Entering God's Rest

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up–emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.— This is a really good book to cut your teeth with on the subject of the Christian Sabbath/The Lord's Day. Golden does a decent job in tracing the doctrine of the Sabbath through the Scriptures, gives some good principles for modern observance of the Christian Sabbath and how we ought to think of it—and those who disagree with us.In the end, he gives some examples of ways one might put those principles to use. Honestly, this last chapter is the weakest, and it seems to me that he wasn't consistent in his application of his own principles, and ended up with suggestions that were pretty weak (and maybe a compromise?)Ignoring the last chapter, it was a decent, quick and easy read. But I'd recommend Ryan McGraw's [b:The Day of Worship: Reassessing the Christian Life in Light of the Sabbath 13150914 The Day of Worship Reassessing the Christian Life in Light of the Sabbath Ryan M. McGraw https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1414899105l/13150914.SY75.jpg 18328914], Joseph A. Pipa's [b:The Lord's Day 65439 The Lord's Day Joseph A. Pipa Jr. https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388640403l/65439.SY75.jpg 63488], or Nicholas Bownd's [b:The True Doctrine of the Sabbath 25184529 The True Doctrine of the Sabbath Nicholas Bownd https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1426896019l/25184529.SY75.jpg 44892421] instead (ranked by increasing length, depth, and complexity).