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Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.   <\/em>Matthew 11:28-30 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the beginning<\/em> <\/em>God created<\/em> <\/em>the heavens<\/em> <\/em>and the earth.<\/em> <\/em>2Now the earth was formless<\/em> <\/em>and empty,<\/em> <\/em>darkness was over the surface of the deep,<\/em> <\/em>and the Spirit of God<\/em> <\/em>was hovering<\/em> <\/em>over the waters.<\/em> 3And God said,<\/em> <\/em>\u201cLet there be light,\u201d and there was light.<\/em> <\/em>4God saw that the light was good,<\/em> <\/em>and he separated the light from the darkness. 5God called<\/em> <\/em>the light \u201cday,\u201d and the darkness he called \u201cnight.\u201d<\/em> <\/em>And there was evening, and there was morning\u2014the first day.<\/em>    Genesis 1:1-5 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So God created<\/em> <\/em>mankind<\/em> <\/em>in his own image,<\/em>in the image of God<\/em> <\/em>he created them;<\/em>male and female<\/em> <\/em>he created them. … <\/em>31God saw all that he had made,<\/em> <\/em>and it was very good.<\/em> <\/em>And there was evening, and there was morning\u2014the sixth day.<\/em>    Genesis 1:27, 31 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To rest is to trust that what God has done is enough<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened,<\/em> <\/em>and he saw the Spirit of God<\/em> <\/em>descending like a dove and alighting on him.<\/em> <\/em>17And a voice from heaven<\/em> <\/em>said, \u201cThis is my Son,<\/em> <\/em>whom I love; with him I am well pleased.\u201d<\/em>    Matthew 3:16-17 NIV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s to-DONE list is more important than your to-DO list<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.   Matthew 11:28-30 NIV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3And God said, \u201cLet there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[110],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11528","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-jesse-loew","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11528\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=11528"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=11528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}