Episode 106: Why We're Taking a Sabbatical with Nick Connolly
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.9 • 872 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week, I sit down with my husband, Pastor Nick, to talk about our upcoming sabbatical. We share why stepping back to rest, repair, and delight in God is so needed, for pastors and for all of us. If you’ve ever felt tired but loved what you do, this episode will hit home.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, |
| 0:07.1 | and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.4 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.4 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.4 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, |
| 0:38.8 | I am praying for you and I'm so glad you're here from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you, |
| 0:47.9 | and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. Nick Connolly, welcome back to the podcast. It's good to be here. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm not going to do an intro. Let's just jump right into it. Let's do it. Okay. When this episode airs, it will air on November 3rd. |
| 0:55.9 | Okay, wow. |
| 0:56.8 | Okay, yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | What is the significance of November 3rd? |
| 1:01.4 | We will have day one of our sabbatical have been started. |
| 1:05.6 | Day one of our sabbatical. |
| 1:06.8 | So I invited you on the podcast to basically just talk about sabbatical. Okay. What is a sabbatical? Why are we taking a sabbatical? What are we going to do on our sabbatical? What are our hopes and dreams and years of said sabbatical? So will you start with, hi, by the way, we're Justin Nick Connolly. You were going to do intros. Well, I mean, I mean, like, you know, basics, the basics. |
| 1:29.7 | We lead a church called Bright City Church in downtown Charleston. |
| 1:33.5 | We also each kind of have some other various roles. |
| 1:37.0 | And we are taking a sabbatical. |
| 1:39.0 | We're taking a three-month sabbatical, specifically from Bright City for November, December, and January. |
| 1:43.8 | So will you start with first, sir, what is a sabbatical, specifically from Bright City for November, December, and January. So will you start with, |
| 1:45.8 | first, sir, what is a sabbatical? Yes, a sabbatical. I don't know if there's like a specific |
| 1:51.6 | definition, but rooted in, I think it's literally like Leviticus 25. It just talks about having |
| 1:57.6 | every seventh year. So you do six years. And on the seventh year, you let the |
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