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Divine Rest for Human Restlessness: A Theological Study of the Good News of the Sabbath for Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can one find inner peace in this restless, tension-filled society? In Divine Rest for Human Restlessness, Samuele Bacchiocchi argues that the values of the biblical Sabbath provide a divine remedy not only to personal stress, but also to marital tension and competitive pressures—even mitigating certain ecological crises. Divine Rest for Human Restlessness is written in a simple devotional...

A second way in which proper Sabbathkeeping brings Christ’s rest to our lives is by enabling us to experience His divine presence. It is Christ’s presence that brought stillness to the stormy lake of Galilee (Matt. 8:23–27) and it is also the assurance of His presence that can bring peace and stillness to troubled lives. This is basically the meaning of the holiness of the Sabbath which is frequently stated in the Bible. We have shown in chapter 3 that the holiness of the Sabbath consists