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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…

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

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…

Opening • Welcome • Happy New Year • Boudreaux Joke Message Opening • Pray • New Year - resolutions - usually a series about restarting • something to bring our resolutions into alignment with the Word • Uncertainties • disorder • social unrest • Inflation • Aliance closing • Praying and this phrase…

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who…

Tiredness takes on many forms. We can be tired physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. We seek relief in many forms. Addiction and all of the above forms are still true. We spend more money, try to make more money. There are three commands in these verses. We will look briefly…

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love…

1 “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord , “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; 2 who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the…

Here is real medicine for our souls. We are restless people living in a restless world. And here in God’s word we find the offer of rest. Our hearts yearn for real rest. But we experience life as a hurried, frantic rush from one thing to the next. Even times we want to be restful get crowded with stress.…

Second Wind 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” REST Today, we begin a biblical starter-series…

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…

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…

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

2021 has been a hard year, and it is weighing on everyone. So how do we finish the year strong, and continue to run our race well?

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…

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…

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…

This Sunday, we look at a few of the things we tend to forget when we are tired or stressed.

Introduction We took a pause on this series for the month of December so we could focus on Jesus coming in the flesh as a little baby. Interesting, because that is where we left off in the book of Hebrews. I know it has been a few weeks, so I want to give a breakdown of the book of Hebrews to this point.…

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

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…

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' 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…

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.

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…