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Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World by A.J. Swoboda
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“The great irony of Sabbath-keeping is how hard it is for us to say no to people but how with such ease we say no to being at rest with God.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Humanity had only God’s goodness to celebrate, nothing more. Work had not even begun. The Sabbath teaches us that we do not work to please God. Rather, we rest because God is already pleased with the work he has accomplished in us.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“the problem with the Sabbath is there are huge rewards and incentives for not actually doing it. Modern church growth has basically been built on no rest. Our church industrial complex generally rewards Sabbath-breaking as a rule.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“What if the church became the best place in the world to learn how to rest? This is an exhausting world, friend.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“A significant body of research suggests that even thinking about work is a stressful, anxiety-inducing activity.24 The problem is that when we think about work, it becomes work in and of itself.25 When we keep a Sabbath, it reorients the way that we think. Instead of thinking in terms of production, the day becomes about presence. Sabbath is not just ceasing from work, but ceasing to think about work.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Being a Sabbath-keeper is basically the art of letting people down at a rate they can handle. There are times we cannot meet the needs of others. There are times we trust God to help others through others. Not every need represents God’s will for our lives. How freeing! Sometimes we cannot do everything we desire, even if those desires are good and wholesome. Jesus is Lord—we are not. Paul had to learn that lesson through his Bithynia experience. If this remains true, we are freed from any kind of messiah complex that maintains that we must do something about everything. If Jesus said no, so can we.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“When God tells Eve that Adam will “rule over her,” he is simply lamenting what is to come. God is not commanding it. His language is descriptive, not prescriptive. Adam naming Eve, putting her in her place, was neither what God ordained nor desired. It is interesting that he names her for what he sees she is good for—having babies.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“This means that the litmus test for true Christian ethics is how those who follow Christ love and serve and bless those who do not.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“The only thing original about me is my sin, and even that I plagiarize most of the time.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“We think we can fulfill all our own needs with the click of a button. And in many cases we can. Because of this, we trade the kind of community that is forged around a Sabbath for a “sense” of community wherein we are not vulnerable to each other in real and tangible ways.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“To keep a Sabbath is to give time and space on our calendar to the grace of God.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“On the Sabbath, I cannot pretend to be anyone else before the living God. I have to be me.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Someone once described to me a lake that was being drained. When all the water was drained out, garbage and other debris were found at the bottom of the lake, which could then be cleaned up. Silence is giving space to see what is at the bottom of our souls.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Jesus is God being vulnerable.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“The lesson Moses learned was that he did not need to worry about when to find rest because God was more concerned with that than he would ever be. God was going ahead and preparing a place of rest for him. Our task, like Moses’s, is to enter what God has already prepared for us.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Friends, to a world that worships at the altar of hyperactivity, Sabbath raises all kinds of questions. The Sabbath is weird. The Sabbath makes us weird. And we should keep it that way.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“God’s intention is not that we use the animals in such a way that we destroy their kingdom and species. If our use of anything in God’s garden destroys or annihilates that thing, then we are improperly using it. To Sabbath is to extend the joy of the Lord to the whole of God’s garden, not just the human occupants.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“As we cease from our steady toil, we learn the valuable lesson that the whole of creation does not exist exclusively for us and to meet our desires.”18”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“The gospel is hypocritical without the social gospel, and the social gospel hollow without the gospel.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“The righteous,” Proverbs 12:10 tells us, “care for the needs of their animals.” My faith—our faith—should reach so far as to change the way that we treat the animals God has made. But”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:7–10)”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“In America today you can murder the land for private profit. . . . You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”12”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“You do not flip something you plan on living in. And yet, truth be told, for generations humanity has been flipping creation. Real work has been postponed. Decade after decade, for this or that excuse, we have abdicated real responsibility and real care for the integrity of the earth, leaving our children and grandchildren with the tasks that we have put off. In trading stewardship and husbandry of the land for quick profit, we have come to a crossroads. The consequences of our irresponsibility are upon us. Things are starting to fall apart. How could we have done this?”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“We must recognize that God’s statement “Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10) applies to creation as well. Sometimes the best thing we can do for the healing of creation is nothing at all. “Who can make muddy water clear?” Laozi writes in the Tao Te Ching. “But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually become clear of itself.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Be still. Let God do some work. Our culture says that healing can only come by doing. Scripture tells a different story. The world is healed by our stopping.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Sabbath-keeping is earth-keeping.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“When we watch the news and see stories about how creation is being harmed by the way we live, we should feel pain. We should hurt. We should groan.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Scripture does not speak about “environmentalism” as we do, because to live as a person in the ancient world was to live an environmentally friendly life.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“Evidence points to the fact that the earth, the land, and the creation are deeply exhausted. If we were to pay attention, we would see that what we are doing to the planet is not advantageous to its health—and by extension, to our own.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
“In our insane curiosity to gain knowledge and have power over the world, we have minimized the world.”
A.J. Swoboda, Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World

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