Free Family Sabbath Resource – Sabbath Kids!
On this website, you will find many resources to help impart life-long lessons from the Word of God into your children on the Sabbath, such as:
– Videos about Bible Stories
– Online Coloring tools
– Bible-based games
And More!
Just click the link below to access this FREE resource!
I Go, Sir!
By Lenny Cacchio
“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’ He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” (Matthew 21:28-31 NKJV)
Do a study of the kings of the Old Testament, and be by how many began their reigns by honoring God, but then drifted from total commitment to apathy and eventually to complete apostasy.
Even before Israel had a king, God had warned Israel of the dangers of power, money, and women and their corrupting influence upon national leadership (Deuteronomy 17:14 – 17). Too few leaders either then or now have heeded this warning.
Two kings, one an Israelite and one a Gentile, offer an object lesson. The Israelite had all the advantages of a vision and mandate from God, all the wisdom the Holy Spirit could give, peace, wealth, honor, and security. God even talked to him in visions. Yet he turned from God and built high places to Moloch and Chemosh. That was the tragedy of Solomon.
The Gentile king began as a tyrant and a terror to the house of Judah. He conquered and deported the entire nation. He was pompous and powerful, and worshiped the false gods of his fathers. Yet, near the end of his life, after an encounter with the true God, this Gentile king declared, “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.” (Dan 4:37 NKJV)
I once heard a preacher say that it’s not so much how you begin the race, but how you end it. While that might not precisely true (one who runs the race correctly from start to finish has great advantages, it is certainly better to end well than begin well. This we see in Jesus’ parable in Matthew 21. Saying “I go, sir” is not enough; it’s the act of going that counts
Posted 30th June 2016 by Lenny Cacchio
Lenny Cacchio has a blog on the Bible Sabbath Association website. You can follow him at the following weblink: http://biblesabbath.org/index.php?pr=Lenny_Cacchio_Blog
35 Reasons Why I Keep the Bible Sabbath
By Robert Franklin Correia
This book will give you 35 reasons why it is important for us to keep the Sabbath. This book will build your faith and give you confidence in your walk with God. Here is Reason #8, taken from page 17:
God has a flag:
Choice Stories For Children
by Ernest Lloyd
This book contains nearly 40 short stories written during the late 1800s. Every story has an important lesson to build good character. The stories were selected from four out of print books; Scrap Book Stories; Golden Grains vol. 1 and vol. 3 and Lost Jewels.
Stories will convey character traits such as how to avoid temptation and respecting property rights. They are great reads to children and grandchildren!
You can use these stories as a template to come up with more to teach your children.
To order this book, just click the link below:
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THE SEVENTH DAY MEN by Leon J. Lyell
Few modern Sabbath-keepers know anything of the first formulation of the Sabbath doctrine in the modern era. Many will be surprised to learn that it has come directly from the seventeenth century— where, a handful of Englishmen and their congregations “discovered” and observed it. These Sabbath-keepers did not consider themselves to be forming a new denomination; indeed, they did not form a unified group. Rather, they saw themselves as only one step ahead of their brethren. Today, it is possible to uncover the main features of this rediscovery. The story is of real people, from diverse backgrounds, many of whom displayed the same human failings as modern Sabbath-keepers do. This history is a heritage that all Sabbath keepers share.
THE SABBATH UNDER THE KING John Traske: The Truth in Trouble
Soon after the publication of the famous King James Version of the Bible in 1611, an itinerant preacher named John Traske arrived in London. Disgusted by the obvious corruption and indulgence of the clergy of his day, Traske emphasized that God would give his Spirit to those who obey him in the way they live their lives. Traske began advocating fasting, and went on to revive the Old Testament prohibition on unclean meats. In a short time, this gifted preacher had built a significant following of men and women, all seeking to obey God’s commandments. Hamlet Jackson was one such scrupulous student. His studies led him to conclude that there was no Biblical command to observe Sunday, and that the SaturdaySabbath observed by the Jews had never been abolished. Stunned by this discovery, Jackson went immediately to Traske—who was also convinced and began observing the Sabbath, as well as vigorously preaching the “Saturday Sabbath.” Most of Traske’s congregation also adopted it….
(This article is an excerpt from the July-August 2000 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)
To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 13, click this link:
http://biblesabbath.org/tss/484/tss_484.pdf
Augustine’s Sabbath Confessions
by Kelly McDonald, Jr.
Augustine, a Catholic apologist, lived from 354-430 AD. While he was an apologist in the Catholic Church, his letters contain some confessions about the Sabbath. Two letters in particular reveal that most Christian communities in the Mediterranean world actually honored the seventh-day Sabbath.
396 AD – From Augustine to Casulanus
“This question I would wish to see him investigate, and resolve in such a manner as would not involve him in the guilt of openly speaking against the whole Church diffused throughout the world, with the exception of the Roman Christians, and hitherto a few of the Western communities. Is it, I ask, to be endured among the entire Eastern Christian communities, and many of those in the West, that this man should say of so many and so eminent servants of Christ, who on the seventh day of the week refresh themselves soberly and moderately with food, that they are in the flesh, and cannot please God; and that of them it is written, “Let the wicked depart from me, I will not know their way; and that they make their belly their god”, that they prefer Jewish rites to those of the Church, and are sons of the bondwoman; that they are governed not by the righteous law of God, but by their own good pleasure, consulting their own appetites instead of submitting to salutary restraint; also that they are carnal, and savour of death, and other such charges, which if he had uttered against even one servant of God, who would listen to him, who would not be bound to turn away from him?” (Augustine, Letter 36, Chapter 2, Sec. 4)
405 AD – From Augustine to Jerome
“For if we say that it is wrong to fast on the seventh day, we shall condemn not only the Church of Rome, but also many other churches, both neighbouring and more remote, in which the same custom continues to be observed. If, on the other hand, we pronounce it wrong not to fast on the seventh day, how great is our presumption in censuring so many churches in the East, and by far the greater part of the Christian world!” (Aug, Letter 82, 2, 14)
In the 100s and 200s AD, the Roman Catholic Church began to fast on the Sabbath to desecrate the day. They wanted to go contrary to the practice of the seventh day as an enjoyable day. Augustine reminds us that most Christians in the Mediterranean world still rested on the seventh-day and ate festive foods. They refused to fast on the seventh day because it was to be the most enjoyable day of the week.
