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...
The secret of victory [Psalms 18:28-42] Yesterday at 8 o’clock in the evening, there was a soccer game between the Korean national team and LA Galaxy. One of the controversial focal points was whether to use a “three-back” or “four-back” defense system. The three-back defense system is typical and familiar to the Korean players, and the four-back defense system is the new defense system to them. It is said that during the 2002 World Cup, Hiddink also tried to use the four-back defense system, but was unable to adapt to it, so he returned to three-back defense system. Professor Lee Yong-soo, Sejong University, who was the chairman of the technical committee at that time, said, ‘In fact, whether it is a three-back or four-back is an inappropriate classification of the dichotomy. Although Hiddink used a three-back,...