The place of obedience in the Christian life

• Obeying God
• Six reasons to obey God
• Role of the law in Christian life
• Role of the Decalogue in Christian ethics
• Are Old Testament laws still binding on Christians?
• What is the law of God for Christians today?
• What law Is “done away” and what “law” do Christians keep?
• Jesus and Laws

The old and new covenants

• Covenant, law and God’s faithfulness
• Covenants in the Bible
• The Old Covenant and the Law of Moses
• The New Covenant in a Nutshell
• Can Old Covenant Worship Laws Become New Covenant Spiritual “Shadows”?
• Comparison of Old and New Covenants
• Has the New Covenant Been Made?
• The New Covenant Is Older Than You Think

What about the Sabbath?

• Is the Sabbath required for Christians today? (summary questions and answers)
• Study paper on the Sabbath:
  • Part 1:What do the Scriptures say about the Sabbath?
  • Part 2:The Sabbath in the Writings and the Prophets
  • Part 3: Jesus and the Sabbath
  • Part 4: Paul and the Sabbath
  • Part 5: Hebrews 4:9 and other questions
• Genesis 2:2-3—God’s “rest” and the Sabbath
• Is Leviticus 23:3 a command to have worship services on the weekly Sabbath?
• Jesus kept the Sabbath. Shouldn’t we follow his example?
• Does Mark 2:27 command Christians to observe the weekly Sabbath
  • Was the Sabbath made for all human beings? (Mark 2:27) (short version)
• Is the Sabbath a moral law or a ceremonial law?
• Why pray not to flee on the Sabbath? (Matthew 24:20)
• Does Hebrews 4:9 command us to keep the Sabbath?
• The Christian Sabbath (booklet):
  • Chapter 1: The law and the promise
  • Chapter 2: The law and the spirit
  • Chapter 3: Entering God’s rest
  • Chapter 4: The object of worship
  • Chapter 5: New wineskins
  • For a Spanish (PDF) version of this booklet, click here
• A response to “Why the Seventh Day?”
• Another letter to an Adventist
• Is there a Sabbath “principle” for Christians to keep?
• Can God’s Sabbath law be “done away”?
• What about the Ten Commandments and “the Law”?
• The covenants and the Sabbath: the biblical evidence
• The new covenant and the Sabbath
• A sign forever

What about worship on Sunday?

• From Sunday to Sabbath: the Puritan origins of Sabbatarianism
  • List of 17th-century English seventh-day churches
• Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity
• The origins of Sunday worship in the early church
• Should we meet on Sundays?

Should Christians keep the annual festivals God gave Israel?

• What Scripture says about the annual festivals
• Bible study on the festivals
• What the festivals picture (short article)
• Typology of the Israelite annual festivals (long article)
• Trumpets: a festival fulfilled in Christ
• Harvest seasons of ancient Israel
• Does Zechariah 14 command Christians to keep the festivals?
• Imagery of the Feast of Tabernacles in the Gospels

Articles about other laws

• Circumcision: a test case for examining Old Testament laws
• Are some meats unclean? A look at the Old Testament concept of uncleanness
• Is tithing required under the new covenant?

A series of Bible studies about Old Testament laws

• Introduction to series
• Christians Obey God
• Old Testament Laws Before Moses
• Moses and the Old Covenant
• Jesus and the New Covenant
• The Early Church and the Law of Moses
• Paul and the Old Covenant
• A Few Examples of Obsolete Laws
• Seven Annual Sabbaths
• Dietary Laws and Uncleanness
• Jesus and the Old Covenant Laws
• The Weekly Sabbath — Jesus’ Example
• The Sabbath in Acts and the Epistles
• New Covenant Commands
• Salvation by Grace

BOOK

Sabbath, Circumcision, and Tithing: Which Old Testament Laws Apply to Christians?

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The strange variety of Old Testament laws
• Chapter 2. Does God make mistakes?
• Chapter 3. Circumcision: a new way to keep an old law
• Chapter 4. The eternal validity of God’s law
• Chapter 5. A Christian council about Old Testament laws – a study of Acts 15
• Chapter 6. The biblical explanation: The new covenant makes some biblical laws obsolete
• Chapter 7. Hebrews and the change in covenants – a study of Hebrews 7-10
• Chapter 8. “The law is holy, just and good” – a study of Matthew 5
• Chapter 9. Was the Sabbath commanded at creation?
• Chapter 10. The Sabbath and the Ten Commandments
• Chapter 11. The prophets and the Sabbath
• Chapter 12. Jesus and the Sabbath: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
• Chapter 13. Example of the apostles
• Chapter 14. Paul and the Sabbath – a study of Col. 2, Rom. 14, and Eph. 2
• Chapter 15. A better way to rest – a study of Hebrews 3-4 – and miscellaneous questions
• Chapter 16. Sabbath and Sunday in the early church
• Chapter 17. The role of the Ten Commandments in Christian life – a study of 2 Cor. 3
• Chapter 18. Mildew, meats, and cleanliness
• Chapter 19. Annual festivals
• Chapter 20. Tithing – including a study of 1 Cor. 9
• Chapter 21. Behavioral expectations in the new covenant
• Appendix 1: Brief answers for questions about the Sabbath
• Appendix 2: For further reading