Jim Osman (Kootenal Church)

🧩 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Simon Pranaitis, Pastor | September 20, 2026 | Worship Service Description: Genesis 6-9 records the first covenant in Scripture — God's covenant with Noah, his descendants, and all creation. In this message we examine the three promises embedded in that covenant: God's promise to rescue His creation by grace, to sustain it by His patience, and to protect it by His oath. The sermon works through all three stages of the covenant as they unfold in Genesis 6, 8, and 9. This is a study in the character of a God who keeps every word He has spoken. Scripture: Then Yahweh saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And Yahweh regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. And Yahweh said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among those in his generations; Noah walked with God. And Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and you shall cover it inside and out with pitch. “Now this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. “You shall make a window for the ark, and complete it to one cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. “As for Me, behold I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall breathe its last. “But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. “Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.” - Genesis 6:5-21 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Genesis6:5-21?partner=kootenaichurch https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Acts8:25-39?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

Simon Pranaitis opens with a question worth sitting with: how do we know God will actually keep His promises? Isn't there a limit to His patience? To answer it, he takes listeners back to Genesis and the very first covenant in Scripture, the covenant God made with Noah, his descendants, and all creation. The covenant unfolds in three stages, and Pranaitis walks through each one in turn. In Genesis 6, God promises to rescue His creation by grace, sparing Noah and his family from a judgment their generation had fully earned. In Genesis 8, after the flood, God promises to sustain His creation by His patience, committing to the steady rhythm of seedtime and harvest, day and night, even though man's heart remains unchanged. In Genesis 9, God promises to protect His creation by His oath, sealing an everlasting covenant with the sign of the rainbow, a covenant made not just with Noah but with every living creature and all of Noah's descendants, which means it reaches all the way to us. Pranaitis ties each stage back to the same conclusion: this covenant is proof of God's character, a God who keeps every word He has spoken. Listeners will come away with a clearer picture of why they can take God at His word, even when their own circumstances make that hard to believe. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

By Michael Anderson, Teacher | September 20, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Description: Paul writes to Timothy in 1 Tim 6:1-2 regarding the behavior of believing slaves. The historical and topical context and purpose for these instructions is explored. The instructions are then applied to modern employment to understand how our behaviors and attitudes can lead to the gospel being reviled (v. 1) or adorned (Tit. 2:10). Finally, serving and benefiting believing employers (v. 2) is addressed. Scripture: All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be slandered. But those who have believers as their masters must not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but must serve them all the more, because those who partake of the benefit are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. - 1 Timothy 6:1-2 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/1Timothy6:1-2?partner=kootenaichurch

