Noticing God in Our Work and Rest with Ruth Haley Barton
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In a culture that prizes living on the verge of burnout, God invites us to embrace our human limitations and recover delight.
While performative spirituality distracts us from God’s true purposes for our lives, partnering with God in a regular practice of Sabbath can help renew our hearts to perceive his voice, counter the pressures of our productivity-driven culture, and reinvigorate the meaning of our work.
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In this episode, host Jay Y. Kim speaks with Ruth Haley Barton (Doctor of Divinity, Northern Seminary), founding president of the Transforming Center, a spiritual formation ministry to pastors and Christian leaders. As a spiritual director and retreat leader, Barton has authored several books and resources on the spiritual life, including Invitation to Retreat and Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest.
In this conversation, Kim and Barton reflect on God’s vision for Sabbath as an opportunity to cease from work, rest, worship, and delight in God and his good gifts. Through recounting their personal histories with burnout, they emphasize that regular rhythms of pause and rest foster our trust in God and awareness of his presence in our everyday life.
Tune in for practical wisdom on forming intentional rhythms of rest.
This episode highlights the following themes:
✅ Resisting external pressures to instead heed God’s voice
✅ The freedom found in embracing human limitations
✅ The biblical vision of Sabbath as a renewing act of trust in God
Links from this episode:
✅ Read Barton’s books(https://www.ivpress.com/invitation-to-retreat?utm_source=ivpod25&utm_medium=ivp_tde) Invitation to Retreat and Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest (https://www.ivpress.com/embracing-rhythms-of-work-and-rest?utm_source=ivpod25&utm_medium=ivp_tde)
✅ Check out more of Ruth Haley Barton’s books here (https://www.ivpress.com/ruth-haley-barton)
✅ Read the transcript here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtBxkXGhVblnMZO4sQ-mfwVu_eiw7O_B/view?usp=drive_link)
God is present; do we notice
