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On the First Day of the Week: God, the Christian and the Sabbath is unavailable, but you can change that!

In an increasingly secular world, the personal and social benefits of Sabbath-keeping are continually eroding. The church—not just the world—is finding it increasingly difficult to defend the traditional view that the fourth commandment is still binding on us, and that God wants us to honor the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, as a Christian Sabbath. This book examines some of the issues...

matter of Genesis 2:2, namely that God had ceased from his work. The seventh day is mentioned three times (Genesis 2:2, twice; 2:3), each time in a sequence of seven words. In this way, Genesis 2:2–3 combines the creation account of Genesis 1 with a sabbath in a seven-day scheme.3 The account of God’s Sabbath-keeping, therefore, is of a piece with the whole narrative; this is the point to which it has been moving: the point of completion and consummation. So what did God do on the seventh day of
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