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Fasting is oftentimes an overlooked spiritual discipline in the modern world. Fasting also has many mixed messages around it, the main contributor being diet culture’s emphasis on the pursuit of intentional weight loss. One thing that is certain, though, is that fasting is important to God. In fact, it is mentioned over 70 times throughout the Bible and as you observe Jesus’ life, He fasted! In Luke 4, Jesus fasted “for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothi

What is “gluttony”? If there is freedom in Christ, even with food and body image, how do we accept gluttony as a sin? Is overeating a sin? What about binge eating? These words do not all mean the same thing. My intention is to define all of these terms and give a better understanding of what all of these words actually mean, without the lens of diet culture. Gluttony is a sin, but we need to have a better understanding of what gluttony really is (and is not). Overeating i