.Don't wait—get your copy today!Click HERE to check it out on Amazon.For more information, go to: jesusinthesecularworld.com------------------------Questions, comments, or feedback? We'd love to hear what you think! Send them to provokeandinspire@steiger.org, or send us a message on Instagram.Click HERE to receive news, thought-provoking articles, and stories directly in your inbox from Ben, David, Luke, and Chad!Click below to follow the regulars on Instagram!Ben PierceDavid PierceChad JohnsonLuke GreenwoodSend us a text

Culture is countered by Christ as Pastor Nathan teaches us how real men raze hell! If you accepted Christ we'd love to meet you! Click the link below to introduce yourself so we can help you along your faith journey! Click Here!

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Culture is countered by Christ as Pastor Nathan teaches us how real men raze hell! If you accepted Christ we'd love to meet you! Click the link below to introduce yourself so we can help you along your faith journey! Click Here!

One way to know that you have received Jesus is if you are living as He lived. Jesus' life illustrates perfectly what it means to love God and love neighbor so that if we simply do what he did we will be obeying God perfectly. We can rejoice that because Jesus came and lived the life that he did, he has shown us how to have an indestructible life that darkness cannot shake or destroy. Speaker: Minister & Senior Pastor, Jim Samra Passage: 1 John 2:3-8 This was recorded live in Grand Rapids, MI on September 21, 2025

One way to know that you have received Jesus is if you are living as He lived. Jesus' life illustrates perfectly what it means to love God and love neighbor so that if we simply do what he did we will be obeying God perfectly. We can rejoice that because Jesus came and lived the life that he did, he has shown us how to have an indestructible life that darkness cannot shake or destroy. Speaker: Minister & Senior Pastor, Jim Samra Passage: 1 John 2:3-8 This was recorded live in Grand Rapids, MI on September 21, 2025

In light of recent events in the US and around the world, Joe brings a sobering message about how to live like Jesus in dark times.

One way to know that you have received Jesus is if you are living as He lived. Jesus' life illustrates perfectly what it means to love God and love neighbor so that if we simply do what he did we will be obeying God perfectly. We can rejoice that because Jesus came and lived the life that he did, he has shown us how to have an indestructible life that darkness cannot shake or destroy. Speaker: Minister & Senior Pastor, Jim Samra Passage: 1 John 2:3-8 This was recorded live in Grand Rapids, MI on September 21, 2025

Part of a series on how to read the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus. Link to the outline for this lesson: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I_GTzPvj9g1OrXVgi47PJN91pTJGlv3P/view?usp=sharing  Visit paulwhiteministries.com for more materials and to donate to our ministry. midlandsgardenchurch.org for more information about our local church in Irmo, SC.

Join us LIVE every Tuesday at 6:30 PM EST for transforming prayer, inspirational teaching and a catalytic question for you to process. UG Live 6 - How to Pray Like JesusLearn to pray the way our Master taught us and watch your life and relationships be transformed.When Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer, He wasn't giving us empty words to recite. He was revealing the blueprint of heaven for how we can approach the Father with confidence and expectation. Each part of the prayer unlocks a dimension of God's heart and His work in our lives:The Father's CHARACTER – We begin by lifting our eyes to who He is: holy, faithful, and worthy of honor.The Father's KINGDOM – We align ourselves with His will, inviting His rule and reign into our lives, families, and communities.The Father's PROVISION – We trust Him as our source, asking boldly for our daily bread and every need to be met.The Father's FORGIVENESS – We receive mercy and extend it, keeping our hearts free and our relationships whole.The Father's GUIDANCE – We lean on Him for wisdom to walk in His ways and avoid the traps of the enemy.The Father's PROTECTION – We rest secure in His covering, knowing He delivers us from evil and keeps us safe.Prayer isn't just communication—it's communion with the Father that reshapes how we live.

This week, in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we talk about the reactions. Plus, why Ezekiel eats […]

Spiritual formation is not about mastering our own fate or striving for perfection, but about surrendering control and allowing God to do His slow, patient work in us. Sometimes change is dramatic, but more often it is gradual, as God gently heals, corrects, and cultivates Christlike character in us over a lifetime. Our practices create openings for God's grace, but it is He who transforms us from the inside out.

Philippians 2:1-5; Matthew 23:1-12 The Rev. Dan Marotta

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Take up the responsibility of being Christ's ambassador with the time you have left by working to see the people around you as in desperate need of being reconciled to God.

So much tragedy in the U.S. in the last few weeks including the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Pastor BJ Sullivan responds with a message about how Jesus responded to tragic events in his lifetime including the death of John the Baptist. Like Jesus, we can go to the shepherd who “restores our soul” (Psalm 23) and then step out in boldness like never before!

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What do you want most in life? Ask yourself, "What do I pray for?" Our prayers reveal our strongest desires. Paul said, "To live is Christ." The most important thing was to live like Jesus, so that's how he prayed for the Philippian believers. The greatest desire believers ought to have is to glorify God by growing into the image of Christ, and it ought to be the way we pray for one another.

