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The Rest of Life: Rest, Play, Eating, Studying, Sex from a Kingdom Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

When was the last time you heard a sermon on the theological importance of play? What do rest, eating, studying—and sex—have to do with the kingdom of God? Strangely, although these activities together take up much of our time, they seldom receive much discussion from a biblical point of view. In The Rest of Life Ben Witherington explores these subjects in the light of biblical teaching about the...

is that out on all the streets around this club people were celebrating, partying, playing their musical instruments, singing, and having a great time. Just to get into the club, we had to plow through various joyful and fun-loving people, young and old, who did not need to pay money to go into a club or into a stadium but could just play and celebrate right there in the street. They were not engaged in “pay to play”; they were just caught up in joie de vivre and were playing right there in the streets
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