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The Everyday Sabbath

When the daily grind overwhelms, God promises to bring rest through his Word. This daily devotion & journal prompt is written to accompany your morning coffee or nighttime routine.

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He's still blessing you.

Luke 24:50–53 When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. Read the context You can't see him, but can you picture that moment? On top of a hill, perhaps a sunny day. Hands lifted... and then he's gone... ascended into heaven. But as he goes, he's still...

Acts 1:10–11 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Read the context It's not polite to stare. Kids get called out for gawking at something. So do these disciples. They're looking up toward where Jesus went thinking,...

Eph. 1:18–21 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the...

🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions Psalm 47:5–9 God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets. Sing praises to God, sing praises;sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth;sing to him a psalm of praise. God reigns over the nations;God is seated on his holy throne. The nobles of the nations...

🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions 1 Timothy 2:3–6 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time. Read the...

🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions Isaiah 45:5–7 I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, — though you have not acknowledged me,so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its settingpeople may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness,I...

🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions Acts 14:15–17 “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. In the past, he let all nations go their own way. Yet he has not left...

🎼 Special this weekend! 👇 Our Adult Choir sings as we celebrate the Ascension! Saturday @5P | Eastside Rec. Center Come worship with us and bring a friend. 👉 Get Directions John 14:15–17 If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Read the context I am...

1 Peter 3:21–22 This water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. Read the context "Don't drag that in the house. Hose down outside first." Some messes don't even make it in the front door. My moral mess is dirtier than a day of working outside....

Acts 17:22–23 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. Read the context Everyone worships something. They might not label it as worship... but what you dedicate time and...