Kelly McDonald Jr. is president of the BSA. You can visit his website here: kellymcdonaldjr.org
Directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups
Now in its 11th edition, the directory of Sabbath-Observing Groups is available to order!
This directory lists hundreds of Sabbath Keeping churches all over North America. There are seven categories of churches in this directory:
There is a section briefly explaining each one of these groups.
This is a must have document, especially if you will be traveling out of town!
To order, click the link below:
https://biblesabbath.org/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=115&=SID
Tiger And Tom And Other Stories For Boys
By J.E. White
This book is available to order through the Bible Sabbath Association. In it, you will find character-building stories for boys.
Read one of the recommendations of this book:
“I have spent literally $1,000.00’s on educational and character building materials for our son… and none have been as encouraging, nor as influential as your old time stories.”
These stories were compiled from orphanage stories used in the United States many years ago. Fortunately, Godly character does not have a time period attached to it. These timeless stories will encourage boys to choose right from wrong. Read them to your children and even grandchildren!
To order this book, just click the link below:
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How I Came Into the Knowledge of the Sabbath
By Beverly Holiday
The first inkling of Sabbath, which I only knew as Saturday, was introduced by my mother in the mid-1990s. She would make statements such as, “no I can’t shop on Sabbath”. My response was usually: “Saturday is the only day I have off; if you want me to take you shopping, Saturday is the day.” I knew she went to church on Saturday, but she was always a little weird anyway. Nevertheless, seeds were being planted by her example.
A few years later, I began attending a Missionary Baptist Church, and I had acquired an insatiable hunger for the Word of God. I began reading 8-10 hours a day. I was blessed to be able to read while I worked. One day as I was reading in my haphazard fashion, I stumbled upon Ezra and his continued references to mixed marriages. I truly did not want to displease God, so this required further investigation. Reaching way back to my earlier childhood, I remembered Moses had married an Ethiopian wife. I thought to myself: let me go back to the beginning to see what happened with Moses.
Coming from a turmoiled background, the Lord has a tendency to speak into my spirit in a little less conventional fashion than He does others. As I was turning back in the Bible, God spoke into my spirit, “if you’re gonna read a book, why don’t you start at the beginning?” Thus, my quest continued for the Truth of His Word. I found myself having read through the entire Bible in three and one-half months.
I began to ask questions regarding the clean food laws in Leviticus 11 and whether we were so sick because we did NOT keep them. Some had said that we could just pray over food and it was ok to eat – but what was this the truth? The “once saved—always saved” doctrine came into question. I had more questions than answers.
One day in the fall of 1999, I found myself a patron of a quaint little shoe repair shop in Lexington, TN. My mother had instructed me to have non-skid soles placed on her shoes in preparation for her granddaughters (my nieces) wedding. The owner, a kind and direct man I came to know and love was Marvin Ison. He directed our conversation to “What is sin”? My response was: “Anything going against the Book?” I noticed that his Bible was laying on the counter. He replied, “Can you be more specific?” I hesitantly mumbled, “Does it have anything to do with the Ten Commandments?” He exclaimed, “EVERYTHING”.
That well-worn Bible went to splitting open and I learned more in an hour from him than I had learned from studying on my own for the last three and one-half years in the Baptist Church. He invited me to Bible Study the following Friday night and the rest is history.
The TRUTH took me in hook, line and sinker. I continued attending Bible studies and Sabbath services, growing in the knowledge of HIM. For the last years of my mother’s life, we were able to share and celebrate Sabbath and Holy Days together. Thank God for her perseverance and prayers. I continue to hold to these TRUTHS, following that narrow path that leads to His soon coming KINGDOM.
History of the Waldenses
By JA Wylie
This important history book details the history of the Waldensian people (also called the Vaudois). They dwelt in the Piedmont Valley, which is in the Swiss Alps on the border of Italy and France. They were Sabbath keepers who were persecuted because of their faith. They refused to accept the doctrines of Rome. God did amazing miracles to protect these people.
1487 Pope Innocent VIII issued a decree or bull of extermination against these people. An army was organized and sent to destroy them. As they marched up to the Piedmont Valley, a mighty miracle occurred. Here is an excerpt from pages 50-51:
“A White Cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand…was seen to gather on the mountain’s summit, about the time the army would be entering the defile. That cloud grew rapidly bigger and blacker. It began to descend. It came rolling down the mountain’s side, wave on wave, like an ocean tumbling out of heaven – a sea of murky vapor. It fell right into the chasm in which was the papal army, sealing it up, and filling it from top to bottom with a thick, black fog. In a moment the host were in night. They were bewildered, stupefied, and could see neither before nor behind, could neither advance nor retreat. They halted in a state bordering terror. The Waldenses then tore up huge stones and rocks, and sent them thundering down the ravine…The papal soldiers were crushed where they stood….some [of the papal army] were trodden to death; others were rolled over the precipice and crushed on the rocks below or drowned in the torrent, and so perished miserably.”
To read the incredible, full history of these people, order this book by clicking the link below!
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