Bank Holidays: A time for rest, relaxation and being stuck in traffic jams around the country.
Weekends: A time for rest, watching plenty of sport and doing those jobs around the home that can’t be done during the working week.
The Sabbath: A day of rest, roast dinners and a visit to the church to meet with God and your friends.
The above are also a time for a few unsung heroes. Many Bank Holidays now coincide with Christian festivals. These festivals are times when people meet together in fellowship, learn more about God and become spiritually recharged to return home. Weekends and Sundays are full of sermon preparation, staying spiritually in tune and delivering sermons, sometimes including justifying why the sermon sounded like it did.
Bank holidays, weekends and the Sabbath: a time of rest... but not for everyone.
And many of those who don’t get a rest, when most other people do, are people like you.
While many were being recharged, bathed in sunshine and relaxing you may have been helping at a festival, leading a service or delivering a sermon. Hopefully you’ll find time to rest during the week before next weekend. However, we know that many of you will be doing something similar next week, and the week after and so on. For that we thank you, and we pray that God will bless you. We also want to make things a little easier for you.
The Seed exists to make preparation for festivals, services and sermons as simple and painless as possible. With over 43,000 resources available you’ll find ideas, images and inspiration just a click away. With the support of LWPT you may also qualify for a free subscription.
You can also use The Seed to recharge your batteries. The images, prayers and Bible study materials are there for you to use as well.
On behalf of all the people who were brought closer to God this past weekend through your work I thank you, but do remember to take a break yourself, to rest and recharge.
