{"id":2594,"date":"2013-04-05T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2013-04-05T21:36:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T02:36:50","slug":"and-you-will-find-rest-for-your-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2013\/04\/and-you-will-find-rest-for-your-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; and you will find REST for your souls."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/04\/Rest-in-Jesus-Christ.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2594]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2596\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/04\/Rest-in-Jesus-Christ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/04\/Rest-in-Jesus-Christ.jpg 462w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2013\/04\/Rest-in-Jesus-Christ-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><em>Today\u2019s post is written by Matt Nightingale, Director of Worship Ministries at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcctulsa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Redeemer Covenant Church<\/a>\u00a0in Tulsa, OK.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>It\u2019s the week after Easter, and if you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019re exhausted. From Palm Sunday with the children\u2019s choir to the haunting darkness of Good Friday to the color and light of Easter Sunday, with rehearsals and decorating and sound checks and videos and emails and programs\u2026 And then it\u2019s over. And now, not even one week later, we\u2019re about to \u201cdo Sunday\u201d all over again.<\/p>\n<p>How do you recover from Holy Week? How do you rest and refresh? Or do you just run headlong into the next sermon series thinking to yourself, \u201cI\u2019ll slow down and rest <em>next<\/em> month\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus says, \u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I really want to know: How do you put this into practice? What does it mean for <em>you<\/em> to go to Jesus, to take up His yoke, learn from Him and find rest for your soul?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2594&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s post is written by Matt Nightingale, Director of Worship Ministries at\u00a0Redeemer Covenant Church\u00a0in Tulsa, OK. It\u2019s the week after Easter, and if you\u2019re anything like me, you\u2019re exhausted. From Palm Sunday with the children\u2019s choir to the haunting darkness of Good Friday to the color and light of Easter Sunday, with rehearsals and decorating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,99,19827],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-holy-week","category-vocational-excellence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>... and you will find REST for your souls. - Worship Connect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2013\/04\/and-you-will-find-rest-for-your-souls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"... and you will find REST for your souls. - Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today\u2019s post is written by Matt Nightingale, Director of Worship Ministries at\u00a0Redeemer Covenant Church\u00a0in Tulsa, OK. 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