Simplicity

Podcast: Can Divine Simplicity Apply to a God Who IS Love and IS Relational?

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Greg distinguishes practices from beliefs, and warns Christians about the evils of Christmas trees and shaking hands. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0353.mp3

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25 Baby Steps Toward Simplicity

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Lutz Koch via Compfight If you’re embarking on a journey of greater simplicity in your life, the task can seem daunting. It can be tempting to give up before you really even get started. Where…

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Showing Up

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Jonathan Kos-Read via Compfight Shauna Niequist over at  Donald Miller’s Storyline blog shared some thoughts on Why You Should Stop Waiting for Life to be Perfect. She points out that sometimes this waiting for perfection gets…

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Becoming Unbusy

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 ZeroOne via Compfight Joshua Becker posted A Helpful Guide to Becoming Unbusy that we thought was wonderful. If you’re finding yourself mindlessly going from one task to the next with no time to take a…

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Simple Holidays

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Lawrence OP via Compfight Here’s a reflection from Joshua Becker on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing During the Holidays. From the article: Surely, each of us will define our holiday most important differently. Many will…

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Remembering that We are Finite

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Here’s a little reminder from Joshua Becker that we live with limited resources in the areas of “Money. Time. Energy. Attention. Physical Space. Relationships. Mental Capacity. Body. Talents. Natural Resources.” Let’s spend these things with wisdom and love. From the blog:…

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Rooting Out Our Own Greed

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Joshua Becker is a Christian who focuses on a lifestyle of simplicity on his blog Becoming Minimalist. He wrote a book called Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life as well…

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The Cost of Holding On

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Given Greg’s recent Twitter comments on the question of how we view what we own, we thought this article in the New York Times was particularly timely. What is the cost of holding onto things?…

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