Do you wish you could pause life and take a deep breath? When life feels overwhelming and too fast paced Come and Rest offers daily invitations to slow down and allow your soul room to breathe. In this refreshing book, Linnea helps us press pause for a moment and refocus our attention on what is eternally important.

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Every now and again, a work will be published by a reformer or puritan that Christians find to be of such great spiritual worth, that it is hard to put into words the incalculable and infinite good that such a work is to the Christian soul. This book, friends, is one of those works. Burroughs expounds Matthew 11:28, “Come unto me all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Christ invites sinners to come to Him for rest. Sinners, in this way, can be either Christians or unbelievers. Both are beckoned to “come.” In this work Burroughs shows first, the burden of sin, the burden of the Law, the burden of legal performances with the misery of those that are under them, the burden of corruption, and the burden of outward affliction. Secondly, he shows that Christ graciously offers to them that come to him, rest from all those burdens. In this he demonstrates what it is to come to Christ; that Christ requires nothing but to come to him. Several Rules to be observed in right coming to Christ, the means to draw souls to Christ, that in coming to Christ God would have us have respect toward ourselves, that there is no rest for souls out of Christ, and the reasons for this, with some conclusions from it. Thirdly, Burroughs shows the rest believers have from sin, that the deliverance from the Law by Christ is, privatively, and positively. He will show the rest believers have from the burden of the Law by coming to Christ, how Christ gives rest from the burden of legal performances, how Christ gives rest from the burden of corruption; in which is shown how sanctification and holiness comes only from Christ. And Burroughs demonstrates encouragements to come to Christ for holiness. He will explain how Christ gives rest from outward afflictions, and then considers some directions on how to get rest from Christ in spiritual desertions. God’s people have been personally helped by Burroughs throughout the centuries by all his works, and in this volume on coming to Christ, he again shows the inestimable spiritual value of his preaching and writing. This is a life-transforming work which will enable Christians to inwardly examine themselves as they consider how the Law of God correlates to their abiding in the Lord Jesus, and what steps they must take to come to Christ in a saving and sanctifying manner. This work is not a scan or facsimile, has been carefully transcribed by hand being made easy to read in modern English, and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.

Pain, specifically the pain of a loss, is an unavoidable fact of life. Some of us have had so much pain that we are overwhelmed by it. The thought of trying to work through the pain, to face the realities of what has happened, may make us feel like shutting down and giving up. However, there is hope. There is a way to work through pain and to come out the other side stronger. In the end we have to make peace with the past in order to continue this life. The poetry collection As the Rest Come to My Heart was made during the most troublesome moments of Joannes Rhinos last 10 years of life, when dark clouds enveloped him. Anger, anxiety, emptiness, guilt and lost love coalesced into a single, unbearable emotion.

Does Jesus Christ make any provision for His children today to not only experience His peace and rest but also to enter into deeper intimacy with Him? Come Rest With Me answers these questions from Scripture, punctuated with real-life anecdotes that explain how Jesus can live His life through ours. The author also interviewed four widows whose husbands were killed by guerrillas. These women tell how real God's rest is in the fiery furnace of trials. "Credible, practical, Biblical, helpful-these words describe this book Come Rest With Me. Bryan's years of missionary service qualify him to say something very important to all Christians. Not to be read in a hurry, this book should be both savored and heeded. In addition to the Bible, this book is a great antidote to life's stress!" Dr. Laura Mae Gardner, former International Vice-President, Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL. "In these pages I have found both encouragement and challenge-encouragement to trust God through whatever difficulties I may face, and a challenge to follow the Lord fully. The true-life examples of the four missionary widows were very helpful. Thank you, Bryan, for bringing your insights to the Christian world." Dr. Ken Royer, Director of Missionary Care, Link Care Center, Fresno, CA. Since Bryan and Del Coupland joined New Tribes Mission, he has held such leadership positions as: missionary trainer, president and teacher at New Tribes Bible Institute, field director of NTM-Panama, executive board member of NTM-USA and NTM-Canada. Prior to becoming a missionary, Bryan was a veterinarian. The Couplands currently reside in Florida. They have three married children and eleven grandchildren. Bryan is available to speak on Christian living at churches, conferences, retreats and colleges.

EVER since I wrote By the Still Waters, while a country pastor, I have longed to write more in the same vein. Friends who say they were blessed by those rustic sketches have encouraged me to write a companion volume, but a city pastorate of five years and many preaching journeys over the land have not provided a suitable setting for rural reflections. One cannot write of these things in a hotel room.It has become possible through circumstances, evidently the Lord's leading, to spend a few autumn weeks in the old home in the hills. No sooner had this opportunity opened before me than I felt impressed to return to my first love and resume the trail of reflections I left in the Carolina lowlands. Then it was the low country, and now it is the hills, but both are Carolina and both are “countrified” and I trust the theme in both cases is common to hearts everywhere.A few of these sketches were published with some changes in the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, and grateful acknowledgement is hereby made for permission to reprint them. But all of them are FOREWORDA skin, and in these simple matters that abide time makes little difference. They are sent forth to the glory of our Lord Who spoke the colorful language of the outdoors and Who bade His disciples of old, “Come ye yourselves apart and rest awhile.”V. H.Greensboro, N. C.