Every Sunday is a Celebration

by Chuck Adair on November 11, 2024

Every Sunday is a Celebration

Read Numbers 29

Today’s Truth

During the seventh month of the year, the people of Israel celebrated three major holidays — the Festival of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Festival of Tabernacles.

During these national holidays, the people gathered to worship. They suspended work and daily activities and brought burnt offerings before the Lord to show their commitment. Each celebration was an opportunity to refresh their minds and renew their faith in God.

Discussion Questions

What’s one benefit you experience from coming to church every week?
Do you feel separated and far from God? What’s one step you can take this week to break your normal routine and carve out time to hear from Him?
What’s one thing giving has taught you about obedience to God? What’s one thing it’s taught you about trust in God?

Application

These festivals were a way for the Israelites to break from their routines and renew their commitment to God. And in many ways, that’s what we get to do every Sunday. We break our routine and gather as a church to sing, celebrate, and bring our offerings to God.

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About the Author

Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

Every Sunday is a Celebration