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...
A debtor (1) [Romans 8:12-17] What do you think of when you hear the word “debtor”? When we think of a “debtor,” we can usually think of a person who has borrowed money and is in a position to pay it back. As an example, we can take Matthew 18:24. When a king was accounting with his servants, one “debtor” of ten thousand talents (v. 24) had nothing to pay (v. 25), so he fell on his knees and bowed before the king and said, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay you back everything’ (v. 26). Then the master of the servant had compassion on him and let him go and forgave the debt (v. 27). But the servant whose debt of ten thousand talents was forgiven met another servant who owed him a hundred denarius and grabbed him and began to choke him and said “Pay back what you own me! (v. 28). His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, “Be patient with me, and...