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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...

and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.… For I am the LORD, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.… Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you …” (Isa. 43:1, 2a, 3a, 4a) Within the context of Yahweh’s promises to rescue his people from their captivity and bring the exiles back to their home, this passage focuses on God’s overt declarations of what makes his people worthy. Over and over the text insists that Yahweh is the one who makes
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