His opponents thought he never slept. Dr. Wilbur Crafts, one of the founders and early field secretaries of the Lord’s Day Alliance, lectured six days a week, travelled to over 29 countries, wrote a book a year, and spoke before dozens of legislative bodies.

The global Pandemic has given many families a chance to slow down, take stock of what is important, recognize the fragility of life and to ask how they want life to look different going forward. By the grace of God, we have a ready-made way to extend this “pause”: Sunday, the Lord’s Day.

In a few days many of us will celebrate Independence Day through an ordered time of rest, parties, fireworks, and other festivities. It seems that our culture has remembered something that Christians have forgotten: the importance of celebration.

We ministers tend to think about the most unusual things right before stepping into the pulpit to proclaim God’s Word to those who have gathered in the sanctuary on any particular Sunday.

Sabbath is a tricky concept on a dairy farm. The categories of “work” and “rest simply will not obey the demands of cows who need to be milked and fed every single day.

I have a memory as a child when I was five years old. I got a shovel out of our basement and went into the backyard to play. My mother, at the kitchen sink, was looking out the window.

A collection of favorite recipes to share with family and friends at your Sabbath Table

It was Friday afternoon and I was preparing for our Sabbath day.

Lent is a season of remembrance… of the Lord’s fasting in the wilderness, his sufferings, his death for our sake. But it is also a remembrance of our griefs…

Sabbath living may start on Sundays but is not only for Sundays.

Create your Resurrection Garden with family and friends, using the time to reflect with one another about Jesus' sacrifice on the cross and the significance of the empty tomb.

What is the heart?

As we emerge from the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2022, we are still living in a twilight zone of understanding how personally, in our families, in our community and especially in our Sunday worship experience what this long period of isolation, restricted pastoral practice and lack of Sunday congregational sharing have meant.

In October last year, I received an invitation to attend a Fall Symposium jointly sponsored by The John Leland Center for Theological Studies and The Lord’s Day Alliance. I was eager to attend the event…