Living Church News

Volume 20, No. 2, March/April 2018

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The New Challenge of Reaching the Secular-minded

Personal Gerald E. Weston

Dear Brethren,

How Will You Approach Deleavening?

Editorial Gerald E. Weston

Jesus gave four categories of people in the Parable of the Sower. Some seeds landed by the wayside and birds of the air devoured them. Other seeds fell on stony places with little soil. They came up quickly but then died in the heat. Then there were…

The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees

Dexter B. Wakefield

On the evening beginning the 14th of Nisan, we take the Passover, as instructed by Christ and the apostles. We do it at the same time and in the same manner that the Church of God did it in the first century (1 Corinthians 11:23–25).

Paid in Full: The Completeness of the Price Christ Paid

Wallace G. Smith

If one contemplates it, even for a few moments, a truth about our faith stands out as something truly remarkable. The Creator of all things, the Ever-Living One, became flesh and blood just like us and died to pay for our sins. His sacrifice was…

50 Years in the Ministry—and Counting, An interview with Lambert Greer

The Crucifixion Darkness and the Events Surrounding Christ's Sacrifice

Wyatt Ciesielka

Awesome signs and wonders accompanied the death of the Messiah (Matthew 27:51–53). The earth shook. The temple veil was torn in two. The tombs were opened and, later, many of the saints were resurrected from the dead! Even the sun "failed" for about…

The Ultimate Loss

Commentary J. Davy Crockett III

Profound sadness is the deep emotion one feels when we learn of the death of a child of tender years. It is an emotion that once gripped me strongly, when I learned of the death of two children, ages nine and twelve, a little boy and a girl having…