Making the Most of Your Sabbath Day
By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms : Mercy and Necessity and the Spiritual Blessing of Getting Ready to Meet With Jesus Good Morning, For our last look at the section titled On the Sanctification of the Lord’s Day in the Directory of Public Worship we are going to talk a little bit more about getting ready for worship and also what keeping the Fourth Commandment looks like on the Sabbath outside of the morning and evening worship services. We are all pretty good at being there at 11am, but as we have noted elsewhere the Lord’s Day consists of more time than that hour. A lot of what is at stake here is how the whole of the Sunday is a preparatory mercy to ensure that our worship is well-attended and well-strengthened for the benefit of our soul and body. Christians consistently underrate what worship is for and why God has called us to praise and prayer and to the preaching. The more we comprehend its purpose the more we will gladly take on the whole of th...
