Tremendous Tracey
The Purge: Why Every Leader Needs to Fast
When our pastor called our church body to a five-day fast, I heard God say clearly: you are doing this, and you will finish.
Every solo attempt had failed. But something was different this time — we were doing it as a corporate body.
What I expected was five days of misery. What I got was the most productive, clear-headed, spiritually explosive week of my life.
Arthur Wallis wrote nearly sixty years ago that the body, mind, and spirit are in a constant state of either assimilation or elimination. That's not just biology. That's leadership.
How much of what we consume — information, entertainment, food, noise — is surplus fat? How much is waste we've been too busy to eliminate?
It is spring. It is Easter season. Time to purge.
Opportunity or Distraction?
All the glitters is not gold, and it is essential we learn to discern an opportunity from a distraction, so we don’t waste our precious time, talents, and talk.
The Hunger Games
Over the past year I’ve met a handful of people who have shared the transformative power of fasting in their lives. The more I heard the more intri...
