The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath
Many of us have endless demands and stifling daily routines. Learn why Sabbath is essential to our full humanity and faith, a rhythm of work and rest set by God that if restored to our lives will bring prolonged life, enriched relationships, increased fruitfulness, and abundant joy.
We are waylaid by endless demands and stifling routines. Even our vacations have a panicky, task-like edge to them. “If I only had more time,” is the mantra of our age. But is this the real problem? Pastor Mark Buchanan believes that what we’ve really lost is the rest of God—the rest God bestows and, with it, that part of himself we can know only through stillness.
In The Rest of God, you’ll:
- Form a deeper relationship with God by understanding Sabbath’s true purpose
- Learn how Sabbath allows us to live more fully into our status as free people, released from the grueling, incessant demands of life
- Connect Sabbath to the ultimate rest—heaven
- Receive practical advice for restoring Sabbath in your life
With this book, Buchanan reminds us that Sabbath is about much more than going to church on Sunday. It's about the much-needed time to be still. The gift of Sabbath is essential to our full humanity and faith. God, knowing that and knowing how easily we might neglect it, made it a command. Begin your own journey of restoration and renewal!
Top Highlights
“Pride usurps God. Pride inverts the universe’s deepest truth: that we need and serve God. Pride gets this exactly backward. Pride is the delusion that God, if he exists, is awfully lucky I’ve shown up and should mind his p’s and q’s lest I change my mind.” (source)
“To keep Sabbath well—as both a day and an attitude—we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God’s sovereignty, we won’t dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we’ll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.” (source)
“The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.” (source)
“Sanctifying time works the same way. You pledge to commit yourself, all of yourself, to this time, and then you honor that commitment whether it’s convenient or not.” (source)
“Jesus makes the choice to heed his voice costly. Fishing is suddenly good. It’s suddenly hard to leave.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath
- Author: Buchanan, Mark
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2007
- ISBN: 9781418553517