Jim Osman continues in Psalm 145 with a picture of a God whose greatness cannot be searched out, known truly but never exhaustively, in any single attribute. He grounds that idea in Grudem's point that believers will never fully understand even one thing about God, not just God as a whole, and shows why that calls for a lifetime of praise rather than a passing thought. From there Osman turns to verses 4 through 6 and three concrete ways David describes for praising an unsearchably great God. The first is teaching the next generation to love and praise Him, which Osman argues is the calling of fathers specifically, not something to hand off to Sunday school teachers or Christian schools. The second is personally meditating on God's word and works until His splendor becomes genuinely attractive to the heart, not just known in the head. The third is warning others of God's fearsome judgments, from the flood to Sodom and Gomorrah to the final judgment, as a necessary part of presenting the gospel honestly. Osman challenges listeners to examine whether their own worship is shaped by daily meditation on God or whether it only shows up once a week, and he calls parents to make the praise of God the defining rhythm of their home. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🗝️ Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | September 13, 2026 | Worship Service Description: David was committed to daily praise for our great King. In this passage we see three ways that God is praised. Yahweh is praised when we teach the next generation to love and praise Him (v. 4), meditate upon His Word and works (v. 5), and warn others of His fearsome judgments (V. 6). An exposition of Psalm 145:3-6. Scripture: Great is Yahweh, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall laud Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty deeds. On the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on the words of Your wondrous deeds, I will muse. - Psalm 145:3-5 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Psalm145:3-5?partner=kootenaichurch https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Acts8:25-39?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | September 13, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce42 Description: What does Scripture actually require of parents, and does it settle where their children should go to school? In Lesson 42 of Christian Ethics, Dave Rich lays out a parent's duties under five heads: love, provision, instruction, modeling, and discipline. Love takes the longest, traced through the compassion of fathers and mothers in Scripture and ending with the father who runs to meet his prodigal son. Drawing on McQuilkin and Copan, Rich argues that the best gift parents give a child is to love one another well. Provision reaches past money: Jesus grew in wisdom, stature, and favor with God and men, and parents are charged with all four. Instruction opens the schooling question. Rich sets out the case for public school, Christian school, and homeschooling, and lets the arguments stand beside each other rather than handing down a verdict. Grudem's challenge anchors the middle option: can twelve years of instruction that excludes God's word count as bringing children up in the Lord? Discipline closes the lesson. Proverbs and Hebrews agree that a father who loves corrects, while Paul warns fathers not to provoke or exasperate. Good discipline, Rich concludes, is predictable, prompt, consistent, and balances love with justice. Key texts: Psalm 127:3-5, Luke 15:20, 1 Timothy 5:8, Luke 2:51-52, Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Ephesians 6:4, Proverbs 13:24, Hebrews 12:5-11 Next week: Michael Anderson. 9/27: Husbands and wives. ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/

Jim Osman opens a new mini-series on the Psalms with Psalm 145, a psalm he calls the perfect place to begin. He shows how this psalm stands as a capstone to David's writing, the last psalm attributed to David and the final acrostic psalm in the Psalter, working through the Hebrew alphabet in a way that mirrors the completeness of God's greatness. Osman lays out the shape of the whole psalm before turning to the text itself. The first half is David's personal praise, and the second half calls all creation to praise God, with both halves resting on two reasons: Yahweh is great and Yahweh is good. Osman notes that a God who was great but not good would be terrifying, while a God who was good but not great could do nothing for us. Scripture presents both together. Turning to verses 1 through 3, Osman examines the words David uses for worship, exalt, bless, and praise, and shows what it means to call Yahweh a great king whose greatness is unsearchable. He traces that unsearchable greatness from creation itself into the wisdom of redemption, where God's justice and mercy meet at the cross. Listeners get a clear map for the psalm ahead and a fresh reason to make praise a daily habit, not just a Sunday morning activity. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🤔 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | September 6, 2026 | Worship Service Description: Yahweh is a great King worthy of great praise. An overview of the unique features of Psalm 145 and its outline. An exposition of Psalm 145:1-3. Scripture: I will exalt You, my God, O King, And I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is Yahweh, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable. - Psalm 145:1-3 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Psalm145:1-3?partner=kootenaichurch https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Acts8:25-39?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | September 6, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce41 Description: The fifth commandment is addressed to everyone, not only to children still at home — so what does honoring your father and mother require of a grown son or daughter? In Lesson 41 of Christian Ethics and the Old Testament, Dave Rich takes the commandment apart — the verb, the two honorees, and the fact that no one ages out of it — then rebuilds it along the three lines Calvin drew: reverence, obedience, and gratitude. Obedience belongs to children under their parents' roof, and Paul pairs it with a charge to fathers not to provoke them. Reverence and gratitude never lapse. Gratitude is where the lesson turns practical. Jesus condemned a tradition that let a man dedicate his property to God and so escape supporting his parents, and Rich works out what provision actually looks like: its ordinary direction from parents to children, the duty that falls to adult children when a parent is genuinely in need, and the respect owed a parent's property. On the promise of long life attached to the commandment, Grudem and Matthew Henry both decline to spiritualize it away. The lesson closes on two limiting words — in the Lord — at once the foundation of parental authority and its boundary. Key texts: Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Exodus 21:17, Deuteronomy 21:18-21, Proverbs 30:17, Matthew 15:1-9, Ephesians 6:1-4, 1 Timothy 5:3-8 Next week: The ethics of parenting. ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/

