The Story Is Ending
The earth and humanity had a beginning and, just like any good story, will have an ending. The Story is Ending is a podcast exploring how the Bible brings history to an end The foundational Bible verse is Revelation 12:11 - "They defeated him through the blood of the Lamb and the bold word of their witness. They weren't in love with themselves; they were willing to die for Christ." The spirit of that one statement is why this ministry exists. There are two elements to this podcast: The "witness" of someone's story and teaching on The Story. I hope you will find my story helpful for you as we start the first few scenes and I invite you to share yours along the way. Please visit TheStoryisEnding.com to read episode details and to share your story.
The Story Is Ending
Series Preview: The Story of the Sabbath
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Mike Hansen
Join me as we take a sneak peek into an upcoming new series, The Story of the Sabbath.
This is a series I have been wanting to do for a long time because, for one, I just don't see anyone else out there doing this work on the importance of the biblical Sabbath, besides in books. Important and very good books that I will draw from for this series.
I'll use the structure of story as I have been talking about to help make this more than a recitation of data. And, some of the topics we'll be looking at through the series:
- Why true worship is the underlying and not-so-subtle theme of the Bible for God’s people
- The origins of the Sabbath
- How its meaning gets carried through the Old Testament
- The Sabbath at the time of Christ (how it got so encrusted)
- What was he pushing back on? (Hint: not the true Sabbath!)
- The Sabbath at the time of the apostolic church (book of Acts, John’s writings)
- After the canon: Why no case was made for the Sabbath while the NT was being written.
- From Sabbath to Sunday: How it changed and why.
- A case for a call back to the biblical Sabbath
- The Sabbath and last day implications: worship and priorties
- The mark of the beast
- Economic pressures for God’s people
- The eternal Sabbath and Sabbath in eternity
- Jesus’ rest and the Sabbath rest — the gospel’s promise
- My own experience with the Sabbath
I'm looking forward to learning together!