Living Church News

Volume 11, No. 1, January/February 2009

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There Is More Work to Do!

Personal Roderick C. Meredith (1930-2017)

Dear Brethren and Friends,

What Is Deep Conversion?

Editorial Roderick C. Meredith (1930-2017)

What is the one key area of Christian life which shows whether a person is deeply converted or not? Sabbath keeping? Showing love? Being zealous for the Work?

Trust in God's Power in 2009

Richard F. Ames (1936-2024)

Every year, billions of people celebrate December 31 as "New Year's Eve. "We in God's Church know that the world is following a secular pattern founded in superstition and paganism, so we do not observe that holiday. We know that God's calendar…

Healing: What God Expects of Us

Wyatt Ciesielka

Shortly after Jesus Christ's resurrection, He visited the disciples and gave them some very important instructions that we often call "The Great Commission" (Mark 16:14– 18). Christ foretold that certain signs would follow those who…

Festival 2008: A Foretaste of Millennial Joy

More than 6,800 Living Church of God brethren gathered at 44 Feast sites in 30 countries last October to keep the Feast of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day. Here are reports from many of those sites, to help us recapture the spirit of uplift and…

Abraham and Isaac: Would You Do What Abraham Did?

Dexter B. Wakefield

"By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son" (Hebrews 11:17).

Economic Crisis, Leadership and Prophecy

Commentary Wallace G. Smith

The ongoing economic drama playing out in America is fascinating, but only in the way that one might find a train wreck fascinating.