What is the value of a book most modern Christians skip over on their way to the New Testament? Pastor Jim Osman makes the case for the Psalms in this introduction to a short new series, an exposition of Psalm 1 and Psalm 2. Before turning to the text, Osman lays out why the Psalms deserve careful attention. They are the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament, they were written across roughly a thousand years, and their Hebrew poetry works through structural parallelism rather than rhyme, so the beauty and meaning of the Psalms translate fully into any language. Osman also traces how thoroughly the Psalms describe God's character and the span of Old Testament history, and how they teach believers not just what to think about God but how to feel about him. Osman then revisits Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 as what he calls the gateway to the Psalter, the doorposts that frame every theme in the rest of the book. Psalm 1 contrasts the blessed man who delights in God's law with the wicked who will perish, and Psalm 2 answers the world's rebellion against God with an installed King on Zion, his own Son, who alone can ascend the holy hill and offers refuge to anyone who will trust him. This sermon sets up a five week series through Psalms 145, 113, 34, 46, and 62, built around psalms the congregation actually sings. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

🫵 Struggling to understand God's sovereignty? Get Jim's new book God Doesn't Try (with Dave Rich, Foreword by Costi W. Hinn) and discover how God accomplishes His will perfectly in salvation, the church, and the end times. 👉 Order now: https://jimosman.com --- By Jim Osman, Pastor | August 30, 2026 | Worship Service Description: We are starting a short series in the Psalms (145, 113, 34, 46, 62). We need to get reacquainted with the Psalms. We take a look at the uniqueness of the Psalms, the value of the Psalms and then revisit the gateway to the Psalms with Psalm 1 and Psalm 2. Scripture: How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of Yahweh, And in His law he meditates day and night. And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not rise in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish. - Psalm 1:1-6 LSB https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Psalm1:1-6?partner=kootenaichurch https://word.ofgod.link/lsb/Acts8:25-39?partner=kootenaichurch Kootenai Community Church Channel Links: https://linktr.ee/kootenaichurch Read your bible every day - No Bible? Check out these free resources: https://www.blueletterbible.org/ https://word.ofgod.link/nasb/John1:1-51?partner=kootenaichurch Daily Bible Reading App - Multi Version, Offline http://youversion.com Solid Biblical Teaching: Justin Peters Ministry: https://justinpeters.org/ Grace to You Sermons: https://www.gty.org/library/resources/sermons-library The Way of the Master: https://biblicalevangelism.com The online School of Biblical Evangelism will teach you how to share your faith simply, effectively, and biblically…the way Jesus did.

