Episode 119 - Simple Faith: Simple Life

SHOW NOTES

How can we reclaim a faith that is simple— free from religious paraphernalia and church clutter? Is it even possible? In the complex times we are living in and in the new cadence of urgency and emergency, what can we do to reclaim our “first love?”

This is the subject of today’s Soul Care Conversation -we encourage you to join the conversation!

Mentioned in podcast

• Pew Research Report “Modeling the Future of Religion in America”
• Revelations 2:2-5 (MSG)
• Mysteries, Yes - poem by Mary Oliver
• 2 Corinthians 11:3 (MSG)
• Matt 6:31-33 (MSG)

Seven ways to implement simplicity

• 1. Live with Jesus in mind and heart
• 2. Read the Red letters of the Bible
• 3. Be quiet
• 4. Detachment- To uncomplicate and to untangle your life to experience inner freedom.
• 5. Do less
• 6. Practice Sabbath (Practice ceasing)
• 7. Declutter - Marie Kondo

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• Music Break at 16:00 Simple Gifts sung by Judy Collins for the February 1963 TV broadcast of Dinner with the President in Washington, D.C. Song and lyrics by Elder Joseph Brackett (1797–1882) of the Alfred, Maine Shaker community.
• Music Break at 25:40 Give me Jesus sung by Fernando Ortega.

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