This is my go-to book to hand to people when they say they want to understand the Lord’s Day, and why I am a Sabbatarian. Chantry’s attitude is kind and generous; he does not beat his readers over the head or make them feel shamed. Instead, he holds out a beautiful gift that God has for his people: the Lord’s Day. Many (might I say most?) evangelicals, and even Reformed Christians, view the Lord’s Day in negative terms. What if we could recapture and see the Lord’s Day the way God sees it: as a gift for his people that blesses us? Chantry is very helpful a recapturing this positive vision of the Lord’s Day.

In many respects this is more of a book about the biblical theology of the Sabbath than an overview of the Lord’s Day or apologetic for Sabbath observance (though it does include those things). As Waters says in the introduction, “the Sabbath is a weekly invitation from God to draw close and enter into renewed fellowship with the one who made us and who redeemed sinners at the cost of his own Son. And it is a weekly reminder that in Christ, the best is yet to come.”

We do live in a time when evangelicals have largely set the Sabbath aside, or have so reduced its importance that it is scarcely recognizable from what we find in Scripture. Robert Haldane’s work is definitely meant to be a work of persuasion. If you are looking to be persuaded that Sunday is the Lord’s Day, and that it ought to be observed as the Lord’s Day, this may be one of the best books you can read on the topic. Also an excellent resource if you wonder why the Christian Sabbath is not on Saturdays.