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Spiritual Disciplines Index: Simplicity

The Spiritual Disciplines Index is a selective, topical index designed to help readers get a picture of the with-God life presented in the Bible. Here are passages related to simplicity and frugality.

Renovaré Team

January 11, 2025

01 11 Blessed To Give

The Grace of Giving

Looking at one of the most practical ways to experience the “blessing of blessing,” Richard Foster prescribes a “lavish and joyful giving” as the antidote to low spiritual vitality, dusty words, and hollow, empty prayers.

Richard J. Foster

January 11, 2025

01 12 Shiny Happy People

Real Community

Community is at the heart of the Renovaré Institute experience. This excerpt from James Bryan Smith’s The Good and Beautiful God captures the flavors of this sort of community—born in faith and fellowship and nurtured by the Holy Spirit.

James Bryan Smith

January 11, 2025

01 16 Traveling Light

Freedom From Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

Richard Foster helps us travel light by laying down the weight of our own religious solemnity.

Richard J. Foster

January 11, 2025

01 25 Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Lock Up Ye Olde Curiosity Shop!

If your all-nighters of roister-doistery have led only to mornings of huggermuggery, then Thomas à Kempis prescribes a dose of silence and solitude. Join us today to find out how temptation and sorrow can help draw us nearer to God and how sickness and sadness give way to peace and quiet.

Thomas à Kempis

January 11, 2025

03 01 Hildegard Of Bingen

A Call to Reflection and Repentance

Whether starting out the Lenten season or any time of the year, spend some time with Hildegard of Bingen. This medieval abbess has some stern words for our wayward hearts, but her ending is pure charity. Come and explore her timeless call to holiness and repentance.

Hildegard of Bingen

January 11, 2025

Kindness Isn’t Quaint

Kindness often gets thrown in with niceness, manners and etiquette. But it’s altogether something different. Those things are of earth. Kindness is of heaven.

Brian Morykon

January 11, 2025

03 08 Day By Day

Live Day by Day

God will give us everything we need. A truth so easy to state and sometimes so hard to live. Brian Morykon shares some advice and insight from François Fénelon on “completely surrendering to God.”

François Fénelon

January 11, 2025

03 20 Orphan House

Only By Prayer and Faith

In thinking of how to ask for our daily bread, may we be inspired anew by George Müller and his orphanage in Bristol, England. Never asking a single person for help, George Müller put his trust and utter dependence upon the Holy Spirit’s wonderful way of working on hearts. Here, he shares his story.

George Müller

January 11, 2025

He Is Our Light

As we continue our look at the nature of discipleship, D.L. Moody calls our attention to Christ’s presence as the light in our lives—we can only escape the darkness by following Jesus closely. When we abide in the light, his light shines over, within, and through us. D.L. offers encouragement.

D.L. Moody

January 11, 2025