Sabbath Keeping

Finding Freedom in the Rhythms of Rest

By: Lynne M. Baab

Narrated by: Brittney Wilkerson

Let's give ourselves an A for effort.

• We keep our minds so preoccupied with work projects that we act and think on autopilot.
• We keep our kids so occupied with activities that they need day planners before grade school.
• We keep our schedules so full with church meetings and housekeeping and even entertaining that down-time sounds like a mortal sin.

When we fail to rest, we do more than burn ourselves out. We misunderstand the God who calls us to rest—who created us to be people of rest. Let's face it: Our rest needs work.

Sabbath recalls our creation, and with it, God's satisfaction with us as he made us, without our hurried wrangling and harried worrying. It also recalls God's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and with it, God's ability to do completely what we cannot complete in ourselves. Sabbath keeping reminds us that we are free to rest each week.

Eighteen months in Tel Aviv, Israel, where a weekly sabbath is built into the culture, began Lynne M. Baab's 25-year embrace of a rhythm of rest as a stay-at-home mom, as a professional writer working out of her home and as a minister of the gospel. With collected insights from sabbath keepers of all ages and backgrounds, Sabbath Keeping offers a practical and hopeful guidebook that encourages all of us to slow down and enjoy our relationship with the God of the universe.

©2005 Lynne M. Baab (P)2022 Lynne M. Baab

Insightful

I like the practically of the thoughts shared. It reflects a kindness that God would show us in guiding us in the way we should go.

This is a blessing 🙏🏾

A brother in Christ at our church let me borrow his paperback version & I started reading it. After a few days I bought the audiobook so I could return his paperback. I finished listening to it over the course of 2 weeks. It's very good.

Direct advice!

This book offers direct advice about how and when to sabbath. This is especially important for people who work during the traditional sabbath day. The narrator’s voice takes getting used to and she sounds like siri if you playback at 1.2 speed.