Making Life Work

By: Ronald L. Dart

    Just what does it mean to "keep the Sabbath?" What should a person do on that day? Or, as some would prefer to ask, what should a person NOT do? Can you work at your normal job? What about emergencies? Can you buy groceries on the Sabbath? What if you have unexpected guests? The Sabbath is indeed a holy day, and to worship God properly requires a right view of His day.

By: Lenny Cacchio

It can seem like a boring, pointless section of Scripture, this Nehemiah Chapter 3, but it’s there for a reason.  It contains name after name of those who built the walls of the city of Jerusalem, describing each one’s section of the wall and what they did. Reading this passage might at first seem like a treatment for insomnia, but read it closely, and it is clear that in writing it, Nehemiah had a purpose.  Evidently, he wanted to record for posterity the names of those who sacrificed for the good of the city.  Saying thank you is always in order, and especially so when an important undertaking is accomplished.  And make no mistake.  Building the walls of a city was incredibly important.  In those days the walls provided protection...

By: Lenny Cacchio

The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. (Ezekiel 22:29-30 NKJV)

Then said I, Here am I; send me. (Isaiah 6:8)

In a recent sermon a reference was made to Ezekiel 22:29-30, followed by the lamentation that in our land today there is no one standing in the gap, no one to repair the walls of morality. It’s a point well-taken, and it should have been a point of challenge for the thousand people who heard it. Would they be willing to stand in the gap, or were they...