Featured Media
The Seventh Day with Hal Holbrook
Sabbath News
Latest Sabbath and Sunday News Items
Shopworkers’ union opposes Belfast City Council Sunday trading plans
10/17/24 - The Christian Institute
Walcha launches seasonal Sunday trading
10/16/24 - New England Tmes
Unions hit out at plan for longer Sunday opening hours
10/14/24 - Luxembourg Times
Your Sabbath Questions Answered
Let's first take a look at the apostle Paul's words in Colossians 2:14-17: "Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ... So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ."
When some read about the sabbath days that were shadows and that passed away at the cross, they think that Paul was referring to the weekly Sabbath, the fourth of the Ten Commandments. Is this accurate? It's important to get this right, because our interpretation of the apostle's actual meaning ...
Some teach that after the law has accomplished its purpose of pointing a sinner to Christ for forgiveness and cleansing, the commandments are no longer needed in the experience of a believer. Is that true?
A Christian will continue to depend upon the "watchdog" of the law to reveal any deviations from the true path of righteousness and to point him or her back to the cleansing cross of Jesus. This mirror of correction will most certainly be needed in the progressive growth experience of the Christian.
Law and grace do not work in competition with one another, but rather they work in perfect cooperation. The law points out our sin, and grace saves from sin. The law ...
Actually, we can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here on Earth - the day He kept every week as the Sabbath. (See Luke 4:16.) The days of the week have never been confused. Here's why some people ask this question ...
Before 1582, the world went by the Julian calendar, named for the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, who implemented it in 46 BC. The Julian calendar had calculated that it takes the earth 365-¼ days to orbit the sun. However, it actually takes about eleven minutes less than that. Those eleven minutes accumulated each year until, by 1582, the calendar was 10 days out of harmony with the solar system.
On October ...
Featured Content
Sabbath Articles
FAQ
Hasn't the calendar been changed?
Advanced Topics
The Sabbath and the Mark of the Beast
Advanced Topics
Weighing the Evidence, which day is the Bible Sabb...
Article Library
How should I honor it?
Arguments Refuted
The Sabbath is Jewish, Sunday is Christian
Arguments Refuted
Early Christians Kept Sunday In Honor Of The Resurrection
FAQ
Wasn't the Sabbath just a reminder of freedom from
The Sabbath Blog
Project 2025: Should Employees Be Paid Overtime fo...
Denominational Statements on the Sabbath
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE
This Fourth is not a commandment for one place, or one time, but for all places and times.
D.L. Moody, at San Francisco, Jan. 1st, 1881.