Listen as Pastor Clint explores the practice of Sabbath, and how this ancient practice--woven into the very fabric of creation--serves as our cure for busyness.
Sermon Resources:
1. “The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing” -Ecclesiastes 1:8
2. “Desire alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal.” -David Hume
3. “I can’t get no satisfaction.” -Mick Jagger
5. Article on workism: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/
6. Study on overwork in American culture compared to other cultures - see International Labor Organization stats in "Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus," p. 140
7. A.J. Swoboda, "Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World"
8. C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"
10. “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in you.” -Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions"
11. John Walton, Commentary on Genesis
12. “In the relentless busyness of modern life, we have lost the rhythm between work and rest. All life requires a rhythm of rest. There is a rhythm in our waking activity and the body's need for sleep. There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea. In our bodies, the heart perceptibly rests after each life-giving beat; the lungs rest between the exhale and the inhale. We have lost this essential rhythm. Our culture invariably supposes that action and accomplishment are better than rest, that doing something--anything--is better than doing nothing. Because of our desire to succeed, to meet these ever-growing expectations, we do not rest. Because we do not rest, we lose our way. We miss the compass points that would show us where to go, we bypass the nourishment that would give us support. We miss the quiet that would give us wisdom. We miss the joy and love born of effortless delight. Poisoned by this hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we can never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.” -Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Finding Rest, "Renewal, and Delight In Our Busy Lives"
13. Study on overwork: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/26/working-more-than-50-hours-makes-you-less-productive.html
14. Study on Microsoft work experiment: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50287391
14. Seventh-Day Adventist Life Expectancy: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seventh-day-adventists-life-expectancy_n_5638098
15. “The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Sabbath"
16. “He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. He must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquiring. He must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of man. Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel, "Sabbath"
17. “Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms. Whereas Israelites are always tempted to acquiring, Sabbath is an invitation to receptivity, an acknowledgment that what is needed is given and need not be seized.” -Brueggemann, “Sabbath As Resistance: Saying No To The Culture of Now”
18. “If the devil can’t make us bad, he’ll make us busy.” -Corrie Ten Boom
