Every day, you are confronted with a gospel written by and made popular by this world. These ‘worldly gospels’ demand your affections, sacrifice, and worship, but they all fall woefully short of the promises of Jesus Christ. In this new series, we’re exploring the differences between two kingdoms — those of this world and God’s heavenly Kingdom. What are the cultural narratives of our day, and how do the Gospels provide a ‘counter-narrative ’? Listen in as Jeff starts our series by looking at the cultural lie that you need to wake up and “Rise & Grind” to experience the future you’ve always dreamed of.

Our 4 letter word for this week is ‘rest.’ We love the idea of rest as a culture but it often times makes us feel weak or inadequate when we take time to rest. Natalie will be looking at Jesus invitation for us to rest in Him and will be sharing practical tools for us to lean into the rest Jesus has promised for us.

God commands us to remember the sabbath, but our busy 24-7 culture and lack of deep rest indicate that we might be distracted and forgetful.

Jeff Faust talks about the opportunity to rest that the COVID-19 virus is giving us. We can easily fall into a frenzied lifestyle of getting everything done that we can or a consumptive lifestyle of binging on Netflix, sermons, and social media. But even the latter is not true rest. It will disappoint us. Fortunately, Jesus invites us to true rest for our soul, a rest that refreshes our whole being. What would it do for our lives if we could experience consistent, deep, and real rest?