In the first centuries, Sunday, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest (based on the Jewish Shabbat, because the earliest Christians were all Jews) was still observed by "almost al...
A young woman full of faith in G-d, she always prayed quietly in the morning, said blessings over her food and kept the Sabbath, refusing outright to do any work or cook for her captors on that day. She was a silent support to the other captives, always maintaining her calm and comp...
I grew up as a Jew and probably one of the most unforgettable things I heard in Sabbath School was that…one day…Jews…would rule the world. Whether it was called the ‘Messianic Age’ … or a ‘Time of World Peace’ … it all boiled down to the very same thing: Gentiles would be...
(Sunday morning or Saturday night) was practiced alongside observance of seventh-day Sabbath rest and was a widespread Christian tradition by the 2nd century, attested in patristic writings of the 2nd century; over time, Sunday thus came to be known as Lord's Day. These early Christians ...