Worship, Feasting, Rest, Mercy: The Christian Sabbath

“One day a week, we lay aside our tools, wash off the sweat, stop pursuing our agendas, and feast and sing in honor of God.” The world tells us that work is our identity. Career, income, and the toys they let us buy determine our success or failure. But God says otherwise. The Sabbath is his weekly message that the good things we have are his gift. Once a week he invites us to set aside our labor, trust him to provide, and celebrate his faithfulness. In this book, Daniel Howe makes the case that the Christian Sabbath is not about what we’re forbidden from doing. It’s about what we get to do: honor and enjoy God’s gift of rest, and share it with others.

Publisher: Crown & Covenant Publications
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781943017638

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Daniel Howe is the pastor of Christ Reformed Presbyterian Church in Riverside, Rhode Island. He and his wife Esther have five children and live in an old farmhouse on Rhode Island’s East Bay.

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‘I wish I had had this book fifty years ago. Daniel's book brings together all the disparate pieces of understanding I had about the Christian Sabbath (as well as the Old Testament one) into a harmonious whole. The book is a wonderful statement of the freedom the Sabbath gives God’s people from the tyrannies of the hunger for power, the anxieties, and the covetousness of the world that so easily enter our own hearts. The balanced union of worship, rest, feasting, and mercy as parts of living out the Sabbath is very well done. This is a "must-read.” Betty Burger