The Sabbath is Holy, meaning it has been set aside for the purpose of worship. We are invited to keep the Sabbath Holy. You can arrange the Day when you enter the Sabbath around acts of devotion to God. It is not like a day off, it is a day for us to intentionally enter...
It is not just that God is inviting the poor and the hungry to his table, it I that He is expecting us to invite the poor and the hungry to ours and use our tables as means of Kingdom Justice.
For Jesus, it was common practice to withdraw from the crowds, go to a lonely place, and quietly be with God. This is one of the core practices of the way of Jesus. It is one of the places we get healing for our souls as we just sit beheld in the father’s loving-kindness.
It is more important that you pray, even when your prayer is just a phrase, a sentence, a breathe. It is important that you pray because your father in Heaven longs to be with you and prayer is the means through which we experienced life with the father. Jesus teaches a few things about what...
