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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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Unlikely time and place.

Acts 16:25–34 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized. The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household. Read the context From enemy to fellow believer — this Jailer was an unexpected convert to the faith at an unlikely time: the middle of the night. Often, it can feel like only the right people in the...

John 3:1–3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. Read the context He could teach in the daylight. People knew who he was, but Nicodemus had to ask his burning...

Join us for study — Tonight 📖 ✏️ 📅 November 12th @7P |📍Solare Cafe @Element Eatery Check out what we're studying! Genesis 28:10-13 When [Jacob] reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he...

Join us for study — Wednesday Night 📖 ✏️ 📅 November 12th @7P |📍Solare Cafe @Element Eatery Check out what we're studying! Luke 18:4–7 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who...

Join us for study next Wednesday 📖 ✏️ 📅 October 15th @7P |📍Solare Cafe @Element Eatery Check out what we're studying! 1 John 5:13–15 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. Read the context "Can you hear me?" The...

Join us for study next Wednesday 📖 ✏️ 📅 October 15th @7P |📍Solare Cafe @Element Eatery Check out what we're studying! Genesis 32:25–26 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” Read the context What made Jacob strong enough to wrestle God? It wasn't his muscles or savvy... It...

Join us for study next Wednesday 📖 ✏️ 📅 October 15th @7P |📍Solare Cafe @Element Eatery Check out what we're studying! Psalm 63:6–8 On my bed I remember you;I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help,I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you;your right hand upholds me. Read the context What do you think about before you fall asleep — tomorrow's tasks? Yesterday's stressors? Even in a peaceful room it's hard to have a peaceful mind. Whether waking or...

Psalm 63:2–5 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; — with singing lips my mouth will praise you. Read the context When was the last time you were fully satisfied? — After a solid meal? Finishing a long project? This life is not permanent, and what you think...

Acts 16:13–15 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the...

2 Kings 5:1–3 Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. Now bands of raiders from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife. She said to her mistress, “If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.” Read the context...