We live in a world of clocks and calendars that seem to shout all the time, "Faster. Faster. More. More." We may not be able to escape our culture but we can resist it.

We were made to work and rest, but we often see rest as a means to an end to bring more productivity to our work. When we cease we realize we are not in control. When we cease we are faced with the question, "What makes me worthy?"

The Sabbath gives us a new way to approach the anxiety in our lives, by allowing us to rest and trust in God’s provision and promises.

The Sabbath gives us a small glimpse of the rest into which we will finally enter in the new creation.

The Sabbath is a picture of God’s redeeming work - that we are not saved by our works but simply by resting in Christ.

God’s pattern of creating the world becomes the pattern for our own weekly rhythms, such that the Sabbath ushers us into the practices of reflecting on God as Creator, ourselves as finite creatures, and our lives as dependent and shaped by God’s ways.

The Sabbath is a gift from heaven that evidences God’s kind and gracious provision.

Many of us have a dysfunctional relationship to time but God has built for us a sanctuary in time.

The book of Revelation ends with the promise and the hope that Jesus is coming. This is what grounds our worship and our way of life.

The new creation is a city of glory, where kings bring their glory into it, but also a garden of healing, where the nations of the world find full and final healing.