Living Church News

Dear Brethren, From time to time, the Church is required to “mark”—take note of—someone. We read of this in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the church at Corinth, composed under the inspiration of God near the Days of Unleavened Bread.…

What a year this has been! We would normally have this issue of the Living Church News filled with summer camp material, but, as you will see, that has been scaled back a bit. The Adventure Camp was a huge success, as was the West Virginia…

As we in the United States prepare to celebrate our national Thanksgiving Day holiday on the fourth Thursday in November, we may remember that other nations have their own days of thanksgiving. In Canada, Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday…

Years ago, I knew a man who would call from time to time to tell me about his latest doctrinal ideas. He had attended a congregation I had pastored, but he had left to begin attending with various other, smaller groups. Sometimes I was interested in…

My wife and I have been going through the book of Judges, in which we read, “Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore I will deliver you no more. Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them…

There is a word often associated with the American holiday of Thanksgiving that God inspired the authors of the Bible to use to describe His saints. David used it in 1 Chronicles 29:12–15 when he praised God for His blessings and lovingkindness upon…