How We Practice Sabbath [Cultivating Spiritual Growth in Your Home 3 of 5]

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 3 of 5 in our Summer Series called, Cultivating a Spiritual Growth Environment in Your Home.

There are many misconceptions about what practicing the Sabbath, or ceasing from work, really entails. People often view Sabbath as a day for lounging around the house, binging a show on Netflix, or just doing nothing. Those things can be fine, but do they really bring about "soul rest?"

In this episode, Josh and Christi go in-depth about the purpose and meaning of Sabbath, and the unique ways they have learned to cultivate it in their home.

Josh and Christi talk about:

Shabbat dinner as a fun, family-centric rhythm for your weekly Sabbath
Why Sabbath rest is a gift from God and how you can make it work to fit your family dynamic
How to fight against the pull of Western culture away from the biblical gift of Sabbath

This series comes with a pdf workbook / discussion guide to go along with all five episodes (found in show notes below). You can use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.

Show Notes:
Download the Shabbat Meal Guide:
https://www.famousathome.com/summerseriessignup

Download the free workbook / discussion guide for the Summer Series: https://www.famousathome.com/summerseriessignup

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https://youtu.be/uLsl2qlOuS8

Time Stamps:
0:45 Introduction
4:00 What’s coming up for the podcast
8:15 The one rhythm we wish we’d have started sooner
11:55 The reason for Sabbath
13:45 "Remember" and "observe" the Sabbath
15:59 What Sabbath is
17:30 Description of our Friday night Shabbat dinner
20:30 What brings you soul rest?
22:46 What Sabbath day specifically looks like for us
29:24 Kid’s sports, work, and other barriers to Sabbath
37:55 Friday night dinner
43:28 What does it mean to live in a biblical household?

Transcript

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0:00.0	What we experience, people get super defensive when they've not done this. And it's like,
0:06.4	I don't, that doesn't work for me. So then they just ex-nay it all together as if like that's not
0:10.8	possible. And I just want to push back on that. I don't, there is a way for this to be, for you to
0:18.7	receive the gift. And I think that's all it is.
0:22.4	Ask the Lord, like Holy Spirit, like how are we to receive this as a gift?
0:27.7	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:33.5	Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:43.3	Welcome back to the Famous at Home podcast.
0:46.1	We are in episode three this week of our five-part series on the cultivating the spiritual
0:51.7	growth environment in your home.
0:54.0	This week we're talking about how we practice Sabbath, which is really fun.
0:58.5	I love Sabbath.
1:00.0	The whole idea here is that we work from rest, not for rest.
1:05.0	And so this week we get a lot of questions about how do you guys practice Sabbath?
1:08.6	What does rest look like in your home?
1:10.5	This week we're going to talk about that. I am super excited because part of my rest,
1:15.1	actually, especially in the fall, is if you're watching this on YouTube, you'll see I'm wearing
1:18.8	a Penn State shirt today. I, uh, college football season is coming up and it is one of those
1:24.4	things that I just enjoy doing. Um, it kind of gets me my mind out of the day to day.
1:31.4	And so I just enjoy falling college football. That's an example for me of one thing that I kind of do
1:36.2	on the weekends in the fall, just kind of, yeah, rest. And so what is it that you love to do to rest? What are the things that you enjoy doing?
1:46.4	Typically what we talk about in this idea of Sabbath is soul rest, doing things that really help
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