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Keeping The Pace of God | A New Story for Work and Rest - Revelation 21:1-6 - Clint Leavitt
Keeping The Pace of God | A New Story for Work and Rest - Revelation 21:1-6 - Clint Leavitt by Midtown Presbyterian Church
4 Oct 2026
Keeping The Pace of God | Identity Shifting - Deuteronomy 5:12-15 - Tom Parker
What if one of God's most countercultural commands turned out to be one of his greatest gifts?
As our teaching series on work and rest nears its close, we explore the fourth commandment, the Sabbath, through the lens of Deuteronomy 5:12-15, where Moses calls the people of Israel to observe a day of rest rooted not just in creation, but in redemption. Tom traces the story of a people who had been enslaved for centuries, who had never known the freedom to stop, to breathe, to simply be. Into that story, God speaks a command that must have sounded almost too good to be true: you cannot work. We wrestle with what it means to take that command seriously today, not out of rigid rule-keeping, but out of genuine trust in the God who rescued us. Along the way, we are reminded that Sabbath is not just about rest for ourselves -- it carries a moral dimension that extends to everyone around us, a call to ensure that those who serve us and work alongside us are also given the dignity of rest. This is a message about formation, about how the rhythms we build into our lives shape who we become and whose we are.
27 Sept 2026
Keeping The Pace of God | The Problem of Work - Genesis 3:1-19 - Clint Leavitt
What if the frustrations of our work are not signs that we have failed, but rather signs that we are living in a world that was made for something better? That is the question at the heart of this week's message, which draws us into one of the most foundational passages in all of Scripture, Genesis 3. Here we encounter the moment when human work shifted from a sacred partnership with God into something marked by toil, incompleteness, and disappointment. But far from being a story of defeat, this passage offers us an honest and ultimately hopeful diagnosis of why our work feels the way it does. We are introduced to two inadequate responses that many of us default to without realizing it: the romantic approach, which loads all our hope onto finding the perfect job or calling, and the cynical approach, which concludes that none of it matters anyway. Scripture refuses both of those exits and instead invites us into a more truthful and more life-giving vision. When we understand that the thorns and thistles of our work are a consequence of a broken world rather than a personal verdict on our worth, we begin to find a kind of freedom that neither romanticism nor cynicism can offer. This message calls us to name the real problem honestly and to discover that an honest diagnosis is actually the first step toward healing.
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