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Key Resources Consulted

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

by John Mark Comer

How to

Unhurry

Workbook

by John Mark Comer

Bridgetown Church Sermon Audio Podcast ‘Rest For Your Soul’ by John Mark Comer 1-6-19

Confessions

by Augustine

Symphony of Mission

by Mullins and Goheen

The Good and Beautiful God

by James Bryan Smith

Working the Angles

by Eugene Peterson

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook

by Adele Calhoun

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Keep Reading Scripture

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• Feb. 8-12 Mark 1-5

• Feb. 15-19 Mark 6-10

• Feb. 22-26 Mark 11-16

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What would it take to satisfy desire?

-Thomas Aquinas

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What would it take to satisfy desire?

EVERYTHING!

-Thomas Aquinas

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The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing

.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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Humanity lives with a

chronic

condition

of

unsatisfied

desire

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Human desire is infinite because

we are made to live with God in this world forever

. Forever gives you a chance to experience everything. Yet at this time, we are limited.

- John Mark Comer

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So what should you do?

Buddhism



detach from desire

- Most people

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keep experiencing!

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We are made for God, and our hearts are restless until we find our rest in thee.

Augustine

Confessions

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Desire is infinite partly because we were made by God, made for God, made to need God, and made to run on God.

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We can be satisfied only by the one who is infinite, eternal and able to supply our needs. We are only at home in God. When we fall away from God, the desire for infinite remains.

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But it is displaced upon things that will certainly lead to destruction. The default setting of the human condition post Eden is not atheism, but idolatry.

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To aim our desire not at God, but to aim it at whatever our desire of choice might be.

-Dallas Willard

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We have become perhaps the most emotionally exhausted, psychologically overworked, spiritually malnourished, people the world has ever known.

- John Mark Comer

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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:28-30

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The Cost Restlessness

Without lots of

real

rest we cannot be the kind of people who treat our children with kindness, weather disappointment, or even wait in a long line at the grocery store without getting frustrated.

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Do you view rest and having margin as essential to

the way of Jesus?

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Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a

real rest

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Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it.

Learn the unforced rhythms of grace

. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.

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Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.

Eugene Peterson

Matthew 11:28-30

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While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

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Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

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Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

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Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

Luke 5:12-15

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But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Luke 5:16

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But Jesus

often

withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

Luke 5:16

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In the incarnation, Jesus dwelled with us to show us the glory of God and to enter into the brutality of humanity. The humanity of Jesus wasn't merely a mask to hide his divine identity.

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Jesus was truly human, with chapped lips, childhood friends, and the occasional need of an afternoon nap. Jesus' humanity was full and gritty.

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Splinters pierced his skin during his carpentry work long before nails pierced his flesh during his work on the cross.

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Before the glory of the resurrection, Jesus rose from bed nearly 12,000 times, rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, and stepped into the mundane rhythms of humanity

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working and playing, learning and teaching, laughing and crying. He's the God who multiplied fish for the nations - he was also the human with tilapia in his teeth.

Symphony of Mission

Mullins & Goheen

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Sabbath has been largely forgotten by the church. It’s not that we don’t love God. We love him deeply. We just don’t know how to sit with him.

AJ Swoboda

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Margin-less is being 30 minutes late to the Dr.'s office because you were 20 minutes late out of the hairdresser's because you were 10 minutes late dropping the children off at school because the car ran out of gas 2 blocks from the gas station - and you forgot your purse.

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Margin, on the other hand, is having breath left at the top of the staircase, money left at the end of the month, and sanity left at the end of (your children’s) adolescence.

Dr. Richard Swensen

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Restfulness is

:

Margin

Busyness

Slow

Hurry

Quiet

Noise

Deep Relationships

Isolation

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Restfulness is

:

Delight

Distraction

Enjoyment

Envy

Gratitude

Greed

Contentment

Discontentment

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Restfulness is

:

From Love

For Love

Trust in God

Anxiety

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

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Sabbath means quit. Stop. Take a break. Cool it. The word itself has nothing devout or holy in it. It is a word about time, denoting our nonuse of it, what we usually call wasting time.

Working the Angles

by Eugene Peterson

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

Rest

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What is your alternative to work? Is it rest, or is it a different kind of work: work around the house or in the yard? Is it doing finances? Cleaning the house? Can you ever stop production and let down? Honestly where does rest fit in?

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Rest is a radical thing in our day and age. It reminds us that we are human beings, not human doings. We are meant to live sane lives that partake of a deep and playful holy leisure.

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There is enough time in each day and week for all that God requires of us. And part of what he requires is rest.

Adele Calhoun

Spiritual Disciplines Handbook

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

Rest

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

Rest

Delight

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Delight

Curl up by the fireplace or AC

Go for a hike

Take a catnap

Call someone you love

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Delight

Eat your favorite foods

Go on a picnic & notice the wind

Make love to your spouse

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Four Invitations of Sabbath

Stop

Rest

Delight

Worship

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Truly, my soul finds

rest in God.

Psalm 62:1a

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