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Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting is unavailable, but you can change that!

“But I don’t wanna go to church!” Marva Dawn has often heard that cry—and not only from children. “What a sad commentary it is on North American spirituality,” she writes, “that the delight of ‘keeping the Sabbath day’ has degenerated into the routine and drudgery—even the downright oppressiveness—of ‘going to church.’ ” According to Dawn, the phrase “going to church” both reveals and promotes...

We start with the importance of ceasing on a day set apart as holy because the name Sabbath comes originally from the Hebrew verb shabbat, which means primarily “to cease or desist.” In Exodus 31:16–17 we are told that “the Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant” because it is “a sign between me [the LORD]1 and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work
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