Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching, and if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Hello friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast. Thank you for joining me

in this Ask Anything Theology series. We are kind of reconvening the Ask Anything Theology series,

which we did last year in 2021, and then pause to do the marriage series, and we're starting

it back up again. So super excited about that. And our first episode in this series was more specific

to cultural commentary. We talked about redeeming love, the book, and movie, and some things to

consider biblically and spiritually with that. And then this week we are talking about Sabbath,

and why do Christians observe the quote-unquote Sabbath on a Sunday? And so I'm just going to do a

real high level view of this. That's what we do here at Verity. I'm not going to be able to cover

every nuance. I would love to, but I just can't do it in the 20 to 30 minutes that I have.

And so we're just going to look at a few different passages in scripture, and then we're going to

read from a couple of sources, particularly an awesome book I have by scholar Justo Gonzales,

called A Brief History of Sunday, from the New Testament to the New Creation. And Justo Gonzales is

one of my favorite scholars to read. He has an amazing church history set that I highly recommend

called the story of Christianity, but he also has many, many Bible studies and commentaries available

both in Spanish and in English. So shout out to Justo because I am his biggest fan. So we're going

to talk today about Sabbath and why Christians observe their worship on Sunday when we know that

Jesus was observing a Sabbath on the traditional Jewish day that we now know as Saturday.

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