By Dave Rich, Teacher | August 30, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce40 Description: Two sincere Christians read the same fourth commandment and reach opposite conclusions about what Sunday requires of them—so where do they part company, and how much do they actually share? In Lesson 40 of Christian Ethics and the Old Testament, Dave Rich lays the Sabbatarian and non-Sabbatarian positions side by side, lets each speak in its own words, and works out where the disagreement is real. Rich opens by re-reading Exodus 20:8-11 and gathering up the previous lessons. In the Old Testament, the fourth commandment was grounded in creation and in the redemption from Egypt; its duties were rest, worship, and work; its penalty was death; and it was the sign of an eternal covenant with Israel. Jesus observed it, rejected the additions built onto it, approved works of necessity and mercy on it, asserted His sovereignty over it—and did not clearly command that it continue. The apostles imposed no Sabbath requirement at the Jerusalem council (Acts 15), left the observance of days to conscience (Romans 14), warned that observance turned into law is worthless (Galatians 4), called the Sabbath a shadow whose substance is Christ (Colossians 2), pointed the remaining rest forward to faith in Christ (Hebrews 3-4), commanded that Christians assemble (Hebrews 10), and worshiped on the first day of the week. That sets up the two views. Sabbatarianism holds that the Christian has an ethical obligation to observe the Sabbath as a day of rest and worship. Non-Sabbatarianism holds that he must assemble for worship but has no obligation to observe the Sabbath. For the Sabbatarian case, Rich goes to the Westminster Confession. Observance is legally binding: God "by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages... hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a Sabbath" (WCF 21.7). Sunday is that Sabbath, "to be continued to the end of the world as the Christian Sabbath." And it is thoroughgoing: believers "observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations," excepting only "the duties of necessity and mercy" (WCF 21.8). Rich draws out the five changes the position requires: the day, the name, the penalty (death to church discipline), what is memorialized (creation rest to resurrection), and the connection to the law of Moses. Luther supplies the non-Sabbatarian case. "As regards this external observance, this commandment was given to the Jews alone." It "does not concern us Christians; for it is altogether an external matter... now made free through Christ." Holy days are kept for bodily rest and, most especially, so that "freedom and time be taken to attend divine service." Sunday itself is good order: "since from of old Sunday has been appointed for this purpose, we also should continue the same." But Luther is no antinomian—God "will punish all who despise His Word," which indicts not only the man drunk in a tavern but those who "only from custom come to preaching" (Large Catechism). Calvin lands in the same place by another route. The seventh-day rest served three ends: a type of spiritual rest, a day to assemble, and relief from labor for servants. The first was a shadow; the other two "are adapted to every age. The Sabbath being abrogated, there is still room among us, first, to assemble on stated days for the hearing of the word... and, secondly, to give our servants and laborers relaxation from labor" (Institutes 2.8). Rich then tables the two views across eight issues and works the three questions that drive the disagreement. Is Sabbath observance a creation ordinance? John Frame reads Genesis 2:1-3 as a pattern: God "blessed it as a model for human imitation." Grudem and Douma read it as description—"there is no command in Genesis 1-2 to indicate that Adam and Eve were to observe the seventh day as a special day of rest." Does the law of Moses bind the Christian? Settled in Lessons 16-18, along covenantal and dispensational lines. Are the Sabbath provisions repealed or repeated in the New Testament? Neither side gets a clean text: not expressly repealed, not expressly repeated. Where they differ in practice: on rest, the Sabbatarian says one day in seven, the non-Sabbatarian what is "right and fair" (Colossians 4:1). On worship, both call it an ethical obligation—one day in seven, or at least one. On the day, both say Sunday. And the common ground is larger than the dispute. Both allow works of necessity and mercy, and both find spiritual rest in Christ and look forward to an eternal rest. Rich closes by turning the same questions toward the special days Christians actually keep—Resurrection Day, Christmas, Halloween, birthdays—and leaves the class to work them out. Next week: The fifth commandment. ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/

Who is worthy to stand in the presence of a holy God? Psalm 24 asks that question directly, and this sermon traces the answer all the way to the ascended Christ. A guest preacher walks through Psalm 24 as the third psalm in a trio that moves from priest, in Psalm 22, to prophet, in Psalm 23, to king, in this psalm, tracing three scenes, God as creator over all the chaos of the world, the question of who may ascend God's holy hill, and the celebration of the King of glory entering through the ancient gates. The heart of the message rests on the psalm's demand for clean hands and a pure heart. Rather than turning that standard into a burden or a checklist for earning access to God, the preacher shows that no one meets it, and that the psalm itself points forward to the one man who could, Jesus Christ, whose righteousness is credited to everyone who seeks God's face by faith. The sermon connects this psalm to the doctrine of the ascension, a truth the preacher notes is often assumed rather than celebrated, and closes with a picture of Christ enthroned, victorious, and reigning even now. This sermon reads an ancient psalm as a portrait of the gospel, meant to produce worship rather than guilt. ★ Support this podcast ★ (https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/)

