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To experience the richness of life in God's kingdom, we must reorder our lives. We need to see through the shallow promises of our culture, and we need rhythms, signposts, and practices that reori... -
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The Importance of Building Margin Into your Life
[D]o you have margin in your life, like the white spaces between these words and the edges of the page? Having margin is about intentionally scheduling white space in your calendar to pray, rest, read... -
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Never Leaving Their Work
Because of the modern rhythms of work that are mediated through personal computers and phones, people, in the words of one cultural commentator, “leave the office, but they do not leave their work. Th... -
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Our love of rhythm and meter, in fact, is directly “related to the beat of our hearts, the pulse of our blood, the intake and outflow of air from our lungs. -
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An understanding and living of Sabbath time can help support a sane and holy rhythm of life for us. With it, we are given an alternative to the culture’s growing movement between driven achievement an... -
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Our bodies move to a rhythm of work and rest that follows the rhythm originally strummed by God on the waters of creation. As God worked, so shall we; as God rested, so shall we. Working and resting, ... -
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If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our—our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create for us. -
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. -
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I cannot transform myself, or anyone else for that matter. What I can do is create the conditions in which spiritual transformation can take place, by developing and maintaining a rhythm of spiritual ... -
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Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. -
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Our Bodies Need Silence
Your body knows about schedules. It gets used to those times of day when it says, Feed me right now. I’m hungry, and those times of night when it says, Get me to bed. I’m exhausted. Your body will spe... -
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A Workable Structure for Life
Worship gives us a workable structure for life. The psalm says, “Jerusalem, well-built city, built as a place for worship! The city to which the tribes ascend, all God’s tribes go up to worship.” Jeru... -
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In the story of grace, the lack of hurry makes room for presence. -
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Gracious God, for many of us, the notion of Sabbath-keeping is foreign. It suggests old-fashioned traditionalism or constrictive legalism. Yet, your example in Genesis 2, not to mention other portions... -
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The Two Runners
The true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two British sprinters who qualified for the 1924 Olympic Games, illustrates two contrasting approaches to life and identity. Abrahams was driven by ... -
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When Rest is Radical: Why the Sabbath Matters for Christian Leaders
What Eric Liddell Did Not Do Scottish athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, whose story is told in the movie Chariots of Fire , was a favorite to win the hundred-meter sprint in the 1924 Paris Olym... -
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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that... -
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The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is not an act of will. It is not a series of activities designed to attain a spiritual mental sta... -
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A Smallness We Find Comforting
South of where I live by just over an hour is Henry Cowell State Park. The park features redwood trees that are upward of 1,600 years old. For some perspective, only seven nations on earth are older t... -
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Culture is Like Gravity
Culture is like gravity. We never talk about it, except in physics classes. We don’t include gravity in our weekly planning processes. No one gets up thinking about how gravity will affect their day. ... -
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How Jesus Prayed
Many of us may have wondered what types of prayers Jesus would have prayed during his time on planet earth. In his book Praying with the Church , Scot McKnight notes that Jesus and his disciples,... -
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5 Quotes on Summer
Looking for inspiration for your summertime sermons? Here are five quotes that highlight different themes about summer. Quote 1 Comment: I love The Office , but in this short quotation... -
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On retreat we stop avoiding the pain of the disconnect between our deepest desires and the way we are actually living. We have time and space to reflect on our life rhythms to see if they are really w... -
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Finding the Right Pastoral Work–Life Balance: A Few Unbalanced Thoughts
I might not be the best person to be writing this. After an eleven-year career in business in my twenties and early thirties, I’ve been an ordained pastor now for nearly twenty-seven years. There are... -
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Why Preach the Lectionary?
Introduction This message is primarily directed to my friends for whom the word “lectionary” sounds like a disease. I, too, once shared your visceral shudder when someone uttered the phrase “lectiona... -
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Breathe Your Way into the New Year
Like me, maybe you set aside much of your normal work for the Christmas break and this week you have a lot to do! There’s a gravitational pull to “Hurry and catch up!” But that’s not the best way. ... -
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The Dicey Side of Christmas
Christmas (a shortened form of "Christ’s mass”) has been an embattled holiday for much of its history— and not just because talking heads on TV like to argue about the “war on Christmas” every ye... -
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The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal pa... -
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The Meaning of Rituals
Rituals are procedures or routines that are fused with meaning. Ritual actions include various rites of passage (birth, marriage, death) or calendrical rites (religious holy days, national holidays), ... -
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The past beats inside me like a second heart.
