The Word Made Clear
When someone labours over how Scripture looks on the page, they join an old and quiet work: helping people read.
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When someone labours over how Scripture looks on the page, they join an old and quiet work: helping people read.
When rest feels like one more task, an old invitation asks less of us than we fear.
There is an invitation for the tired, and it asks less of you than you fear.
Rest is not a reward for finishing the work; it is an invitation offered in the middle of it.
Rest is not a reward for finishing; it is an invitation offered while the work is still undone.
Jesus touches a leper in Mark 1, and the touch teaches as much as the healing.
Romans 5:1 describes a peace that rests on a finished verdict rather than a settled mood.
James 1:9-11 turns the usual social order upside down and asks believers on both ends of it to boast in the right thing.
Jesus' word about the Sabbath reorders the relationship between people and the rules meant to serve them.
Jesus' healing of a man with leprosy reverses the direction in which uncleanness usually travels.