Reading the Sunday Paper
"Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.” Exodus 20:20 It all started with the Sunday newspaper. Growing up, we never read the Sunday paper in our house. It was a day set aside for God and for rest. My mother and father always took that very seriously. So did I. After graduating from college and getting an apartment of my own, the local newspaper began to throw a free daily subscription on my porch in an attempt to get me to subscribe. As I began to read it with interest each day, I looked forward to the Sunday edition. It was the biggest and fattest with special coupons and sections I did not find on the other days of the week. The next thing I knew, the entire afternoon after church services was filled with reading the Sunday paper rather than reading the Holy Bible and resting as I had been lovingly taught. It wasn't long before that one little act of compromise—that I didn't even recognize as co