https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gods-invitation-rest/ Accept God’s Invitation to Rest August 24, 2025 | Scott W. Kay © iStock.com/nullplus Share Post Email Advertise on TGC “It feels so nice to finally stop and catch my breath.” Can you remember the last time you had a moment like that? For some of us, it’s been a while. In our hard-working, highly productive culture, we can sometimes feel like exhausted swimmers swept downstream in a fast-moving river, fighting to keep our heads above water, gasping for air. We get up early and stay up late. We never waste a minute. Our schedule is full, running here, running there, running late, running to catch up, running on empty, until we collapse in utter exhaustion. Underneath the satisfaction of being hard-working, hard-playing people is a weariness that’s desperate for the pace to relent so we can rest and recharge. Deep down, we’re dying to slow down and take a break. We keep telling ours...
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?” [Romans 11:25-36] During the morning prayer meeting last week, I received a lesson from God about ‘The church dispute' centered on 1 Corinthians 1:10. The lesson of God is that there are three causes of disputes in the church. The three causes are: (1) not agreeing with one another, (2) not uniting in mind, and (3) not saying the same thing. The reason why all the members of the Corinthian church did not have the same mind was because they were proud (4:6). And because of their pride, they went beyond what is written (4:6) and boasted of themselves rather than the Lord (1:31). As a result, there was envy and strife in the Corinthian church (3:3). Upon hearing the news of this conflict, the apostle Paul (1:11) wrote a letter to the Corinthian church and said: “Is Christ divided?” (1:13) In order for us to keep the unity of the church, we all must have the...