Living in Sabbath Rest

As a nineteen-year-old in Florence, the preacher went searching for the Ponte Vecchio only to learn he was already standing on it. That story frames Luke's account of the woman bent over for eighteen years and healed on the Sabbath. Reading Genesis 2 alongside the healing, the sermon contends that in Christ we are already finished, rested, blessed and holy, so Sabbath rest is a gift to receive rather than a place to strive toward.