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About Keeping the Sabbath or Not
(Copyright 10-16-2023) by Jeffrey Caldwell (Arkansas) A current article in World Net Dailyhttp://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57978notes: Greg Laurie, a WND columnist and senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., one of the eight largest Protestant churches in America, maintains it’s wrong for Christians to observe Saturday, claiming Jesus and the apostles never taught anyone to keep the Sabbath. He says it’s the only one of the Ten Commandments not specifically repeated in the New Testament. “Of all the New Testament lists of sins, ‘breaking the Sabbath’ is never mentioned,” Laurie said. “That is because it was given to the Jews, not the non-Jews.” Back […]
Are the Sabbath and Holy Days Done Away?
(Copyright 08-13-2025) by Earl L. Henn (Charlotte, North Carolina) For centuries, people have tried to find ways to convince themselves and others that Christians are not required to observe the Sabbath and holy days. A favorite scriptural target in this quest is Colossians 2:16-17. Some teach that a heretical group of Judaizers in the Colossian church was trying to enforce obedience to Jewish practices, such as the laws of clean and unclean meats and the holy days. Under such a scenario, they argue, Paul is telling the Colossians that they did not have to do these things, and further, they had no need to be concerned […]
Did Jesus Break the Sabbath?
(Copyright 08-02-2025) by Rod Reynolds (Wentzville, Missouri) Dear Friends and Brethren, It’s been asserted that Jesus broke the Sabbath, and hence we are free to disregard it as well. But did Jesus break the Sabbath? The basis for the idea that Jesus broke the Sabbath is the accusations made by Jesus’ enemies among the Pharisees and scribes. Because Jesus performed miracles of healing on the Sabbath and did not honor their manmade rules regarding Sabbath observance, the Pharisees accused him of breaking the Sabbath. But did he in fact, break the Sabbath? To many who consider themselves Christians, not to mention those who […]
Why Keep the Sabbath?
(Copyright 07-05-2025) by Rod Reynolds (Wentzville, Missouri) Dear Friends and Brethren, Most professing Christian Churches keep Sunday as their day of worship. Have you ever stopped to ask why? Where in the Bible is Sunday commanded to be kept as a weekly day of rest and worship? If you keep the Sabbath on the day commanded by God for it to be kept, the seventh day of the week, according to the sacred calendar, the way God counts days as recorded in Scripture, has anyone ever asked you why you keep it as noted? Would you be able to give a clear […]
Happy Sabbath
(Copyright 07-03-2025) by Kasuba Manad (Luapula Province, Zambia) MATTHEW 24:20 Dearest Saints of our Master Jesus Christ, Sister Laura Lee and Sister Rebbeca Wise, Warmest Christian greetings to each one of you, your beloved families and all the dear brethren at your Church in the Precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! Myself, my beloved families, the Orphans under my care and all the dear brethren at our Church we greet each one of you with so much Christian love! How are you and your beloved families? It is my sincere hope and prayers that you are all doing well and in good […]
Biblical Teaching of Sabbath Keeping
(Copyright) by Richard Douglas Mauck and Sandra Faye Mauck (Pulaski County, Kentucky) Below, I begin the minimum treatise’s I’ve written to help explain the Sabbath day. Ten teachings, almost 57,000 words, and over a decade of work. How does one summarize that? Here is what you need to know. 1. Time markers in Scripture.2. A day start is sunrise.3. The correct definition of sunrise.4. The correct definition of sunset.5. The correct definition of between the evenings.6. That even/evening is our modern day afternoon.7. What a perfect week is.8. How to count 7 perfect weeks to Shavuot.9. The difference between Passover and the […]
The Sabbath in the New Testament
The Sabbath in the New Testament (Part One)(Copyright) by Ray Daly (Lincoln, North Dakota) In the Mar-Apr 2022 issue of “The Sabbath Sentinel” was an article on the Sabbath. In the article some “26 reasons why we should keep the Sabbath”, were presented by an individual named Daniel Liechly. The information came from the teachings of an individual named Andreas Fischer, from Germany, that lived in the 16th century. For the purpose of this article, I am going to quote from four of those points. #1). “There are Ten Commandments of God which constitute the Covenant. The Sabbath commandment […]
Keep The Sabbathy Sabbath
by Nathaniel Burson (Big Sandy, Texas) If I tell someone to start keeping the Sabbath, their first thought is “but how can I do that, if there are no Sabbath-keeping churches nearby??” It has become thoroughly ingrained in the mind of every Christian that keeping the Sabbath/Sunday holy means going to church. They believe that is the beginning and the end of the intent of God’s commandment on the subject. And yet… it isn’t. Because God never said that. In fact, He never once commanded you to go to church, not in the entire Bible. Think about that! So why did God never command anyone […]
Sabbath-the Very Beginning
(Copyright) by Royce Mitchell, Jr. (Manvel, Texas) “Why aren’t the preachers today telling their people the truth?” I heard blasting from my radio. I was on the way home after finishing my shift as a maintenance electrician at a well-known oil tool products plant when I was forever changed by those words. In my less-than-completely-sober state, I remember shouting back at my radio, “Yeah, buddy! Let them have it!” And, just what was the topic over which the radio personality was lambasting preachers? It was the commandment to keep the Sabbath holy as stated in Exodus 20. To be honest, the beginning of the change in my life […]
Are the Sabbath and Holy Days a Burden?
(Copyright) by Bill Hillebrenner (Matthews, North Carolina) The days mentioned in Galatians 4 have all the trappings of being the Sabbath, new moons, holy days and special years such as seventh year and jubilee. But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I am afraid for you, lest […]
Sabbath Thoughts: Forgiven as We Forgive
by Gary Miller (Pocahontas, Arkansas) “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors…” (Matt. 6:12) FORGIVING TRESPASSES “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you.” (Matt. 6:14,15) WHAT FORGIVENESS REQUIRES:“If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him; and if he Repent, Forgive Him and if he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall Forgive him.” (Lk. 17:3-4) Yahshua put forgiveness in context showing how it […]
The Christian Sabbath
by Catholic Mirror 1893 (Baltimore, Maryland) CATHOLIC MIRROR–BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1893(From page 8 of the Catholic Mirror of Sept. 2, 1893) THE CHRISTIAN SABBATHTHE GENUINE OFFSPRING OF THE UNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIS SPOUSE. THE CLAIMS OF PROTESTANTISM TO ANY PART THEREIN PROVED TO BE GROUNDLESS, SELF-CONTRADICTORY, AND SUICIDAL Our attention has been called to the above subject in the past week by the receipt of a brochure of twenty-one pages, published by the International Religious Liberty Association, entitled,” Appeal and Remonstrance,” embodying resolutions adopted by the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists (February 24th, […]
Delight in the Sabbath
by James McBride (United Kingdom) The weekly Sabbath is for Christians a day in which to delight in God’s presence “Sabbath rest” is a concept far removed from the hurly-burly of modern life. The day is, for most, consumed with a round of strenuous (or couch-potato) leisure activity or shopping or visiting – leaving no time for recovery from the weekly grind. Besides, the notion of a day set apart for religious purpose is simply old hat. But what if you consider Sabbath observance important to your Christian walk? Is it a day to hibernate in gloomy solitude? A day […]