A lot of people see the Lord’s Day as an infringement of their personal liberty—a day that is taken away from them… On the Lord’s Day we rest from our normal activities for the purpose of catching our physical, emotional, and spiritual breath – free from the ordinary demands of work—we worship our extraordinary God – Isaiah 58:13-14… God gives us the prescription for finding rest in this restless world—a Day off!
‘Our culture is nothing if not over-busy and stressed-out. You don’t have to look very hard to discover that our society’s relationship to time is a complete mess. The most rudimentary teaching from the Scriptures on how human beings should relate to time (and to God) is called the Sabbath… (The) Sabbath isn’t the cessation of work, so much as it is the cessation of restlessness. For one day a week we stop our ceaseless working, generating, producing, consuming, worrying, hurrying, and so on, in order to just enjoy the day (and our God).’
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
