Observing the Sabbath: What the Sabbath means to meSusan Williams
The Sabbath is the seventh-day of the week according to the Bible. That is Saturday. Do Christians still need to keep it?
The Jewish tradition aims to create a community of free and holy people. The author stresses that a renewed sense of Sabbath is most needed by Christians who are experiencing burnout and exhaustion from the pressures of work and consumerism.Reid...
in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest. The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work. In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a pr...
Observing the Sabbath is rooted in the balance between rest and worship, in line with Jesus’s teaching that highlights the Sabbath’s purpose of serving human well-being and spiritual freedom. When God “rested on the seventh day from all his work which He had done (Genesis 2:2), He wa...
The Sabbath is observed as a day of rest and worship, a time for spiritual renewal, communal worship, and a break from the regular routines of work.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”Berean Literal BibleAnd the Pharisees, having seen, said to Him, "Behold, Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on Sabbath."King James BibleBut when the...
And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Is the Sabbath Saturday or Sunday? Is the Sabbath important today? Was the Sabbath really nailed to the cross? Can we choose any day for the Sabbath? Who tried to change the Sabbath and why? Whom should I believe on the matter of the Sabbath?
There is much literature on the origins and definitions of slavery in both ancient and modern slave systems. As we have noted in the introductory chapter: 1) in the case of the ancient Near East, such theories oen depend on the particular economic or political ideology assumed by the ...