John 8:28 So Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me. Jesus couldn't do anything apart from His Father. He didn't start things and then ask His Father to bless them. If Jesus didn't do anything on His own initiative, then that means His entire life was a life of receiving, like a child receives from his parents. Jesus punctuated this point when some parents brought their children for Jesus to bless them, and His disciples tried to prevent them from interrupting their conversation on marriage. It's in Mark 10:14-15. “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” Apparently, the attitude necessary for entering the kingdom of God is a humble, do-nothing-on-my-own-initiative attitude, knowing our Father in heaven loves us and gives us everything we need to glorify Him in and through Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus spoke what the Father taught Him, we speak what the Father teaches us through His Son. In this instance, Jesus prophesied that the Pharisees and rulers would crucify Him. That's what is meant by “lift up the Son of Man.” What will they know? They will see Jesus receive being crucified as from the Father in heaven. He will not resist. He will not act on His own initiative to get out of what the Father wills. When they see Him abiding in His Father's work, they will know that He is the Son of God and the Messiah. God has not called us to die for the sins of the world, so when difficult and dangerous situations arise, we don't naively ignore opportunities God provides to escape from them. However, when there is no avenue of escape, then we can expect God to give grace to suffer and love for those who cause it. Living to love with Jesus occurs as we abide in Him, doing nothing of our own initiative. Like Jesus, we are to receive all of life from the Father, with its circumstances and relationships, whether comforting and encouraging, or painful and grievous. We trust that He will give us the ideas, inclinations, motivations, and wisdom that each situation requires as we look to Him for grace. We glorify the Father through being most satisfied in His will and love as we receive what comes from our Father. Jesus said that apart from Him, we can do nothing (Jo. 15:5). The heart of Jesus is in us, so may we humble ourselves and wait on Him to initiate our words and actions. As we live abiding in Christ, others will know that we are children of God and disciples of Jesus Christ. I invite you to become a partner in our ministry. Would you pray about becoming a regular supporter of Elijah Ministries and the Live to Love with Jesus ministry? I hope you will receive the joy and benefit of "giving it forward," so others may receive encouragement to turn their hearts to God and to live to love with Jesus. You may give online or send a check to the address listed at www.spiritofelijah.com/donate.

Welcome to The Weekly, produced by TAB Media Group, which publishes The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines read by TAB Media Group staff and volunteers. New episodes are released weekly on Wednesday mornings. Prolific author and Bible teacher Denise George has written an eight-part series for The Alabama Baptist about how Jesus prayed. This week is the final installment of the series. This week's article "How to pray like Jesus prayed: He prayed without ceasing" is read by Daniel Gilliland and Melanie McKinney. Visit TAB Media HERE Subscribe on iTunes HERE

Send us a text In this episode, we go much deeper in our study of wisdom. Wisdom is crying in the street for the simple to come to her. Solomon tells us that wisdom is better than rubies, and anything else that could be compared to her. Wisdom begins speaking in the first person in v. 12, and continues throughout the remainder of the chapter. As a matter of fact, Wisdom sounds a lot like Jesus! If we would only listen to wisdom, we would all be wise. This study is a must for anyone wanting to know how to live to their fullest potential. Come study Proverbs 8 with us today!

In the final week of our Name Your Shark series, Pastor Curt Taylor explores the dangerous lies we often believe in the quiet corners of our hearts—lies about our worth, identity, and control. Looking at Jesus' temptation in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11), we see how the enemy uses fear to tempt us into shortcuts that pull us away from God's plan. Like Jesus, we can overcome by naming the lie, replacing it with God's Word, and believing His truth is real. The cross proves every one of Satan's lies wrong, reminding us that we are not what we have, what others think, or what we control. We are who God says we are, and His truth sets us free.

This episode is one of Pastor Jack Abeelen's recent radio broadcasts. Pastor Jack's teachings are broadcast every weekday on over 400 radio stations across the country.The Growing Thru Grace radio broadcast is an outreach of Morningstar Christian Chapel in Whittier, California.To see more of Pastor Jack's Bible studies, visit our Morningstar Christian Chapel channel at https://www.youtube.com/@morningstarcc.To subscribe to our Podcast newsletter go to http://eepurl.com/iGzsP6.If you would like to support our electronic ministry, you may do so by going to our donations page at https://morningstarcc.churchcenter.com/giving/to/podcast.Visit our church website at https://morningstarcc.org.

Favor From God Comes Before Favor With Man God's favor changes everything. Before we ever find favor with people, we first walk in favor with Him. That's the divine order—and even Jesus modeled it.

This episode is one of Pastor Jack Abeelen's recent radio broadcasts. Pastor Jack's teachings are broadcast every weekday on over 400 radio stations across the country.The Growing Thru Grace radio broadcast is an outreach of Morningstar Christian Chapel in Whittier, California.To see more of Pastor Jack's Bible studies, visit our Morningstar Christian Chapel channel at https://www.youtube.com/@morningstarcc.To subscribe to our Podcast newsletter go to http://eepurl.com/iGzsP6.If you would like to support our electronic ministry, you may do so by going to our donations page at https://morningstarcc.churchcenter.com/giving/to/podcast.Visit our church website at https://morningstarcc.org.

We should desire to be like Jesus in our values, beliefs, character, and behavior. The only way we can be imitators of God is that we would follow him. We must come to know Him. We must learn from Him, and it's only then that we will know what to imitate.Main Points:1. In some ways, we cannot be like God. You and I will never be all-knowing or all-powerful. We will never be omnipresent. We cannot be unchangeable like God. But there are characteristics of God that we can emulate. 2. We can imitate His characteristics like love, kindness, forgiveness, generosity, patience, grace, and mercy. We can be like God by living in purity, righteousness, and holiness. 3. To imitate God means that we follow his example, and we should follow it closely. When we were born again, we entered into his family. We belong to God, and we bear his name.Today's Scripture Verses:Ephesians 5:1 - “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.”Romans 12:2 NLT - "Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”Ephesians 4:13 - "...“become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” Quick Links:Donate to support this podcastLeave a review on Apple PodcastsGet a copy of The 5 Minute Discipleship JournalConnect on SocialJoin The 5 Minute Discipleship Facebook Group