1. Exhausted?

2. In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in “muchness” and “manyness,” he will rest satisfied. Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, “Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil.”
Richard Foster
Celebration of Discipline

4. following the natural rhythm of all creation

5. Genesis 2:2-3
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

6. Genesis - it’s good

7. The Ten Commandments

8. “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you. 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, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.”
Deuteronomy 5:12-14

9. Deuteronomy - it’s important

10. and Jesus?

11. “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
Mark 2:27

12. Mark - it’s gift

13. Sabbath and the Summer

14. ...the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 5:14a

15. The Challenge: Staying connected to God and each other.

16. 2 Major Connection Points

17. Member Preach Class - Returns!!!
First of 4 classes - Saturday June 9

18. Summer Reading Plan
The Gospel of Luke

19. Will you participate in the summer reading challenge?
Call to Faith
Will you participate in the summer reading challenge?