Writings from some of the members of Friendswood Friends Church.
Conversations about Fasting: Jason
The following is a conversation with one of our missionaries, Jason, concerning the discipline of fasting. Click here to read past conversations with Roy Skeeter, Joyce Byrne, Joe and Sally Roher, Rochelle Bridges, Jim Towne, Becky Towne, and David Bridges. Accountability Partners & Weight Loss: I first started to regularly practice the spiritual discipline of [...]
Conversations about Fasting: Roy Skeeter
The following is a conversation with Roy Skeeter concerning the discipline of fasting. Click on the following links to read past conversations with Joyce Byrne, Joe and Sally Roher, Rochelle Bridges, Jim Towne, Becky Towne, and David Bridges. Why do you fast? Because I think it’s a good discipline and lets me focus on prayer. [...]
Conversations about Fasting: Joyce Byrne
The following is a conversation with Joyce Byrne concerning the discipline of fasting. Click on the following links to read conversations with Joe and Sally Roher, Rochelle Bridges, Jim Towne, Becky Towne, and David Bridges. Why do you fast? My general reasons for fasting center around obedience to Scripture and a desire to humble myself [...]
Conversations About Fasting: Joe and Sally Roher
The following is a conversation with Joe and Sally Roher concerning the discipline of fasting. Click on the following links to read past interviews with David Bridges, Becky Towne, Jim Towne, and Rochelle Bridges. Why fast? It is a way of practicing self-denial that is given to an apprentice of Christ. How often do you [...]
Conversations About Fasting: Rochelle Bridges
The following is a conversation with Rochelle Bridges concerning the discipline of fasting. Click on the following links to read other fasting conversations with David Bridges, Becky Towne, and Jim Towne. Why do you fast? I do not fast from food very often, but when I do, it is for the purpose of praying for [...]
Conversations about Fasting: Jim Towne
The following is a conversation with Jim Towne concerning the discipline of fasting. Click on the following links to read past interviews with David Bridges and Becky Towne. Why do you fast? I fast because I feel that it is the proper response to a situation I am facing or for a setting I am [...]
Conversations about Fasting: Becky Towne
The following is a conversation with Becky Towne concerning the discipline of fasting. (To read about the purpose of these interviews and to read past interviews, click here.) Why do you fast? I consider fasting to be not only a discipline but a way of responding to God. I love the description of the acceptable [...]
Conversations about Fasting: David Bridges
The following is a conversation with David Bridges concerning the discipline of fasting. (The Women’s Ministry Team is planning a Day of Fasting on August 11. Women are invited to fast during that day and, if they wish, to gather for a time of Open Worship and a light dinner that evening as we break [...]
Count Your Many Blessings
Many years ago a famous song evangelist was traveling with some missionaries through Africa. His assignment was to lead the praise-worship time before the missionary brought the sermon. The trip had been long. Heat and sickness had bothered the little team of itinerant travelers. The food was always of unfamiliar local flavors versus an American [...]
Remembering a Lesson I Once Heard, before I Moved to Texas
I hear you teaching about Isaiah 49:16: “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” I hear your passion as you draw the parallel between this verse and the cross. I cannot deny that it is there, the dual reference to hands: the nails in His [...]