Celebrating the Lord's Day
(the Christian Sabbath)

This page contains links to materials about our approach to keeping the Lord's Day.
This material was presented at the 2004 Summer Conference of the Sword of the Spirit--North American Region.

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Link to "Celebrating the Lord's Day"
Celebrating the Lord's Day is a booklet that gives an introduction to celebrating the Lord's Day, offers suggestions for holding a festive meal, talks about how Jesus would have celebrated the Sabbath meal, and contains a ceremony for marking the beginning and the end of the Lord's Day. In some browsers you can simply "left-click" on the link above and the file will open automatically; in other browsers you need to "right-click" on the link above and then select "open" or "save." Note: This is an Adobe Acrobat document (a "pdf" file) and requires the Acrobat Reader. Fortunately, most computers today come with the Acrobat Reader installed. If your computer does not have this program, you can go to www.adobe.com and click on the link to download Acrobat Reader. Downloading the Acrobat Reader is free.

Link to Outline and Materials for Talk 1--Keeping the Lord's Day
This document contains the outline, scripture passages, and study materials for the first of two talks on the Lord's Day given by Steve Clark at the 2004 North American Region's Summer Conference. This talk provides a scriptural introduction to the Old Testament practice of keeping the Sabbath and the New Testament observance of the Lord's Day. This document contains a the outline itself, scripture passages used in the talk, a page discussing the early Christian observance of the Lord's Day,  our ecumenical decisions relating to the Lord's Day, and an interesting study on the concept of "work." In some browsers you can simply "left-click" on the link above and the file will open automatically; in other browsers you need to "right-click" on the link above and then select "open" or "save." Note: This is an Adobe Acrobat document (a "pdf" file) and requires the Acrobat Reader. Fortunately, most computers today come with the Acrobat Reader installed. If your computer does not have this program, you can go to www.adobe.com and click on the link to download Acrobat Reader. Downloading the Acrobat Reader is free.

Link to Audio File of Talk 1--Keeping the Lord's Day
This link takes you to an audio file of Steve Clark's first talk in this series of two talks presented at the 2004 North American Region's Summer Conference. This talk provides a scriptural introduction to the Old Testament practice of keeping the Sabbath and the New Testament observance of the Lord's Day. Note: This is a Microsoft Wave (a "wav" file) file. Most newer browsers will recognize wave files and play them through your computer speakers. Some browsers will start playing the talk right away, others will want to download the file to your computer first. This is a good-sized file (about 10 megabytes) and will take up to half hour to download over a 56K modem--high speed connections will download the file much faster.

Link to Outline for Talk 2--Celebrating the Lord's Day
This document contains the outline for the second of two talks on the Lord's Day given by Steve Clark at the 2004 North American Region's Summer Conference. This talk focus on celebrating the Lord's Day and the ceremony we use in our communities to mark the beginning and the ending of each Lord's Day. In some browsers you can simply "left-click" on the link above and the file will open automatically; in other browsers you need to "right-click" on the link above and then select "open" or "save." Note: This is an Adobe Acrobat document (a "pdf" file) and requires the Acrobat Reader. Fortunately, most computers today come with the Acrobat Reader installed. If your computer does not have this program, you can go to www.adobe.com and click on the link to download Acrobat Reader. Downloading the Acrobat Reader is free.

Link to Audio File of Talk 2--Celebrating the Lord's Day
This link takes you to an audio file of Steve Clark's second talk in this series of two talks presented at the 2004 North American Region's Summer Conference. This talk focus on celebrating the Lord's Day and the ceremony we use in our communities to mark the beginning and the ending of each Lord's Day. Note: This is a Microsoft Wave (a "wav" file) file. Most newer browsers will recognize wave files and play them through your computer speakers. Some browsers will start playing the talk right away, others will want to download the file to your computer first. This is a good-sized file (about 11 megabytes) and will take up to half hour to download over a 56K modem--high speed connections will download the file much faster.

Link to Tabor House Catalogue
Follow this link to our on-line book store, Tabor House. Two books will be of special interest for people who want to celebrate the Lord's Day. Prayers for the Lord's Day is a booklet of prayers for the Lord's Day celebration. Family Worship is a book of prayers and other helps for family worship. This book includes the prayers for the Lord's Day celebration.