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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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Karel Čapek
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We say that Nature rests, yet she is working like mad. She has only shut up shop and pulled the shutters down; but behind them she is unpacking new goods, and the shelves are becoming so full that the...
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Scripture Guide, Luke 13:10-17
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Paul Koptak
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Luke 13:10-17
Introduction Jesus is the deliverer of Israel (1:54–55, 69–75, 77–79) Jesus states his mission in Luke 4:16-19: to proclaim good news to the poor, liberty to captives and the oppressed. The word ...
liturgy

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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11th Sunday after Pentecost
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Paul Koptak
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Luke 13:10-17
Introduction Jesus is the deliverer of Israel (1:54–55, 69–75, 77–79) Jesus states his mission in Luke 4:16-19: to proclaim good news to the poor, liberty to captives and the oppressed. The word J...
liturgy

You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of
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Symeon the New Theologian
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Colossians 1:13-14, Revelation 21:1-4, John 2:1-11, Revelation 19:9, John 4:14, Matthew 5:5, John 6:35
You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven; You, the land promised to the gentle; You the grazing lands of paradise; You, the hall of the celestial banquet; You, the ineffable marriage chamber; You the...
scripture guide

Scripture Guide, Mark 2:23-3:6
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Gabe Fung
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Mark 2:23-28, Mark 3:1-6, Acts 12:12, Acts 12:25, Acts 15:37-39, Colossians 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:11, Philemon 1:24, 1 Peter 5:13, Mark 1:14-15, Mark 2:1-22, Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Exodus 34:21, 1 Samuel 21:1-6, Luke 11:37-54, Mark 2:1-17, Genesis 1:26-31, Genesis 2:1-2, Genesis 3:null, John 19:30
Context Authorship of Mark Mark’s account of the story of Jesus is commonly held to be the earliest of the four canonical Gospels. Early church tradition identifies the author as Mark (or John Mark)...
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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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Second Sunday after Pentecost
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Gabe Fung
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Mark 2:23-28, 3:1-6, Mark 2:23-28, Mark 3:1-6, Acts 12:12, Acts 12:25, Acts 15:37-39, Colossians 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:11, Philemon 1:24, 1 Peter 5:13, Mark 1:14-15, Mark 2:1-22, Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Exodus 34:21, 1 Samuel 21:1-6, Luke 11:37-54, Mark 2:1-17, Genesis 1:26-31, Genesis 2:1-2, Genesis 3:null, John 19:30
Preaching Commentary Context Authorship of Mark Mark’s account of the story of Jesus is commonly held to be the earliest of the four canonical Gospels. Early church tradition identifies the author...
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Shelly Miller
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- Sabbath
- Waiting on God
As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result.
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Donna Schaper
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- Sabbath
Sabbath keeping is a spiritual strategy: it is a kind of judo. The world's commands are heavy; we respond with light moves. The world says work; we play. The world says go fast; we go slow. These ...
liturgy

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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Sabbath
- Spring (Season)
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in each year.
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Abraham Lincoln
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- Sabbath
As we keep or break the Sabbath day, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
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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...
liturgy

Let us go before our God, confessing the ways we have dismissed
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois
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Psalm 46:10, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 51:10, Philippians 4:19, Psalm 42:1
Leader : Let us go before our God, confessing the ways we have dismissed His plan for internal peace from our lives. Leader : Heavenly Father, we crave rest and seek it everywhere but with You...
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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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Author

Eugene Peterson
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- Sabbath
- Spiritual Formation
Sabbath is not primarily about us or how it benefits us; it is about God, and how God forms us. It is not, in the first place, about what we do or don’t do; it is about God – completing and resting an...
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Marva J. Dawn
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- Sabbath
Sabbath is about four things: ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting.
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Sabbath for Pastors: Why Is It So Hard to Rest?
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Dan Baumgartner
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If you are a pastor…this one’s for you. Sabbath. So many things have been written. Most of us have taught our people or preached about Sabbath, and underscored how busy people in our churches re...
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Blowing Through Stop Signs: Why Keeping the Sabbath Is So Important
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Dan Baumgartner
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Exodus 20:null, Deuteronomy 5:null
Ignoring God's Stop Sign Have you ever been driving and inadvertently blown right through a stop sign? It happened to me recently. Anne and I were down in San Francisco meeting some friends, I w...
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Jesus My Glory
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Clement of Rome
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John 3:6-17 , Ephesians 2:8-10, Acts 16:31-34, 1 John 1:7, Philippians 2:5-8 , Matthew 5:14-16, Romans 12:1-2
O Lord God, You have commanded us to believe in Jesus; and I would flee to no other refuge, wash in no other fountain, build on no other foundation, receive from no other fullness, res...
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Abraham J. Heschel
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- Sabbath
- Time
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Author

Donna Schaper
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- Sabbath
Keeping sabbath may involve us in relinquishing certain kinds of power on behalf of other kinds. If we allow it, sabbath may bring us to true authority, true power. The road is that of letting go, rat...
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Author

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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Leaving the Letters up to God
Author

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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Aesop’s Fables
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- Rest
- Sabbath
If you keep a bow always bent, it will break presently; but if you let it go slack, it will be the fitter for use when you want it.
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Your Healing Hands
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Mark 4:35-41, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 5:25-34, Romans 1:16, Acts 3:19, John 11:25
Jesus, Resurrected One Light of New Life Breaker of Chains Bringer of Grace and Hope You are moving, speaking, inviting We hear your call to repentance The turning will save us We hear your Good Ne...
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The Lesson of Genesis
Author

John Koessler
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Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Psalm 46:10, Mark 2:27-28, Hebrews 4:1-11, Isaiah 30:15
The lesson of Genesis is that the first work of rest is to cease from our own effort. All that needs to be done has already been done. The work of God was finished long before we ever came on the scen...
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Author

Mark Buchanan
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- Sabbath
Sabbath [is about trust]. Sabbath is turning over to God all those things—our money, our work, our status, our reputations, our plans, our projects—that we’re otherwise tempted to hold tight in our ow...