September 30th, 2025
Read Mark 6:30-31 NIV The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” […]
September 29th, 2025
Read Jeremiah 17:5-8 NIV This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes.They will dwell in […]
September 28th, 2025
Read 1 John 2:6 CSB The one who says he remains in him should walk just as he walked. Today I am writing from my deck on what might be one of the few warm fall days we have left. There is a nice breeze and the sun is shining! I can hear the trees […]
September 27th, 2025
Read: Genesis 2:1-3 (NIV) “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he […]
September 26th, 2025
Read: Isaiah 58:13-14 (NIV) “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking […]
September 25th, 2025
Read: Hebrews 4:9-10 (NIV) “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.” If the Sabbath was instituted to remind the Israelites of their freedom from Egyptian bondage, what does it mean for us today? The answer […]
September 24th, 2025
Read: Psalm 23:1-2 (NIV) “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters.” “He makes me lie down in green pastures.” The verb here is intentional. It’s not a suggestion, it’s a command. Think of a farmer gently guiding his sheep to […]
September 23rd, 2025
Read: Exodus 16:28-29 (NIV) “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘How long will you refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? Bear in mind that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on […]
September 22nd, 2025
Read: Matthew 12:1-13 (NIV) “At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, ‘Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.’ He answered, ‘Haven’t you read […]
September 21st, 2025
Read: Exodus 20:8-11 (NRSV) “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, […]
