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Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath Maybe your bible has some headers in it, if it does it may say that “Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath. A few reminders The Sabbath was a day, and was a holy day ( Exo20:8 ) It was a day of rest, a sanctified day ( Exo16:30 ; Gen2:2-3 ) Sunday is not the Sabbath it is the Lord’s…

When we left Jesus last week He was correcting the Pharisees…telling them that you do not fast when the bridegroom is present you rejoice! And a parable about new cloth on old clothes and new wine in old wine skins. Both of these parables are making the same point. He is not an add on to the religion…

The journey through Open Door 2024 has brought us to a pivotal moment, a test not of our strength or endurance, but of our ability to embrace rest. In a world that prizes constant motion and productivity, God invites us into a counter-cultural practice – the sacred rest

The Dad’s unfinished task It might be a stereotype, but I suspect that there are a lot of dad’s out there who have a lot of handyman jobs around the house, many of which have been started, although some haven’t even got that far, that just sit there unfinished. You know, I’m just a bit busy this week……

4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works” ; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because…

Introduction: This morning, we are going to look at a celebration that should happen every single week. I’m not sure what your favorite holiday is. Maybe it’s Christmas, or Thanksgiving, or your birthday! Imagine getting to celebrate your favorite holiday every single week. That is essentially what we…

Intro: I was a wired and strung-out kid. I did not know how to rest. It ended up being part of both epilepsy and ADHD. I could not sleep. Still a struggle at times. God, knowing the tendency of the human heart is self-reliance and not taking pause. God put into place a design to put the brakes on our…

Sabbath, God's gift to us, is a time set apart to rest from work, worship God, tend to our soul, and bless others.

Today, we’re taking a pause between two different sermon series. We completed a series last week and next week we will be beginning a new series, so it’s time to take a pause. Do you take time to rest? When you go on vacation do you plan extended times to rest or do you plan every moment so that when…

Mark 14:32-41 INTRODUCTION: As we join Jesus and His men once again, they are in the midst of an eventful night. They have just finished the Instituting of the Lord’s Supper, vv. 12-26 . They left the room and made their way from Jerusalem down through the Kidron Valley to A Place Called Gethsemane .…

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Introduction Today, we are thinking about the Sabbath. This is the third and final Sabbath healing controversy…

Our door to door evangelism yesterday Josh Buddhist couple Tyler Brandon Halie kim Caroline Gary Kadence Day & Dillion Naja Shannon Lindas family Julie and Ray Kylie VBS We are looking at possibly doing a VBS at the end of July I have spoken with Salem and they may join in with us so we can do it together…

Limit #2: Your Body Attention Getter: Manic Monday by The Bangles 1986 Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there…

Priorities. Priorities are what makes the world work. We all have our priorities. Yours are different than mine. Mine are different than yours. Sometimes things come along that force us to rearrange our priorities. That happened to me this week, when I went in for a tooth evaluation and ended up with…

Jesus came to do “new” things. He was bringing new life, new love, new grace. Jesus does “new” things. The Gospel of Mark exists to help us be faithful. We must remember why it was written. Early Christians needed the encouragement on who Jesus is so they could keep moving and living out the Kingdom…

Remember the Sabbath . . . You have read it, have heard it, 8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Sabbath the seventh day, it was a sanctified day. A day set apart for God a part of the Law of Moses given to the people of Israel, the Jews. ( Exo20:8 ) You have read you have heard even before…

What to do about the Sabbath As promised last week, this week we will be looking at the fourth commandment, and this one, perhaps more than any of the others, is a source of misunderstanding or contention, because the Church generally does not practice the keeping of the commandment the same way a Jew…

The Daily Grind Each day you wake up. You go through your morning routine. And then you get stuck into the jobs you have for the day. If you’re lucky, they might be pleasant enough tasks. Maybe it’s a paid job. Maybe you’re in retirement but you still have all those jobs in front of you. Regardless of…

Rest Peace What is it? How can we get it? physical comfort? psychological counseling? Religious activity? Is rest eternal salvation? Is rest when we get in the future when we are with the Lord? Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “ Today if you hear His voice , Do not harden your hearts as when…

The fourth commandment is about more than just a day for church; it is about a pattern of sabbath rest which sets our hearts upon God in all our days.

The rest God has for you. · As a young boy I played various sports—baseball, basketball….I was proof that a child could not be any good and still play…or at least, practice. I remember running laps, doing drills. I remember very clearly, when doing those laps and drills, that we had to continue and could…

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is…

Is God like us? It is part of the world infected with sin that mankind makes God in our image. Most people’s conception of God is that He is like us only a little stronger and a little smarter than we are. The passage before us today could seem to suggest that God is indeed like us, after all here we…

Biblical rest is modeled and granted as an act of God's completion, not the remedy for exhaustion.

Jesus' Perfect Work of Salvation for Us Enables us to Honor Him and the Day Set Apart for Him. During our Wednesday evening gatherings our attention is directed to the Ten Commandments, where Luther famously explains each command with, “We should fear and love God so that...” It is only the First Commandment…