2024-06-08 Weekend Rest Journal
In Lev 23:3 God confirms what He had stated in the 2nd Commandment: keep the Sabbath Day (or “Day of Rest”) holy! (i.e., Don’t work your job or do chores, focus rather on God’s Word.)… 2024-06-08 Weekend Rest Journal
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.

All Saints And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted,… 2025-11-06 The Trials of the Saints
In Lev 23:3 God confirms what He had stated in the 2nd Commandment: keep the Sabbath Day (or “Day of Rest”) holy! (i.e., Don’t work your job or do chores, focus rather on God’s Word.)… 2024-06-08 Weekend Rest Journal
Old Testament Festivals Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord… You shall dwell in booths for… 2024-06-07 The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)
Old Testament Festivals And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days… 2024-06-06 The Feast of Weeks
Old Testament Festivals Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of… 2024-06-05 The Feast of Firstfruits
Old Testament Festivals Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made… 2024-06-04 The Day of Atonement
Old Testament Festivals On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD;… 2024-06-03 The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
1. Memorize one of these texts that shows the nature of God and look for opportunities to make it known to friends, acquaintances and family. Give thanks to God for every opportunity. 2. In Baptism… 2024-06-01 Weekend Rest Journal
Holy Trinity God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. Job 37:5 ESV One God in three persons. This truth troubles some people. The cults misrepresent the teaching of… 2024-05-31 The Incomprehensible One
Holy Trinity And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming… 2024-05-30 Put One and One and One Together
Holy Trinity The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV It’s sometimes referred to as the… 2024-05-29 The Apostolic Benediction