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Sabbath fire

June 17, 2025 Mark Brians

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The connection with fire is not unimportant, it is not a scribal addition, nor is it a signal that what Moses is recording is a “stream of consciousness” mode of divine speech —like YHWH could have profited from cue cards. No. There is in the mind of YHWH a unique link between household fires being kindled and the sabbath. And though there are several things we could do with this link, there is one that I have become fixated on as of late…

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Tags sabbath, rest, fire, flame, YHWH, Lord's Day, Sunday, Genesis 1:3, Exodus 35, Byung-Chul Han, Gaston Bachelard, James B. Jordan, Death Penalty

Advent rest, brief notes

December 9, 2024 Mark Brians

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There is a lot of talk today about “un-hurrying” and of “resting.” The general sentiment seems to be that we do not know how to rest in society today. I think that, generally, this is true. We are increasingly anxious, inundated, exhausted, and fatigued. And that is not how God meant for things to be. That is also not how he has called us, Christians, to live. I do have an increasing concern, however, that much of what is offered as alternatives to our over-labored condition is actually not rest —actually makes the problem worse. Advent gives us a good time to re-orient ourselves towards biblical rest, and not merely to the bundle of sabbath-less practices on offer in consumer culture which, while masquerading as rest, only make our restlessness worse. As we continue to journey through Advent I’d like to offer a couple of reflections on ways in which, this season, we can enter more fully into God’s rest.

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Tags rest, sabbath, god, advent, leisure, sleep, eating, lights, darkness
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