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Ceasing from work

Read Exodus 20.1-8 . As we continue our series on Sabbath as Resistance, take time today to reflect upon these questions based on Receiving The Day by Dorothy Bass: How might ceasing from work one day a week reshape your work and attitudes on the other six? What is the advantage of a pattern of Sabbath time, as opposed to snatching odd moments or hours of Sabbath time?  In what ways can members of a worshiping community help one another…

Toward Sunday

We continue our three-week worship series this week on Summer Sabbath.   We hope this worship series will help us to reclaim the significance of Sabbath.  Each week will focus upon a particular expression of Sabbath from scripture.  Our worship series is based on a book called Sabbath as Resistance:  Saying NO to the CULTURE OF NOW  by Walter Brueggemann who is a professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. Outline of Sabbath as Resistance August 17 Genesis…

Thistle Farms

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/64927155] Thistle Farms is a social enterprise of women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction, and life on the streets. By hand the women create natural body care products.  At Thistle Farms the belief is that love is stronger than all the forces that drive women to the streets.  Learn more about Thistle Farms . How might your choices this week reflect your commitment to follow Jesus?  How might the purchase of products produced by labors of love…
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