Living Church News

Volume 17, No. 3, May/June 2015

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The "Fruits" of the True Church

Personal Roderick C. Meredith (1930-2017)

Dear Brethren and Friends,

The First New Testament Pentecost

Editorial Richard F. Ames

After Jesus ascended to heaven, the disciples “returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey” (Acts 1:12). The disciples met in an “upper room where they were staying” (v. 13).

The Promise of Acts 2:39

Gary F. Ehman

True Christians have embarked on an annual journey that starts with the Christian Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. This experience keeps them in remembrance of the great sacrifice that both God the Father and Jesus the Christ expended…

The Spirit of Peace

Dexter B. Wakefield

More slaughter in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Nigeria, Ukraine! Beheadings, mass killings, violence all over the world! Unimaginable human suffering goes on and on and on. Homegrown terrorism has sprouted across Europe and the United…

Revealing the Father Through the Annual Festivals

Peter G. Nathan

Jesus Christ told His disciples that He alone knew the Father and that the revealing of the Father would be to those to whom Christ Himself would reveal Him (Matthew 11:25–27). One of the ways in which Jesus did this is through the annual…

Higher Education: A Christian Perspective

Scott D. Winnail

Scripture is replete with God’s admonitions for His people to prepare wisely for their future. God, the author and creator of the universe and the loving Father of us all, gave us clear guidelines to follow as we prepare to be used by Him in our…

Overcoming the Dread of It All

Woman to Woman Faye League

Ladies, no matter what your station in life is at the present time—whether it be a domestic engineer (a full-time homemaker), clerk, paralegal, secretary, teacher, student, lawyer, waitress, to name a few—there are certain mundane, but necessary…

Churchill: Man of Destiny

Commentary John Meakin

Seventy years ago, in July 1945, on the heels of great triumph, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned as Prime Minister when his Conservative Party went down to defeat in Britain’s first general election since the close of World War II.