Eric Martienssen, President of G-d’s Sabbath International, Cologne, D-50733

New Year morning, Rosh HaSchana 5768, for me His feast (hebr. Moed = defined time) should become this year like a new life. Initially was nothing of that visible on Thursday morning of last week. On the contrary, building noise directly before my flat door (…you shall do no work on this day; a day of blowing the trumpet shall it be for you) and busy business life along the Main street, that leads to ‚my park‘ - the very park, in which I take in the Parashot and Haphtarah of the relevant feast of the LORD on every Shabbat, His Word for me. For a while I laid it next to me on the bench, looked full amazement at His sky, His creation and this day. Tonight I would, first time ever outside a Synagogue, celebrate together with Jews and Christians a feast of God – I was almost lame out of gratefulness. After several minutes I grabbed a piece of paper, wrote this testimony down while crying happily and finished it (with regard to Jom Kippur) with the promise, that I would ask in my thoughts every person on the way home, out of rejoicing over the personally received happiness, „Please, forgive me!“ …His WORD for me was still unopened next to me; only an idea – as it would be virgin like untouched, yet knowing, I had already experienced on my own body – smelled as a foretaste the morning air of autumn, cuttingly bitter and sweet, like angels of the LORD.
From affliction becomes passion. From complete trust, comes divine promise: read more…

Rosh HaShanah-Ceremony in Bonn (5768)
 
One candle: I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! (Lk 12,49)…
…this way we met yesterday night to celebrated the feast of Rosh HaShanah together, while having a traditional New Years-meal. Us, Jews (hard to believe, all Sabre) and Christians, from Cologne, Meckenheim and Bonn. read more…

HCI - Deputy CEO Dr. med. Georg Blum, D-56191 Weitersburg

I believe if we mean it serious with our following Jesus, we will not come around to sanctify the Shabbat. Through the confession to His Shabbat it comes to a healing in our basic relation to the Creator God … What by all means can bring with it physical healing, believe only, so that you may receive it, so it will be yours! Yes, I believe, it has to do with the heartily “reception”, to become a concrete part of His wonderful works - and to thank Him in advance, He is holy! Through thankfulness we will be enabled, “to register” Him, to receive Him! So I receive nowadays His promises for me in faith, that in the spiritual realm they are already fulfilled in love - and thank Him! For instance in Psalm 118:17-18: I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. The Shabbat is His work, since eternity prepared for me. I just needed to receive it, so that this joy could come into existence. This work I will proclaim, especially to the children in all the world - I burn so much for, that I can‘t wait, till He has healed me again. I thank the LORD for the kindling of this longing and desire in me. Thereby I take Him nothing from His holy sovereignty. We live all by grace alone. Shabbat Shalom!

Pastor Markus Roll, icf-bonn church e.V., Bonn D-53111

For me as Pastor the Sunday is anyway my main working day, for the glory of the resurrection of Jesus. Naturally I keep the Shabbat, for else I would have no day of rest.

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Pastor Rolf Piller, House of Prayer and Outreach Ministries, Düsseldorf D-40221

Some years ago I came to realise that it is fairly strange that God is talking about eternal feasts and celebrations, but in church they were not reflected. I started to ask, to dig and then I found out that they were changed by man, thus God’s word was still true. As I saw that it was difficult to find support I concluded: “What stops me from simply keeping them?” So I started and find that my live did take a turn to the better, in relationship to Him.

Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. (Genesis 2,1-3)

Translation: New King James Version if not marked different.