“And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done" -Genesis 2:2 As we consider the events leading up to the death and ...

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Here the Sabbath is directly tied to liberation and justice: “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as your Sovereign God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but ...

I do not consider myself a Bible scholar or authority. I am a Christian, still learning. I find that the Bible contains truth and mysteries. One of the mysteries is the Saturday Sabbath Day. From ...

In the 1980s, when spending extended time in space became a reality, NASA studied how many days you could work in a row at maximum efficiency. They could have just asked God. But instead, their study ...

Find today’s readings here. The holiness of the Sabbath is a fundamental feature of Israel’s religion. The belief that every seventh day belongs to God, and that “resting with God on the seventh day” ...

An anonymous homily of the late 4th century: “Scripture has taken the Sabbath to mean rest . . . . So also the Lord having wrought the consummation, having suffered on Friday and finished his works ...

God designed weekly rest to be holy for all people, not just the economically stable. Everywhere we look we see people pushing themselves—their bodies, their minds, and their capacity for faithfulness ...

Seventh Day Adventists claim that the Sabbath was changed from Saturday to Sunday centuries after the life of Jesus. Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church was the Catholic Church, joins us to ...

Our gospel reading this coming weekend is from the gospel of Mark: One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The ...