As I look to the New Year, two passages of Scripture challenge me to grow and change in the year to come. Both are spoken by Old Testament prophets to the people of Israel, who had become lazy, sloppy, and disobedient in their service of the Lord. "Break up your unplowed ground and ...
This chapter includes scripture and explanations of Sabbath along with the debate of whether or not the Sabbath was only as a covenant between God and the Jews or whether the commandment is for all people or if Jesus' statements alter the commandment. The concept of Sabbath is contrasted with...