Mark Buchanan

“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest…

— Mark Buchanan

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising.…

— Mark Buchanan

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

— Mark Buchanan

“One of the largest obstacles to true Sabbath-keeping is leisure. It is what cultural historian Witold Rybczynski calls “waiting for the weekend,”…

— Mark Buchanan

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend…

— Mark Buchanan

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

— Mark Buchanan

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

— Mark Buchanan

The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and…

— Mark Buchanan

“That's how I read the Bible. There are more than sixty references in Scripture to celebration and all but one or two…

— Mark Buchanan

“There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and…

— Mark Buchanan

Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt…

— Mark Buchanan

“Forgiven people "prove" they're forgiven by walking in newness of life. They walk in the light, walk by faith, walk by the…

— Mark Buchanan

“Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to…

— mark Buchanan

Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

— Mark Buchanan

“Winter's not for adding things but for cutting things. It's the best season, the safest one, actually, to look closely at all…

— Mark Buchanan

Courage encourages courage.

— Mark Buchanan

“Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.”

— Mark Buchanan

“The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It’s a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one…

— Mark Buchanan

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility…

— Mark Buchanan

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God…

— Mark Buchanan

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

— Mark Buchanan

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

— Mark Buchanan

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

— Mark Buchanan

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

— Mark Buchanan

“This is a bitter irony. That a faith based on staggering mysteries –the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Cross and Resurrection, the imparting…

— Mark Buchanan