You’re breaking a law right now and you don’t even know it. The Old Testament is full of regulations we don’t adhere to anymore.
For instance…
According to the Old Testament you can’t wear clothes made of mixed fibers: no cotton and wool blends. I’m not supposed to shave. And we’re told we can cook a baby… 
Posts Tagged ‘simplicity’
Pass The Biscuits
A Much Greater Hunger
A small wooden desk sat in one corner. A wooden bench without cushion for a chair.
A tiny bed, the size of a child’s, remains in an adjacent corner. Between them, one window.
There’s very little on the plaster walls – always was I bet: a picture of a pope, a letter in a frame, a…
I Can Totally Do This
How much water does one inch of rainfall on 1,000 square feet of roof make? About 6,000 gallons.
How much water does it take to feed our garden? No clue. But I bet it’s not 6,000 gallons. I’m hoping it’s more like 110.
I have a weird hobby. I admit this. I like to find things I…
Sell Everything Christian
A third of Americans now label themselves “born again Christian.” The term comes from a story in the bible in which Jesus tells a religious leader named Nicodemus that he must be “born again” in order to see the kingdom of God.
American Christians in the sixties – some say as early as the fifties…
Radical Enough?
I met with a film maker from Los Angeles yesterday who’s interested in making a documentary about my family’s transition from bloat to a somewhat simpler life, the connection between simplicity and generosity and Jesus and the rub that even the smallest lifestyle and theological changes causes sometimes with culture at large and family and…
Going Giftless Part 4
Alrighty, this won’t be short. Let’s recap first.
1. If you need to use the bible to justify gift giving at Christmas time, you’re out of luck: No where are we told to do this. Instead of telling us to give stuff to people to honor Christ’s arrival, it implies that we’re to give ourselves to…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
