{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Church OKC","title":"Stronger - Rest Must Be Stronger Than Exhaustion","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3386,"description":"How can a people with so many time-saving devices live such lesuireless lives? \nAddiction is the relentless pull to a substance or an activity that becomes so compulsive it ultimately interferes with everyday life. \nMatthew 11:28-29\nCome to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. \nMatthew 11:28-29 (MSG)\nAre you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. \nJesus' yoke is better than a bed because a power nap is not what we need to find rest for our souls; we need a new framework for life. \nSt. Augustine\nOur hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.\nREST MUST BE STRONGER THAN EXHAUSTION \nMark 2:23-27\nOne Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, \"Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?\"..... And he said to them, \"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.\" \nSabbath | Shabbat | To Stop & Delight\nJustin Whitmel Earley\nSabbath is a whimsical rebellion against the idea that work is the only important thing in the \nworld. \nRuth Haley Barton\nSabbath keeping is the linchpin of a life lived in sync with the rhythms that God himself built into our world, and yet it is the discipline that seems hardest for us to live. Sabbath keeping honors the body's need for rest, the spirit's need for replenishment and the soul's need to delight itself in God for God's own sake. \nRich Villodas\nSabbath keeping is a weekly twenty-four-hour period of unhurried...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bnHuiqv1vzbVKS3-CGSScUOuOFSAm4CGeToUp1bnpos/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTVl/MTRhMTgxNzM4MDZl/YmFlNGVmYzkzMGRm/MjkyZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}