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Embracing European Sundays: A Time For Rest, Relaxation, And Reset

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Oslo Leaders Push for Wider Sunday Trading

02/29/24  -  Life in Norway

Oslo City Council will seek permission from the State Administrator to allow shops to open on Sundays.

02/28/24  -  The Local

Your Sabbath Questions Answered

Doesn't 1 Corinthians 16 prove the Sabbath was changed?
In 1 Corinthians 16:1-3, the apostle Paul writes,

"Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also: On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come. And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem."

In this passage, the apostle was writing a special appeal to the churches in Asia Minor. Famine conditions were not unusual in areas of the Middle East (see Acts 11:28-30), and at the time, many of the Christians in Jerusalem were suffering greatly. Paul asked the ...
Hasn't the calendar been changed?
Actually, we can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here on Earth - the day He kept every week as the Sabbath. (See Luke 4:16.) The days of the week have never been confused. Here's why some people ask this question ...

Before 1582, the world went by the Julian calendar, named for the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, who implemented it in 46 BC. The Julian calendar had calculated that it takes the earth 365-¼ days to orbit the sun. However, it actually takes about eleven minutes less than that. Those eleven minutes accumulated each year until, by 1582, the calendar was 10 days out of harmony with the solar system.

On October ...
Doesn’t Hebrews 4 mean Jesus is our Sabbath rest?
Some teach that Hebrews 4 defines the seventh-day Sabbath commandment in the Decalogue as a shadow-type law pointing forward to a spiritual rest in Christ. They view the Sabbath in the same way the Old Testament sacrifices pointed forward to Christ's atoning death on the cross. They teach that once we have found "spiritual rest" in Christ, we no longer need to observe the Sabbath day, and that keeping the seventh day is a form of bondage and an act of personal works.

It is true that the primary message of Hebrews 4 is to emphasize the believer's rest of grace. The main point in Hebrews 3:7-4:11 ...

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Is it necessary to go to church on the Sabbath?
Doesn't 1 Corinthians 16 prove the Sabbath was changed?
What Are Blue Laws?
What about the Lord's Day?
Does Acts 20:7 really offer proof that the apostles changed the Sabbath day to Sunday?
That we should love God supremely and love our neighbor as ourselves is certainly not in dispute. However, the question is, how do we show this love to God and to our neighbor?
What other denominations say about the Sabbath
Sabbath-Keeping Christians in Ghana Face Voting Challenges
Denominal Statements on the Sabbath

Denominational Statements on the Sabbath

LUTHERAN
For up to this day mankind has absolutely trifled with the original and most special revelation of the Holy God, the ten words written upon the tables of the Law from Sinai.
Crown Theological Library, page I78.