If God created humanity in the image of God for the purpose of covenant relationship, and that covenant relationship has been marked by Sabbath rest from the dawn of time, and if that covenant ...

Wrestling with Rest. I was convinced that the particular way I kept Sabbath was required to earn God’s favor. But in my late 20s, God began to show me that his love, care, and design for my life ...

On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his ...

Sabbath rest is, of course, a commandment, ... As Rob Bell once said, we are human “beings,” not human “doings,” and we are made in the image of a God who rests.

If God rests, then we should imitate God by resting on the Sabbath day. Resting is a gift from God that reminds us we are made to reflect and represent God here on Earth.

Resting is a gift from God that reminds us we are made to reflect and represent God here on planet Earth. New Haven Register Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. Skip to main content. Subscribe.

BreakPoint: Heeding the Sabbath's blessing of rest. July 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. | Updated July 1, 2021 at 8:14 p.m.

When I asked you, dear readers, in a recent column to share with me the ways you honor the Sabbath Day, I was anticipating a flood of responses from orthodox Jewish readers. I was therefore ...

And each Sabbath trained God’s people to entrust to Him the burdens that remained on their minds from the previous week’s labors, and their worries of the week ahead. Don’t miss that last part.

Rest is such a necessary and vital part of being human, and yet so many of us find ourselves hustling through life at a chaotic and blistering pace, simply trying to make ends meet and check all th… ...