Living Church News

Volume 2, No. 4, May/June 2000

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Correction: The Way to Maturity

Personal Roderick C. Meredith (1930-2017)

Dear Brethren and Friends, We are rapidly coming up on the Day of Pentecost. It is my hope that all of you have experienced a positive Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread observance. Now, as we prepare for Pentecost and…

Enthusiasm and ZEAL

Editorial Roderick C. Meredith (1930-2017)

Enthusiasm and zeal are both characteristics of nearly every great servant of God in the Bible. Yet, in our modern age, the attitude of being “cool” seems to prevail. People seem to be suspicious of anyone getting “too excited” about Christianity…

Being a Holy People

John H. Ogwyn (1949-2005)

The children of Israel were overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude and awe. They had just witnessed one of the most dramatic miracles of all time—the Red Sea literally opening up and providing them a highway of escape from their captors! Not only had…

Teamwork

Douglas S. Winnail

Is it really “just you and God?” Or is there a bigger and more important picture? One of the greatest challenges we face in this life is learning to work together with other people. This is especially difficult today because we are continually…

Having the Mind of Christ

Martin Fannin

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). Why this emphatic statement about having the mind of Christ? Since the mind is the seat of intellect, the control center for our thoughts and actions, can we really have the…

Christ's Most Painful Experience

Donald Roach

Jesus Christ was a man of suffering, and One who was acquainted with grief. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem…

Can You Take It With You?

Dexter B. Wakefield

It was an astonishing thing to hear. The Church member said that a man with whom he had attended Church several years ago had asserted: “Nowhere does the Bible say there is a reward for works!” Not only did this man, an elder, not believe as he once…

A Christian's Need For Fasting

Rod McNair

When was the last time you fasted? Was it last week, last month or on the Day of Atonement? The answer to these questions may reveal how deeply you feel the need for regular, personal fasting.