Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Okay, well this represents a number of teachings that I did back when I was a pastor at

the Dorf Hope Church and we did a short series on key spiritual practices, habits of life that have

marked followers of Jesus throughout many different church traditions, Protestant, Orthodox,

Catholic throughout the history of the church.

Here's what all Christians of all different traditions have agreed on as the habits that

foster and cultivate a healthy devotion to Jesus.

And what are those?

And let's explore them.

And so here's what we did.

We did a number of themes.

These three episodes focus on the balanced practices of prayer and fasting and solitude.

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