Sunday, November 03, 2019
Sunday Reflection: Closed on Sunday
This morning at 9:30, I'll be giving the sermon at 1st Covenant Church in Minneapolis. If you can, please come! The text is from the start of Genesis 2:
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
I'm beginning with the video above. It makes the point I start from: that the Sabbath means something, and it should be different than the other days.
But there is a lot more to it. After all, every time Jesus was confronted about the Sabbath, it was because he was breaking the rules to help others. There is something to that-- we usually think about the Sabbath as being about ourselves (self-care), but that's not the whole message from the Gospels.
Yeah, there is a lot more...
