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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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.
I will sing for the one I love — a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard — on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. … Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit. — Isaiah 5:1–7 What will God find? You’ve worked hard all summer in your garden. You pulled the weeds, fertilized, even fought off the squirrels. When harvest comes, what should you expect? …Way too many tomatoes, zucchini, and...
“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ — Matthew 20:13–15 How is This Fair? “That’s not fair.” Who do you expect to say something like this? A kindergartener? A frustrated teenager? How about grown adults? You might sound fancier now,...
Here's what's new at Beautiful Savior Oakley... “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. — Matthew 18:15-20 An awkward...