Spiritual Simplicity
Spiritual Simplicity

Author: Chip Ingram

Publisher: Howard Books

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1982148527

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Discover the answer to our culture’s need for simplicity and peace—by doing less and loving more. If you crave simplicity, yearn for peace and calm, this is the book for you. Author Chip Ingram goes beyond quick fixes and speaks to all of us who find it impossible to break free of our busy lifestyles, filled with too many good and important things that fill our schedules. The message of this book is simple: Spiritual simplicity will not be achieved by strategic attempts to control our lives and schedules but through doing less because we are able to love more. As you learn the practice of loving people, you will experience a shift from complex to simple, from hurried to peaceful, from “never enough time” to “time enough for those you love.” It’s time to redirect our focus from the complex, overextended lifestyle that keeps us running but never arriving. In Spiritual Simplicity, learn how to “reorient your life around life. The result is a life whose priorities are so radically rearranged that” (Dave Stone, author of the Faithful Families series) lasting change is finally within your reach.

Celebration of Discipline
Celebration of Discipline

Author: Richard J. Foster

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1988-10-05

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0060628391

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In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study, offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration, bring us nearer to one another and to God. Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities-and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.

Spiritual Simplicity
Spiritual Simplicity

Author: David Yount

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0684846233

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The frantic pace of contemporary life leaves our bodies exhausted, our minds stressed, and our spirits depleted. In a book that is at once profound and pragmatic, the acclaimed author of GROWING IN FAITH explains how to clear away the physical and mental debris that clutters our lives and concentrate on nourishing our capacities for giving and receiving love. Creating a simple life requires nothing more than motivation and a straightforward plan and Yount provides them both. Yount shows us that there is a better way that is simpler, relaxed and vastly more rewarding physically, emotionally and spiritually. Men and women who simplify their lives discover that their senses sharpen, that their health improves, and that they become more loving, compassionate, and more at peace with themselves. These inspiring stories will inspire readers to begin their own journeys. To help them get started, SPIRITUAL SIMPLICITY includes easy 'how-to' exercises that lead the way to living not just from the head but from the heart and the soul.

Everyday Simplicity
Everyday Simplicity

Author: Robert J. Wicks

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781893732124

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Everybody talks spirituality. Here's how you can do something real and practical about achieving it.

Abundant Simplicity
Abundant Simplicity

Author: Jan Johnson

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0830868631

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Which activities give you energy and connect you with God? Do you know what behaviors are life-draining for you, separating you from God? In this book Jan Johnson provides small experiments with simplicity as well as questions for discussion or reflection to help you discover the unhurried rhythms of grace.

Silence, Simplicity & Solitude
Silence, Simplicity & Solitude

Author: Rabbi David A. Cooper

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2013-04-18

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1594735298

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From the best-selling author of God Is a Verb, the classic spiritual retreat guide that enables anyone to create their own self-guided spiritual retreat at home. The ancient mystics looked to spiritual retreat as a way of cleansing the body and healing the soul. In Silence, Simplicity & Solitude, David A. Cooper traces the path of the mystics and the practice of spiritual retreat in all the major faith traditions, sharing the common techniques and practices of the retreat experience for beginner and advanced meditators alike. Cooper shows the way to the self-discovery and discipline of the spiritual retreat experience and clearly instructs how to create an effective, self-guided spiritual retreat in your own home. Silence, Simplicity & Solitude teaches that not only is silence a great healer, but that inner spiritual retreat can provide life-changing insight into deeper spiritual truths

Women & Identity
Women & Identity

Author: Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0830831088

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We live only a small fraction of the lives God has for us, circling around the demands of the present moment while God whispers softly or even hollers for us to harness our whole hearts. These nine sessions LifeGuide® Bible Study follow the biblical themes as well as the journeys of women showing the way to embracing God's strength and wisdom to live whole lives.

Simplicity
Simplicity

Author: Mindy Caliguire

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0830867295

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Our closets, our garages, our cupboards, our lives are--let's face it--cluttered. Stuff is everywhere: old yearbooks, projects we started years ago but never finished, commitments to activities that we now regret making but don't feel we can pull out of. Are you longing for space--for simplicity? Here is a book to bring you there. Soul Care® Resources are designed to be simple, but not simplistic, guides to maintaining or recovering the life and health of your soul, that essential personhood created by God as you. In four sections Mindy Caliguire helps you discover and embrace who you are, set healthy boundaries and embrace simplicity as a lifestyle that brings freedom. You use this book in small chunks of daily reading, covering the whole book in the course of four weeks. Also included are four guided group discussions for use with a small group or a spiritual friend. Are you ready to start your journey toward simplicity?

Freedom of Simplicity
Freedom of Simplicity

Author: Richard J. Foster

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2005-08-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0060759712

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A revised and updated edition of the manifesto that shows how simplicity is not merely having less stress and more leisure but an essential spiritual discipline for the health of our soul.

Christian Minimalism
Christian Minimalism

Author: Becca Ehrlich

Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2021-05-17

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1640653899

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"Ehrlich’s insightful self-help guide will resonate with Christians wishing to streamline an overstuffed life."—Publishers Weekly Logically, we all know our purpose in life is not wrapped up in accumulating possessions, wealth, power, and prestige—Jesus is very clear about that—but society tells us otherwise. Christian Minimalism attempts to cut through our assumptions and society’s lies about what life should look like and invites readers into a life that Jesus calls us to live: one lived intentionally, free of physical, spiritual, and emotional clutter. Written by a woman who simplified her own life and practices these principles daily, this book gives readers a fresh perspective on how to live out God’s grace for us in new and exciting ways and live out our faith in a way that is deeply satisfying.