(Originally written for The Baldwin Bulletin: Pastor's Column September 28, 2022) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Exodus 20:8-11) A non-pastor friend and I were talking last week about the Bible’s concept of Sabbath and Sunday observance. He pointed out the following idea: If we live an average lifespan—77 years according to the National Center for Health Statistics (2020), we’ll have lived 674,200 hours. If our time with God and his people is 1 hour a week, then over the course of our lifetime, we’ll have spent 4,004 hou
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