Category: Rest
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Family Stress and God’s Faithfulness
Matthew 6:25-34 This morning we continue our sermon series on Rest, looking at pressures and stress within our most intimate relationships—our families. And how God invites us to peace and flourishing personally and communally. We’ll begin by reading Matthew 6. [READ Mt 6:25-34] Introduction I want to start this message this morning talking to you…
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The Scary-Good Gift of Sabbath
Mark 2:23-28 When I was still a teenager, I bought my first car. It was a year older than I was and it was a red Audi roadster with an manual transmission. I fell in love. I ran out of a gas, got in a fender bender, and got my first (and only!) speeding ticket…
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Rest: Finding Our Way Home
Genesis 1:27—2:1 One of the best-loved Parables in the entire Bible is the story of the prodigal son. An upstart younger son asks for his inheritance before he fully becomes a man, and before his father dies! It’s as if he says, “Dad, I wish you were dead!” But his loving father still gives him…
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A Personal Quest for Rest
1 Timothy 1:12-20 This morning we are continuing our sermon series on Rest! Over the last few weeks, Pastor Harrison looked at what it means for us to enter into God’s rest and how to find peace (shalom) in our relatonships with others. Today we continue, wondering about inner peace—a personal quest for rest. [READ…
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Peace in Relationships
Colossians 3:1-15 We are continuing in the sermon series on ‘Rest’. Last Sunday, we had time to think together about ‘Entering into God’s Rest’. The Lord has already opened the door of salvation and is inviting us into His sabbath rest in all different areas of our lives. Among them, relationships are one of the…
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Entering Into His Rest
Hebrews 4:9-11 ❖ Introduction We are in a new sermon series about Rest, and last Sunday, pastor Adrian talked about these three questions: ‘What is rest?’, ‘Why don’t we rest?’, and ‘Why is rest important?’ This morning, I am going to talk about the following two questions: ‘then, how can we enter that rest?’ and…
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Intro to Rest: Connection, Shalom, and Sabbath
John 14:22-27 In this series, we are looking at Rest: What rest is, why rest is important, and how we rest in different areas or dimensions of our lives. Specifically this morning, we’re looking at rest as Connection, Shalom, and Sabbath. [READ John 14:22-27] What is Rest? At it’s simplest, rest is about these three…
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SERIES: Rest for the Rest of Us
Our world promises a “good life” to people with lots of money and lots of time; but we seem always to have less than enough of both. So, what about us? For Christians, the Bible pictures true as lasting rest as connection with God, connection with others, and connection with ourselves–our true selves created good…
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