Dead Sea Scrolls Preserve Lunar Reckoning: Scripture, Qumran, Jubilees, and the Modern Calendar-Reset Theories By Dr. Stephen M.K. Brunswick, ThD, PhD In recent decades, small groups have promoted increasingly radical reconstructions of the Biblical calendar. One theory claims that the Biblical week resets with the lunar month, producing interrupted weekly cycles. Another appeals to the […]
The Biblical Sabbath Week Was Never Reset: Scripture, History, and the Modern Calendar Theories By Dr. Stephen M.K. Brunswick, ThD, PhD The Continuous Biblical Week — Before Getting Lost in Calendar Theories In recent decades, small groups on the internet have begun promoting increasingly complicated theories concerning the Biblical calendar. Some teach that the […]
Saint David of Wales, the Culdees, and the True Meaning of the ‘Lord’s Way’: A Defense of Celtic Sabbath Observance A small expose on the topic covered by Dr Stephen MK Brunswick ThD, PhD “Saturday Rest: the Christian Sabbath in Orthodox Faith”, page 35-36. Lord’s Way, Not Lord’s Day, proven The life and ecclesiastical […]
Wishing you a Happy Scottish remembrance day of Saint Margaret, from the Orthodox Church of the Culdees. Scottish festival held every November 16th, (A Great Time to Witness about The Biblical Saturday Sabbath) Margretmas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland. She arguably accomplished more than any before her to conform the […]
Keeping the Sabbath “Love Feasts” More Fully. Below is a chapter from the book “Sabbath in the Orthodox Church“. While most of the book is about church history, this chapter is more on Pastoral counselling. This book would be incomplete without a section that covers the benefits and practices by which a believer can increase […]
The Culdees’ high holy day celebrations (feasts of YAHWEH) are included in bold, as per the Apostles’ Didascalia Calendar the first month Nisan which begins each year is started by the first visible crescent after the spring equinox. Every Saturday, Orthodox Sabbath is a lectionary sermon held live by the OCC on the website watchman.news. Trumpets […]
In the Homilies of Saint Jerome (a 4th-5th Century theologian) it is demonstrated that in his times, Sabbath observance (Saturday) was wholly expected. Homily 21 on Psalm 92 we read, “The Ninety-first Psalm is inscribe with the title: ‘A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day.’ There could be no Sabbath day without six preceding […]