208: Living From Rest – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 3)

208: Living From Rest – Become Good Soil Foundations Series (Part 3)

From Become Good Soil by Morgan Snyder

March 10, 2026 · 1h 9m

About this episode

The episode explores the significance of Sabbath as a practice of receiving God's gifts and its implications for living a life of overflow.

“Recovering Sabbath is an alternative to a culture ruled by an endless cycle of consumption, production, and progress. It is an awareness and practice of the claim that we are situated on the receiving end of the gifts of God. To be so situated is a staggering option, because we are accustomed to being on the initiating end of all things. We neither expect nor, at times, even want a gift to be given, so consumed are we with accomplishing and possessing. Thus, I have come to think of the Sabbath as the most difficult and the most urgent of the commandments in our society.” —Walter Brueggeman How regularly do you find yourself showing up in your life from a place of overflow, having been saturated in the reservoir of Sabbath overflow? If you were to describe your evolving relationship with rest over your life in all its stages in seasons, how would your life speak to you? What if the timeless invitation to live from Sabbath—and to cultivate practices every day, every seven days, every seven years, and every seven-times-seven years—isn’t merely an external activity, but a way of participating with God to relearn a way of kingdom living? What if there is a hidden secret that unlocks…

People in this episode

Host: Morgan Snyder

Topics covered

  • Sabbath
  • rest
  • spirituality
  • kingdom living
  • Christianity

Keywords

  • Sabbath
  • rest
  • spirituality
  • kingdom living
  • Christianity
  • Walter Brueggeman
  • overflow

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