Living Church News

Volume 20, No. 4, July/August 2018

Why You Need to Read This

Personal Gerald E. Weston

Dear Brethren, Some of you are familiar with Country magazine, where they hide an image of a needle somewhere in the pages of each issue for readers to find. Sometimes it is easy to spot, other times not. So…

The Peace and Reconciliation of Ephesians 2:14

Wyatt Ciesielka

There are real walls, and there are symbolic walls. There are helpful walls, and there are harmful walls. A well-maintained wall surrounding a beautifully manicured garden is valuable and beneficial. Anciently, a strong wall around a town was a…

Young and Single: A Season of Preparation

Scott D. Winnail

The life season of singleness is unique and filled with both challenge and opportunity. Being young and single can be exciting! Singles typically have more free time, energy, money and flexibility than they will have later in life. However, this…

The Challenge of Athens

Wallace G. Smith

The world is not what it once was. For decades, God’s Church has preached the Gospel of His Kingdom to a culture that—to a great degree—at least respected the Bible. That is changing quickly.

To Be Discreet

Glory Talbott

Discretion is one of the attributes we see in Titus 2:5. Older women are “to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” And if older women are admonished to be discreet, we…