Christian Living on Sabbath

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Andrew Root
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Sabbath is a period of 'trying on' God's promised completion, trying on God's future. Sabbath is not rest for a privileged few while all others serve them – that's tourism. Sabbath...
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Eugene Peterson
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Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
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Abraham J. Heschel
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- God's Gifts
Sabbath is the most precious present humankind has received from the treasure house of God.
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Wayne Muller
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Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop—because our work is never completely done. . . . If we refuse rest until we are finished, we will...
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Andy Crouch
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There is so much more to sabbath than what we stop doing, but for the purposes of disciplining power, simply stopping matters a great deal.
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Tilden Edwards
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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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A. J. Swoboda
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- Pleasing God
The Sabbath teaches us that we do not work to please God. Rather, we rest because God is already pleased with the work, he has accomplished in us.
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Wayne Muller
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- Paths
Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
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To Remember & Observe: Sabbath in a Jewish Home
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A. J. Swoboda
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- Sabbath
- Remembering
We must begin by remembering. If you journey into a contemporary Jewish home prepared for Sabbath, you will likely encounter two candles lit by (more often than not) the woman of the home. On Friday e...
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John Koessler
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Exodus 8:11, Mark 2:27, Genesis 2:3, Matthew 5:12-15
Sunday observance of the Sabbath was the subject of forty-seven acts of Parliament and often debated by American legislators in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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When Rest is Radical: Why the Sabbath Matters for Christian Leaders
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Jason Jensen
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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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Thomas S. Monson
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- Thanksgiving (General)
This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon u...
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Sabbath-Keeping and Legalism
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Walter Brueggemann
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Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Mark 2:27-28, Matthew 12:8, Luke 6:5
For the most part, contemporary Christians pay little attention to the Sabbath. We more or less know that the day came to reflect, in U.S. culture, the most stringent disciplinary faith of the Puritan...
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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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The Sacred Day
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A. J. Swoboda
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The Sabbath day is a holy day. Interestingly, the only thing God deems as qadosh, or “holy,” in the creation story is the Sabbath day. The earth, space, land, stars, animals — even people — are not de...
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Eternal Father, we come to you at the
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W. E. Orchard
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Eternal Father, we come to you at the close of day (change as applicable) , when from long ago men and women have always turned aside to seek your face. Wearied by the conflict of life, worn by the b...
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The Crucial Bridge in the 10 Commandments
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Walter Brueggemann
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- Sabbath
- Ten Commandments
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Exodus 20:3-7, 12-17, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Mark 2:27-28, Matthew 12:8, Luke 6:5, Hebrews 4:9-10, Isaiah 58:13-14
Interpretation series editor Patrick Miller has shrewdly observed that the fourth commandment on Sabbath is the “crucial bridge” that connects the Ten Commandments together. The fourth commandment loo...
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Andy Crouch
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But on the seventh day God stops not only to bless but to “hallow” or set apart the sabbath. The holiness of God is revealed not just in what he does but how he rests.
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Prayer of Confession for Labor Day
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Lord of the Sabbath Prince of Peace Lead us away from our work for rest Our world is so fast So noisy So full Help us stop and rest with you Our world is so pressured Work, work, work Buy, buy, buy ...
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Going Against the Grain of the Universe
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John Mark Comer
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Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Mark 2:27-28
When we fight this work-six-days, Sabbath-one-day rhythm, we go against the grain of the universe. And to quote the philosopher H. H. Farmer, “If you go against the grain of the universe, you get spli...
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Never Leaving Their Work
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A. J. Swoboda
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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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God blessed them, and God said to them,
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:15, Exodus 20:9-10, Psalm 90:17
God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth' Lord be with those who work and worship The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to ti...
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Adapted from Isaiah 56
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Isaiah 56:null
Leader: Thus says the Lord: "Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon My salvation will come, and My deliverance will be revealed. People: "To those who keep My sabbath, who choose...
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Jackie Hill Perry
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Like trees, words have roots. Dig underneath the letters’ soil and you’ll discover its definition. The root word of “holy” means “to cut” or “to separate.” When applied to everything outside of God, w...
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Leaving the Letters up to God
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Ronald Rohlheiser
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Psalm 51:17, John 4:23-24, Proverbs 3:5-6, Luke 18:13-14, 1 Samuel 16:7
There is a story told about a Jewish farmer, who ended up stuck in his field for the Sabbath. As the sun went down, the farmer realized he would have to remain in the field until sunset the next day, ...
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Adapted from Nehemiah 9:6-15
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Dustin Ray
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Nehemiah 9:6-15
Pastor: You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; ...
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The Two Runners
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Matthew 6:33, Colossians 3:23, Psalm 39:6, Luke 12:15, Acts 15:29, Matthew 5:14-16, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:62, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 1:12, Romans 8:16-17, Galatians 2:20
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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Sacred Space: Lessons from Ethiopia’s Church Forests
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William Rowley
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Too Busy for God? American work culture is all-pervasive. For many members of your congregation, it can be a real fight to get actual time off—and cell phones and the internet has made it possible to...
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Gracious and Merciful God—Father, Son
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Richard Herman
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Romans 5:8-9, Romans 8:1-17, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, John 14:27, James 5:14-15, Philippians 4:6-7
Gracious and Merciful God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: When we wouldn’t love—You did. When we couldn’t do right—you could. When we wouldn’t give—You gave and gave all of yourself. So we come to You w...
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Finding the Right Pastoral Work–Life Balance: A Few Unbalanced Thoughts
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Dan Baumgartner
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John 15:null
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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