Finding Rest and Renewal in God's Presence

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### Quotes for Outreach

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"The good in Jesus is that we read throughout the Bible about times when Jesus and his disciples also felt this way. Where the prophets in the Old Testament also felt this way. Where they really felt like their world and life were falling apart. Some of us feel far from God. Others of us feel close to God. But still, we may feel tired. And so both the Bible and the world offer us answers about rest." [32:00] (-1925 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"God meets him at the place where he is the most tired. And God gives him food. God meets him in the cave, which often symbolizes a place where someone hides away. Like some of you, where you also feel like hiding away from the world. Where no one should see you or find you. I always used to lie under my bed when I was in a very dark, really difficult space." [49:08] (-1309 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"I think it’s important that we remember that in God there is always peace and rest. And He invites us in our journey and in the relationship we have with Him to come back and just remember what practical things we can work into our lives." [01:01:03] (-1360 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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### Quotes for Members

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"I think a task he had to perform as a prophet for the people, to represent the people before God maybe, but also to try to tell them that the Baal prophets and idolatry are not who we are. His own community, his own people, turn away from him. His own people turn away from God. So he has to constantly deal with the struggle between his people turning away from God." [43:33] (-443 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"And so, in this quarter, what is on my heart is not that it should be a sad quarter and sermons. My heart and my goal with many of our themes is that we hopefully do not need to end up in that position. But that we learn practical things from what we see right in the Bible about how we can look at our own lives in a healthy way." [53:26] (1045 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"And so, in Elijah's place, where he is already tired, feeling alone, discouraged, then all these dramatic things also come. And each time we read, but God is not in those dramatic things. And where Elijah meets God is in the still, windless, quiet place. And in that place, God almost gives a new purpose and a new identity to Elijah for the future." [51:07] (959 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"I want to invite everyone who is sitting here and really in a difficult place to please come chat with me or myself. I want you to know that there is a place where we, together as a congregation, can get through difficult times. I don't think it is said enough and invited enough that this place is there for everyone." [54:30] (-518 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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"I want to invite you that we walk a path together where we can learn together to keep awesome, learn together to rest, to be able to become quiet, to be able to learn to pray, to be able to learn what the Sabbath is, what it means to hear God's voice, how it sounds, or how it looks, or how it feels, so that we hopefully do not end up in a similar space." [55:40] (-113 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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