Why contend with others about the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath? The First Sabbath "Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made." Genesis 2:3 The Old Testament Sabbath was the...
Without delving into details of this year, I want to specifically come to the subject of separation, and to quickly get to the main one that led me to write this post. Many have died from the virus. More have died from heart disease and cancer and most of these...
"Now on the first day of the week ..... they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared." Luke 24:1 Where we go the first day of the week will determine how our whole week will go. Mary came prepared to anoint a dead body. She...
This question should be asked every day. If we have trouble understanding what matters every day, we may want to start with what matters on the first day of the week. What matters to Jesus, the Lord that we follow? What mattered to His first disciples? "Now after the...
Should any day be different from another? Do we need technology to keep us posted and aware of the day, who we are and why we are here? If we read God’s Word ~ how He began with creation and set a pattern for days ~ we have a means of understanding life for us as He...
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; Fear before Him, all the earth. Psalm 96:9 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ https://youtu.be/ciJrPDRYmOY O worship the King all glorious above. O gratefully sing his pow’r and HIs love; Our shield and Defender, the Ancient of Days, Pavilioned in...
The following sermon is the best I have heard on the Fourth Commandment. It was a blessing and stirred in me a renewal of my zeal for the Sabbath. Beginning next week, I will repost articles on this subject from 2011 when I began on WordPress. I pray the Lord's...
On Mondays, I collect our garbage into plastic bags and place them in the provided receptacle (recycles go into a separate container) to be collected early on Tuesday mornings. When we started this schedule years ago, Mondays became a special day for me. It...
Jerry and I have our “senior moments,” sometimes asking, “What’s today?” Since we no longer observe a five-day workweek, we often forget what day it is --- except today. TODAY IS THE DAY THE LORD PLANNED FOR US TO BE WITH HIM; A DAY He set aside to be different from...