It's still important to take a day of rest in the midst of it all. The Sabbath is described throughout the Old Testament as a "lasting covenant” - a promise
That is accomplished day to day with prayer in the morning and the evening, week to week with the Sabbath, month to month with the phases of the moon, season to season with planting and harvest, year to year with the New Year, and from age to age with Jubilee years and the ...
Thus the ritual of observing the Sabbath is no longer binding upon Christians. However, Christians still owe a moral duty to worship God (CCC 2176) and therefore do so on the day of the Resurrection. This is a Christian practice that dates back to the original apostles (see Acts 20:7)....
The worship team I’m blessed to be part of at my church has a few keywords we toss around when we’re choosing songs, and “singability” is one of them. If a song is not singable for the average person on the average Sunday morning, it doesn’t matter how popular it is on th...
(Song of Songs) is read on the sabbath ofPassoverweek, theBook of RuthonShavuot,Lamentations of JeremiahonTisha be-Av,Ecclesiasteson the sabbath of the week ofSukkoth, and theBook of EstheronPurim. The reading ofEstheronPurimis prescribed in theMishna; other readings were introduced in post...
Almost unknown to most Christian literature is the name of Andreas Rudolph B. Carlstadt, the great apostle of the seventh day Sabbath. He was born in Carlstadt, Bavaria, in 1480 and died in Basel, Switzerland, on December 25, 1541, at the age of 61 years. Carlstadt was a personal f...
Withered hands – The Synoptics state that Jesus entered a synagogue on Sabbath, and found a man with a withered hand there, whom Jesus healed, having first challenged the people present to decide what was lawful for Sabbath – to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill. The ...
Our understanding of the world around us, and our abilities to predict what will happen are based on naturalism — the basis of science. Naturalism is also the basis for how all people live their lives most of the time. To be explicit, modern science relies on methodological naturalism. Th...
Posted onDecember 31, 2023whyevolutionistrue December 31, 2023 • 6:45 am Welcome to the last day of the year: Sunday, December 31, 2023, and, for crying out loud,National Vinegar Day. It has been an acidic year, hasn’t it? It’s still Coynezaa, though. I was born at 11:15...
The present custom of a five-day work week plus a two-day weekend is a recent invention. The Sabbath (Saturday if you’re Jewish, Sunday if you’re Christian) was the only traditional day of leisure from the time of Creation (when, of course, God rested) until the mid-1930s. A “...