By Guest Speaker | August 23, 2026 | Worship Service Psalm 24 asks the question the whole Old Testament is straining to answer: "Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?" Read alongside Psalm 22 (righteousness achieved) and Psalm 23 (righteousness applied), Psalm 24 is righteousness announced — the ascension of the risen Christ, the only man with clean hands and a pure heart, entering the gates as the King of glory. A message on rightly handling the text, the doctrine of assurance, and the good news that God has made the way for you. Kootenai Community Church | kootenaichurch.org

By Dave Rich, Teacher | August 23, 2026 | Adult Sunday School Lesson Files: https://mykcc.link/ce39 Description: Jesus never clearly commanded ongoing sabbath observance—so what did the men He sent out do with the fourth commandment? In Lesson 39 of Christian Ethics and the Old Testament, Dave Rich follows the question into the epistles and into the practice of the early church, and watches the day of worship move from Saturday to Sunday. The Old Testament grounded the fourth commandment in the pattern of creation and in Israel's redemption from slavery in Egypt; its duties were rest from work, worship, and work; its civil penalty in Israel was death; and sabbath observance was given as the sign of an eternal covenant between God and Israel. Jesus, for His part, observed the commandment, rejected the perversions and additions built onto it, approved good and necessary works on it, asserted His sovereignty over it—and did not clearly command that it continue. The apostolic evidence begins at the Jerusalem Council. Rich reads Acts 15:19-31 at length, because what the council does not say matters as much as what it does. James judges that the church should "not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles," and the letter that goes out to Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia lays on them "no greater burden than these essentials"—things sacrificed to idols, blood, things strangled, and sexual immorality. The sabbath is mentioned in the passage only in passing, as the day Moses is read in the synagogues. It is not among the essentials. And when the letter was read, the congregation "rejoiced because of its encouragement." Three Pauline texts push in the same direction. Romans 14:5-6 places the observance of days among matters of conscience: "One person judges one day above another, another judges every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind." Galatians 4:9-11 is sharper—Paul fears that the Galatians, having known God, are turning back to "the weak and worthless elemental things," observing "days and months and seasons and years," and he fears he has "labored over you for nothing." Colossians 2:13-17 supplies the category: the certificate of debt has been nailed to the cross, and therefore "no one is to judge you in food and drink, or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day—things which are only a shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ." Hebrews then takes the sabbath rest and points it forward rather than backward. Hebrews 3:16-19 asks who it was that God swore would not enter His rest, and answers: those who were disobedient, who "were not able to enter because of unbelief." Hebrews 4:1-2 warns that a promise of entering His rest still remains. Hebrews 4:9-11 states it plainly—"So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God"—and grounds it in the same creation pattern the commandment used: "the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His." Matthew 11:28-30 names where that rest is found: "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest... For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." The lesson's second half asks how the church got from Saturday to Sunday. Hebrews 10:24-25 establishes that Christians must gather at all—"not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some." Luke 24:52-53 and Acts 2:46-47 show the earliest believers worshiping daily, continually in the temple and breaking bread from house to house. Then Rich walks the first-day texts. Matthew 28:1-9: after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, the stone is rolled away, the angel announces the resurrection, and the women take hold of Jesus' feet and worship Him—the first Sunday worship service. John 20:1 marks the same day. Acts 20:7 finds the disciples gathered to break bread on the first day of the week, with Paul preaching until midnight. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 has Paul directing the churches of Galatia and Corinth alike to set something aside on the first day of every week. And Revelation 1:9-20 gives the day a name: John, exiled on Patmos, "was in the Spirit on the Lord's day" when he saw the risen Christ among the seven lampstands. Rich closes with John Calvin, who anticipated the obvious objection to singling out any day at all: "Why, it may be asked, do we not hold daily meetings, and thus avoid the distinction of days? Would that we were privileged to do so! Spiritual wisdom undoubtedly deserves to have some portion of every day devoted to it. But if, owing to the weakness of many, daily meetings cannot be held, and charity will not allow us to exact more of them, why should we not adopt the rule which the will of God has obviously imposed upon us?" (Calvin, John, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.8.32) ★ Support this ministry ★ https://kootenaichurch.org/product/online-giving/