Life on Planet Earth on Sabbath

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Walter Brueggemann
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- Sabbath
- Resistance
Sabbath is an act of resistance.
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Sabbath Begins in Rest
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Ashley Hales
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- Sabbath
- Rest
Sabbath begins in rest. The Jewish people practice Shabbat sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. It begins and ends in the dark, where rest (not hustle) is the first word.
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A. J. Swoboda
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- Time
- Sabbath
Sabbath reminds us that “our time” was never our time in the first place. All time is God’s time.
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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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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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Walter Brueggemann
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- Time
- Sabbath
People who keep sabbath live all seven days differently.
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Wayne Muller
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- Sabbath
- 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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The Sabbath Reveals Economic Disparities
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Kevin Blue
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The discussion of the sabbath leads to an interesting reflection. Some of our economies and cultures actually are put together in such a way that the poor either struggle to get enough work or have no...
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Parenting and the Sabbath
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MaryAnn McKibben Dana
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Our Sabbath project grew out of a desire to reclaim some of the unhurried wonder of those early days of parenthood—to see what would happen if, on one day out of seven, we stopped working, striving, a...
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The Sabbath for the Descendants of Slaves
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Cole Arthur Riley
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People think the sabbath is antiquated; I think it will save us for ourselves… When we rest, we do so in memory of rest denied. We receive what has been withheld from ourselves and our ancestors. And...
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A Space Sabbath
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A. J. Swoboda
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- Sabbath
- Space (Outer)
Colonel William Pogue requested a day of rest from mission control for his overworked and exhausted space crew: “We have been over-scheduled. We were just hustling the whole day. The work could be tir...
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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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Doing Rather Than Being
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A. J. Swoboda
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- Sabbath
- Burnout
Sabbath is that ancient idea and practice of intentional rest that has long been discarded by much of the church and our world. Sabbath is not new. Sabbath is just new to us. Historically, Christians ...
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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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Oliver Sacks
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- Rest
- Sabbath
I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in ...
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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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A Day of Peace
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George Robinson
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- Rest
- Sabbath
We are not beasts of burden. We should not live to work. We should not be chained to routine. Shabbat unchains us. Shabbat is meant to be a day of peace. It offers us a chance for peace with nature, ...
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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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Being Instructed on Sabbath Keeping
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John Buchanan
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- Sabbath
- Indispensability
My instructor in Sabbath-keeping was not a professor or spiritual director, but a foreman at the East Chicago Inland Steel plant named Mike Paddock. His wife was the treasurer of the tiny congregation...
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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 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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A Coca-Cola Philosophy & Empty Calories
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A. J. Swoboda
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Studies reveal that 37 percent of Americans take fewer than seven days of vacation a year. In fact, only 14 percent take vacations that last longer than two weeks. Americans take the shortest paid vac...
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The Wisdom of Dormancy
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Wayne Muller
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Genesis 2:2-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Leviticus 25:4-5, Mark 2:27, Isaiah 40:30-31
Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy. If certain plant species, for example, do not lie dormant for winter, they will not bear fruit in the spring. If this continues for more than a season,...
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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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Liddell’s Sabbath Exception
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Randy Alcorn
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Randy Alcorn relates meeting Margaret Holder, born to missionary parents in China and interned by the Japanese with Eric Liddell, the “Flying Scotsman,” whose story is featured in Chariots of Fire . ...
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Andy Crouch
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There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus’ lordship in our frantic, power - hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work.
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Sabbath-living Slows Down and Expands Time
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Tiffany Shlain
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Mark 6:31, Isaiah 30:15
Living 24/6 feels like magic and here’s why: it seems to defy the laws of physics, as it both slows down time and gives us more of it. I laugh a lot more on that day without screens. I notice everythi...
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Gracious God, for many of us, the
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Mark D. Roberts
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Genesis 2:null
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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