2026-06-27 Weekend Rest Journal
1. Look back at photos from national parks or other scenic spots you have visited. How do they show God’s fingerprints? 2. How can you respond to people who point to evolution as the origin…
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks this invitation to those who are burdened by sin, guilt, and the stresses of this fallen world. Jesus has taken up the cross for you and calls you to follow, so that you might learn from Him. His gentle, lowly way reveals that God’s purposes are not to burden or trouble you, but to give you rest for your soul. Each day He says, “Come to me.”
Daily Rest is a daily devotion book inviting readers to come to Jesus, learn of His gentle and lowly ways, and find rest for their soul. Daily Rest is published quarterly by the Church of the Lutheran Confession with devotions supplied by a volunteer staff of CLC pastors and teachers.

1. Look back at photos from national parks or other scenic spots you have visited. How do they show God’s fingerprints? 2. How can you respond to people who point to evolution as the origin of creation’s beauty and majesty? 3. Find examples in Scripture where Jesus refers to creation and the lessons it teaches.…
1. Look back at photos from national parks or other scenic spots you have visited. How do they show God’s fingerprints? 2. How can you respond to people who point to evolution as the origin…
God’s Fingerprints on National Parks But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to…
God’s Fingerprints on National Parks For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So…
God’s Fingerprints on National Parks The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. Isaiah 35:1-2…
God’s Fingerprints on National Parks O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Psalm 104:24 Imagine what it must have been like…
God’s Fingerprints on National Parks For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Hebrews 3:4 (ESV) Wherever you go, you leave something uniquely you behind: your fingerprints. No…
1. Take a moment to consider what you remember of your father. In every father there is beauty and brokenness. Where was there beauty and goodness? Where was their hurt and brokenness? Journal and pray…
Father Role Models (An angel of the Lord said to Joseph) "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead." And…
Father Role Models And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away…
Father Role Models By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.…