Lord’s Day Alliance: Insights from a Sabbath Scholar
Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph.D., was associate professor of church history, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
A major reason for the existence of my church is to lead men and women into a deeper relation ship with the Saviour through rediscovery of the meaning and blessings of Sabbathkeeping. Though we here today may differ on the day on […]
Lord’s Day Alliance: Promoting Sunday Observance in Canada
The Lord’s Day Alliance (formerly known as the American Sabbath Union) is an ecumenical Christian first-day Sabbatarian organization,[1] based in the United States and Canada that was founded in 1888 by mainstream Christian denominations.[2] These Churches worked together to found the Lord’s Day Alliance in order to effect change in the public sphere, most notably with respect to “lobbying for the passage of Sunday-rest laws.”[2] The Lord’s […]
National Sunday Law: A Partial History and Its Prophetic Significance
The history of Sunday legislation in the United States shows a mass of contrary, inconsistent, and illogical cases and distinctions. The following instances help to prove this:
In State of Nebraska v. Tim O’Rourke, 35 Nebr. 614, 1892, an indictment for playing baseball on Sunday, the court said:
“No trial can be had on Sunday. The only trials […]
The Great Commission: Sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom
“Righteousness will go before Him, and shall make His footsteps our pathway” (Psalm 85:13, NKJV).
Revelation contains the heartbeat of the Seventh-day Adventist message. The three angels’ messages of Revelation 14 followed by the final fourth angel’s message of Revelation 18 direct us to our unique call as Adventists, to proclaim the everlasting gospel to those […]
God’s Love: Understanding His Character of Mercy and Justice
True love is not merely a sentiment or an emotion. It is a living principle, a principle that is manifest in action. True love, wherever it exists, will control the life. Thus it is with the love of God. “God is love;” and in all His works, in all His dealings with mankind, His character […]
New Earth: The Promise Beyond Christ’s Second Coming
When we look at the current and evolving global human turmoil that exists in politics, environment and finances we wonder and most probably share a mutual concern. Where is this all going? How it will all end? Catastrophic? One world government? Is there hope for our children? the human race?
The answer can lie within the […]