The Silence Is Deafening

                  I have used the term....the Lord's Day....at least once a week....for at least a decade in these posts....if not much longer....and as recently as....probably yesterday....so one might tend to think....that I might agree with Charlie Kirk's newly and posthumously published book....(a week ago Tuesday)....Stop, In The Name Of GOD....Why Honoring The Sabbath Will Transform Your Life....but this is a complicated issue.
                   The sabbath can be promoted in a Jewish religious context....or in a psychological and health related context....or a Christian religious context....or in a mixture of all three....which is what this new book does. It's published....(quite handsomely)....by.....Winning Team Publishing....which was founded by Donald Trump Jr and another member of the Trump team.....in 2021.
                    It is not a Christian book. It is more a health and politics and philosophy book. To read it as such would be OK. To read it as a Christian book is problematic. The author is as likely to quote a Jewish rabbi in it....as a Christian minister....and the book itself is dedicated to Jewish/conservative icon Dennis Prager.
                    When I first professed Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior....back in 1982....I for whatever reason....immediately went full steam ahead into Christian apologetics....with authors like C. S. Lewis and Josh McDowell and Frankie Schaffer and Tim LaHaye....and apparently so did this author. Hank Hanegraaff was my....'go to man'....and it appears that Christian apologist Frank Turek was the author's....'go to man'....on many and varied issues of Christian apologetics. The problem in my case was that as beneficial and edifying as much of my study was....I had put the cart before the horse. I talked a good game....I just talked a little too much....a little too soon. Thankfully I had the opportunity to grow out of it....which at times was humbling and difficult.
                    The difference is at the same time....distinct....and subtle....looking at....the Jewish sabbath....and the Christian Lord's Day. I do not feel confident or comfortable in commenting on this intricate theological issue....other than to say that one of the primary reasons for us to meet on the Lord's Day is to hear the Word of God preached from the pulpit....or in a field if necessary....as has been the case in the past....the many glories of the Lord Jesus Christ....and our need of a Savior....with both encouragement and comfort....and warning and mortification....but that is not in this book....thus the silence is a deafening.