Tag: sabbath
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Sunday Rest – a Commandment ignored by 21st c. christians
Just another Senseless Sunday A Sunday REST? Some will remember the alliterative song, “It’s Just Another Manic Monday.” Now we rush through our senseless Sundays no differently than a ‘manic Monday.’ In that sense, recalling when everything once CLOSED ON SUNDAY, now we long for those Sundays when the supermarket wasn’t overcrowded and our mail…
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Between Sabbaths – Convocations and Holiness
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Leviticus 23:2 KJV Holy Holidays We’ve lost something of the holiness of the holidays in the translation. Worldliness seeps steadily into our daily lives and we…
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Another Sabbath: No Rest
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: Exodus 20:8 Sabbath? So what? We were making plans for Sunday shopping after church, but then we missed church. Some Sundays we hurry out of time-extended gatherings at our church to join the crowds in local restaurants. This week we had no Sabbath and no rest. As…
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Lord of the Sabbath
Dr. Luke retells two stories of witnesses about Jesus and the Sabbath. (We should consider that the Good News is witness of the message of salvation, though the story of Jesus is not always chronological.) The time of these witnessed stories is not so important as the point. Returning (for this) to Luke 6: Jesus…
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Closed on Sunday
“Rest for the wicked; Hope for the weary. Where did that thought come from, I wondered. Could it have anything to do with all of those early mornings and late nights on the internet? (So I looked it up on the internet… didn’t find it… looked for the quote from the Bible… didn’t find it.)…