On the Links

• Free e-newsletter for pastors
  This e-newsletter has links to free sermons, helpful articles, and info on the latest pastoral resources.
• Hillsong United Live: We’re All In This Together
  On Wednesday, November 4, Hillsong United will appear on movie screens across the U.S. for a live performance from Sydney followed by the worldwide debut of their documentary about justice, compassion, and mercy around the globe. Learn more on this site.
• Michael Hyatt’s blog
  Michael Hyatt serves as the COO of Thomas Nelson publishers. He writes regularly on topics of interest to Christian leaders.
• City of Refuge
  First Baptist Church of Woodstock hosts this ministry to help hurting and wounded ministers.
• Happy marriages connected to a thriving workplace
  American workplaces lose nearly $6 billion from workers’ relationship and marriage problems.

Book Look

• Fearless
  Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson, 2009)Fear is all over today’s headlines. You can’t turn on a television these days without getting bad news.  But what if faith, not fear, was our default reaction to perceived threats? In this book, Max Lucado invites readers to accept Jesus’ invitation to courage. Each chapter tackles a common fear from a biblical perspective to help readers stand strong in faith.

Saddleback Sayings

• “You are the sum total of your habits. You’ve got good ones and you’ve got bad ones, but the things you habitually do are the things that make you. The key to spiritual growth is developing good habits.”– Rick Warren

Bible Bytes

• “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work […].’”
  
  – Exodus 20:8-10 (NIV)
• “Jesus said to them, ‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.’”
  
  – Mark 2:27 (NASB)

Notes & Quotes

• “What is without periods of rest will not endure.” – Ovid

• The average American worker goes to bed at 10:53 p.m. and sleeps for 6 hours and 40 minutes on workdays. (Source: 2008 Sleep, Performance and the Workplace Survey, National Sleep Foundation)

• “The Sabbath is a day to let go of perfectionism and let God run the universe. On that day I will do my best to stop working, let God worry about what I’m not doing right and rest in the joy of knowing him.” – Lynne Baab, Sabbath Keeping: Finding Peace in the Rythms of Rest (InterVarsity Press, 2005)

• “You can never plan the future by the past.” – Edmund Burke

• “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” – Doug Larson