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- Taking A Leap Of Faith (10)
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- Truth (95)
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- The Way (10)
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
- Exod 1 (4)
- Exod 2 (4)
- Exod 3 (28)
- Exod 4 (3)
- Exod 5 (1)
- Exod 6 (2)
- Exod 8 (1)
- Exod 12 (4)
- Exod 13 (7)
- Exod 14 (7)
- Exod 15 (4)
- Exod 16 (12)
- Exod 17 (2)
- Exod 18 (2)
- Exod 19 (7)
- Exod 20 (17)
- Exod 22 (1)
- Exod 23 (2)
- Exod 24 (2)
- Exod 25 (2)
- Exod 26 (1)
- Exod 27 (1)
- Exod 30 (2)
- Exod 32 (13)
- Exod 33 (12)
- Exod 34 (6)
- Exod 35 (2)
- Exod 40 (1)
Leviticus
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Esther
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (26)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 3 (1)
- Ps 4 (6)
- Ps 5 (11)
- Ps 6 (5)
- Ps 7 (2)
- Ps 8 (22)
- Ps 9 (10)
- Ps 10 (3)
- Ps 11 (1)
- Ps 12 (2)
- Ps 13 (3)
- Ps 14 (3)
- Ps 15 (2)
- Ps 16 (17)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (13)
- Ps 19 (33)
- Ps 20 (4)
- Ps 22 (21)
- Ps 23 (73)
- Ps 24 (24)
- Ps 25 (26)
- Ps 27 (56)
- Ps 28 (3)
- Ps 29 (6)
- Ps 30 (18)
- Ps 31 (5)
- Ps 32 (35)
- Ps 33 (16)
- Ps 34 (103)
- Ps 35 (1)
- Ps 36 (8)
- Ps 37 (38)
- Ps 38 (2)
- Ps 39 (4)
- Ps 40 (8)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (31)
- Ps 43 (1)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 45 (2)
- Ps 46 (53)
- Ps 47 (3)
- Ps 50 (4)
- Ps 51 (109)
- Ps 52 (2)
- Ps 54 (2)
- Ps 55 (8)
- Ps 56 (8)
- Ps 57 (5)
- Ps 59 (1)
- Ps 60 (1)
- Ps 61 (3)
- Ps 62 (13)
- Ps 63 (10)
- Ps 65 (9)
- Ps 66 (7)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 68 (4)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 70 (1)
- Ps 71 (7)
- Ps 72 (5)
- Ps 73 (9)
- Ps 77 (8)
- Ps 78 (6)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (2)
- Ps 82 (12)
- Ps 84 (6)
- Ps 85 (13)
- Ps 86 (13)
- Ps 88 (4)
- Ps 89 (3)
- Ps 90 (17)
- Ps 91 (10)
- Ps 92 (3)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (11)
- Ps 96 (11)
- Ps 98 (6)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (20)
- Ps 102 (1)
- Ps 103 (70)
- Ps 104 (14)
- Ps 105 (2)
- Ps 106 (3)
- Ps 107 (5)
- Ps 111 (5)
- Ps 112 (3)
- Ps 113 (3)
- Ps 115 (4)
- Ps 116 (6)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (12)
- Ps 119 (75)
- Ps 121 (22)
- Ps 122 (2)
- Ps 124 (2)
- Ps 125 (1)
- Ps 126 (7)
- Ps 127 (8)
- Ps 128 (3)
- Ps 130 (16)
- Ps 131 (3)
- Ps 133 (13)
- Ps 135 (3)
- Ps 136 (14)
- Ps 137 (2)
- Ps 138 (6)
- Ps 139 (63)
- Ps 142 (3)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (1)
- Ps 145 (19)
- Ps 146 (13)
- Ps 147 (43)
- Ps 148 (2)
- Ps 149 (1)
- Ps 150 (5)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (6)
- Prov 3 (112)
- Prov 4 (15)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (7)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (2)
- Prov 10 (5)
- Prov 11 (23)
- Prov 12 (10)
- Prov 13 (7)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (19)
- Prov 16 (34)
- Prov 17 (18)
- Prov 18 (15)
- Prov 19 (23)
- Prov 20 (6)
- Prov 21 (10)
- Prov 22 (23)
- Prov 23 (3)
- Prov 24 (8)
- Prov 25 (5)
- Prov 26 (6)
- Prov 27 (11)
- Prov 28 (20)
- Prov 29 (9)
- Prov 30 (3)
- Prov 31 (16)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (60)
- Isa 2 (12)
- Isa 4 (1)
- Isa 5 (5)
- Isa 6 (44)
- Isa 7 (7)
- Isa 9 (41)
- Isa 11 (10)
- Isa 12 (3)
- Isa 14 (1)
- Isa 15 (1)
- Isa 16 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (22)
- Isa 28 (3)
- Isa 29 (7)
- Isa 30 (32)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (3)
- Isa 35 (6)
- Isa 40 (117)
- Isa 41 (64)
- Isa 42 (16)
- Isa 43 (56)
- Isa 44 (4)
- Isa 45 (8)
- Isa 46 (2)
- Isa 48 (6)
- Isa 49 (12)
- Isa 50 (3)
- Isa 51 (3)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (76)
- Isa 54 (5)
- Isa 55 (85)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (17)
- Isa 58 (38)
- Isa 59 (2)
- Isa 60 (22)
- Isa 61 (49)
- Isa 62 (3)
- Isa 64 (20)
- Isa 65 (9)
- Isa 66 (16)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Matthew
- Matt 1 (20)
- Matt 2 (27)
- Matt 3 (19)
- Matt 4 (60)
- Matt 5 (212)
- Matt 6 (149)
- Matt 7 (60)
- Matt 8 (18)
- Matt 9 (35)
- Matt 10 (28)
- Matt 11 (92)
- Matt 12 (18)
- Matt 13 (52)
- Matt 14 (25)
- Matt 15 (10)
- Matt 16 (42)
- Matt 17 (23)
- Matt 18 (59)
- Matt 19 (33)
- Matt 20 (23)
- Matt 21 (24)
- Matt 22 (43)
- Matt 23 (46)
- Matt 24 (15)
- Matt 25 (81)
- Matt 26 (23)
- Matt 27 (8)
- Matt 28 (67)