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I think that it can be argued that the Fourth Commandment is the most-ignored among the ten, even among Christians. Or should I say especial...

In Leviticus 23, God reveals to Moses the holy festivals that He has given to Israel for His worship. He introduces these festivals with a r...

" Thus, the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day, God finished His work that He had do...

When I discuss the Sabbath with antisabbatarians, one of their frequent responses is to claim that the Sabbath was created by the Fourth Com...

In almost every discussion of the abiding nature of the Christian Sabbath, my experience has been that the anti-Sabbatarian will refer to Co...

I want to relate two passages of Scripture here.  The first is Genesis 2:1-3: " Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all t...

I often find myself in the middle between two camps regarding the Christian and the Sabbath. On one side, I have the Seventh-Day Adventists,...

Noah and the Ark A major argument used by anti-sabbatarians to support their claim that the Sabbath was a Jewish ceremony and not for Christ...

Anti-Sabbatarians often argue that the Sabbath was part of the Mosaic ceremonial law, and was, therefore, abrogated by the incarnation, aton...

In my dealings with anti-sabbatarians, i. e., those who claim that there is no Christian Sabbath, they almost always bring up Colossians 2:1...

In discussions about the Sabbath, I often get challenged by people, often from dispensationalist backgrounds, who claim that the Sabbath w...

" Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath ...

As a history book, comparable to Samuel and Kings in the Old Testament, the Acts of the Apostles is not a good place to base ones doctrine....

In Matthew 24:20, we have a very interesting statement by Jesus: " Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath ."...

A common objection that I hear to the Fourth Commandment is that "Jesus is our Sabbath." It's a slogan, not something the spea...

I have dealt with the Sabbath in three different ways in past posts. One was its continuing validity under the New Covenant. The Second wa...

When talking about the importance of the Sabbath, I have noticed that most Christians will make a dismissive remark about its being ceremo...

When I defend the confessional (and scriptural) view of the Sabbath, one of the most-common arguments I get is, "Jesus is our Sabbath...

" Since therefore it remains for some to enter it...,  there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God...

Jesus made a curious statement as part of His Olivet discourse: " Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath " (Ma...