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Fasting Can Change Your Life

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"Fasting Can Change Your Life" is a compilation of 33 of America's Christian leaders (including Dr. Falwell and Dr. Towns who edited this book) on how fasting has changed their personal life as well as their ministries. I own the book and have read the accounts of men and women whose lives have been changed. It has little to do with "dietary advice" it deals primarily with the spiritual aspects of fasting. In the fast paced, materialistic, self-indulgent times in which we live; fasting is a lost spiritual practice which every Christian should study and apply.

Dr. Falwell is right on in this book as he alomost always is. His passing last year was our loss and Heaven's gain. May I suggest his final book "Building A Dynamic Faith" it changed my life.

This book was a great read. It provided excellent personal testimonies from men and women that serve God and have practiced fasting for a good amount of time. It helped me with some practical advice as well as encouragement in my spiritual walk w/ the Lord through fasting. Definitely something to read if you are thinking about fasting or practice fasting but need some encouragement.

I can't help but be fascinated by both the title of this book, as the testimonies within it are wonderful- yet seeing Jerry Falwell's name seems to discredit the whole thing.

Falwell distorts the Bible for his own political purposes. He is, in fact, a politician who uses religion to enlarge and control his constituency. Fasting may well shrink his corpulent midsection, but it has done nothing to make him understand what Christ was all about.

Mr. Falwell's narrow interpretation of the Bible should be factored in when anyone considers reading a book by him. He refuses to take into account modern science, common sense, and biblical-critical methods when expositing the Bible. One would do best to try some books by Fortress Press, Abingdon Press, or Shambhala for religious insights...