{"id":3874,"date":"2012-11-20T17:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2012-11-20T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:45:25","slug":"resources-for-the-restless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/resources-for-the-restless\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for the Restless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/NOV_18_2012.php\">From Restlessness to Contentment<\/a>,&#8221; Ryan preached from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvbible.org\/search\/psalm+130-131\/\">Psalms 130-131<\/a>. Together, these\u00c2\u00a0two psalms that take us from crying to calm, from restlessness to rest, and from pride to trust. These are timely psalms for an age of busyness, noise, and self-promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few resources on this psalm, the theme of contentment, and preaching God&#8217;s Word to ourselves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccef.org\/peace-be-still-learning-psalm-131-heart-0\">&#8216;Peace, be still&#8217;: Learning Psalm 131 by Heart<\/a>,&#8221; David Powlison<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/redeemercitytocity.com\/blog\/view.jsp?Blog_param=163\">Contentment<\/a>,&#8221; Timothy Keller<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoyinggodministries.com\/article\/forgiveness-the-foundation-for-fear-psalm-1303-4\/\">Forgiveness: the Foundation for Fear (Psalm 130:3-4)<\/a>,&#8221; Sam Storms<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/MAR_04_2012.php\">How to Really Talk to Yourself<\/a>,&#8221; Ryan Kelly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ryan quoted part of Powlison&#8217;s article that is worth including here. In what he calls an, &#8220;anti-Psalm 131,&#8221; Powlison clarifies the meaning of Psalm 131:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My heart is proud (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m absorbed in myself),<br \/>\nand my eyes are haughty (I look down on other people),<br \/>\nand I chase after things too great and too difficult for me.<br \/>\nSo of course I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m noisy and restless inside, it comes naturally,<br \/>\nlike a hungry infant fussing on his mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap,<br \/>\nlike a hungry infant, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m restless with my demands and worries.<br \/>\nI scatter my hopes onto anything and everybody all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s sermon, &#8220;From Restlessness to Contentment,&#8221; Ryan preached from Psalms 130-131. Together, these\u00c2\u00a0two psalms that take us&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/resources-for-the-restless\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3878,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}