Thursday, January 19, 2006

Good Morning!

 

 

Today's Reading:  Revelation 1:10-11

 

-- Interesting note from Barclay about this being the earliest reference to the Lord's Day in literature, so the switch from Saturday to Sunday as the day of rest happened pretty early in the history of the church.  An interesting language note/question from this -- are we really accurate when we call Sunday the Sabbath?  If you follow Barclay's wording, it seems like the Sabbath has to be Saturday, and that we don't keep Sabbath, we keep the Lord's Day.  You can kind of see where this could go in the idea of the weekend -- TWO days without work - maybe we should be keeping both days.

 

Barclay doesn't really mention it, but there is this idea of being "in the Spirit" on the worship day.  How often are we prepared and focused on worship to be in the Spirit?  And the other thought is that if John was living in a cave on this rocky island above the sea, note that he still was worshipful enough to be in the Spirit, and he still kept Sunday, regardless of his circumstances.

Today's Scripture

By the seventh day God had finished all the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.  And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

 

Genesis 2:2-3

Today's prayer request:     Mother of Cindy Martin

 

Cindy Martin is a former high school classmate of mine, and her mother has cancer and has been undergoing chemo now for about six months or so. She needs prayer to help her keep going during this tough time.

 

Today's class member prayer:

 

Brigitte Severance

 

Have a great day.

Jay