sabbath

Rhythmic Swing

By Michelle Hoffschneider Most things we experience in life have a complete opposite. Night and Day.Positive and Negative.Happy and Sad.Love and Hate.Rest and Exertion. You can’t have one without experiencing the other; it is a world of …

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The Art of Doing Nothing

by Michelle Hoffschneider Time is the most precious and overdrawn resource we all have. We are constantly deciding how to use it best with schedules and plans. With new modern distractions, sleep, stillness, solitude, and sabbath can …

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Onward!

In the last 8 years, Run Hard. Rest Well.® has impacted over 22,000 people and you are one of them! We have been entrusted with the message “Run Hard. Rest Well.” It’s not our message – not one …

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Spiritual Discipline During Lent

Lent. This is the time of year when many Christians participate in various spiritual disciplines. Some people give up a particular food or commit to rise early to spend more time in scripture. There is a wide …

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Redefining Sabbath

By Brenda Jank In 2015 I spoke at the National Student Leadership Conference at Taylor University. Vision-casting was evident at every turn. Joy flowed freely through the students, the fellowship, the assembled speakers. On Saturday morning, J. …

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God on Vacation

A few years ago the Seattle Times carried an article by Shirleen Holt in which was the following: “Nearly ten million Americans worked more than sixty hours a week last year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics …

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R.I.P.

This last week I had the opportunity to “be there” for a number of hurting people. The cares of this world are often crushing. Few are immune. The following post, a repeat from July 2014, spoke to …

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Shipwrecked

How do I change the direction of this ship? I hate that my life feels like a shipwreck. It probably looks like one, too. If there was ever a shipwrecked soul (apart from me), it was Bill W., …

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Questions

March Madness is before us. Much of the madness in our lives is of our own making. It comes from the insidious pull of opportunity. Opportunity knocks and we open the door a few too many times. Stretched thin, …

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