“And they returned and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” What is my relationship with the Sabbath day—or for the average Christian today? I grew up going to church and never really thought twice about the Sabbath. If it crossed my mind at all, it was either […]
God rested on the seventh day and called it holy long before Israel existed, long before Abraham or Moses. God rested after creating the stars, the sun, and man. Therefore is rest for all humanity? God established the Sabbath as holy, but then he seemed to give it specifically to Israel as a gift once […]
Our human inclination is to survive, and we build mindsets for this survival, we have expectations not only about how to survive, but have expectations for everything. We expect the strong to survive and the weak to fade, the old to wrinkle while the young rise. Birds take to the sky, fish glide through water, […]
I spent most of my life convinced that exercise simply wasn’t for me. As a kid, I hated gym class with a passion. I forgot my gym clothes constantly, was physically weak, uncoordinated, and exhausted almost immediately by anything involving running, jumping, or teamwork. I wasn’t athletic, didn’t play sports, avoided physical activity outside of […]
It’s a dramatic moment. Jesus is walking the road to Golgotha—the place where he will breathe his last breath. He has been passed between rulers, mocked, beaten, spit on, and mistreated. Yet beneath the physical suffering lies a deeper sorrow: rejection by his own people. Though this suffering was part of God’s redemptive plan, though […]
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