Highland Park Christian Church

3 - Sabbath Rest (1/17/21) 2:20 Update!!! Deeply Formed Life – Redwood Tree. Roots. God gives blessings. Sabbath Rest is one of them. The Sabbath is a set aside time of unhurried delight with God. It’s an invitation to a life not dominated and distorted by overwork. Jesus remembered the Sabbath, but not in ways that the religious leaders always liked. They’d created their own rules. They were ridiculous. They even criticized Jesus for healing someone on the Sabbath. We think so often about how the Pharisees abused people with the Sabbath that we forget how God blesses people with the Sabbath. Read & Teach Mark 2:23-28 Referenced David in I Samuel 21 We need this gift because our instinct is to live stressed-out lives. Over 50 years ago, famous newscaster Walter Kronkite talked about what life would be like in homes in the future. He came really close to getting a few things right, but he missed terribly on one prediction. Watch this. We’ll put a link to the full video on our website if you want