Unsheathe Your Sword! (Part Two) (April 2024)

April 2024
Volume 33, Number 3

Christ has consistently given each generation of the church the same message: "To him who overcomes." Only an overcomer, victor, or conqueror will become a child of God. As Paul reminds us, our battles are spiritual; that is, we must overcome our carnal human nature and begin to live the life of God. Pat Higgins provides some strategies to help us win our battles against the sinful habits that still lie within us.

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh
The Wavesheaf Offering

Many in God's church know little about the wavesheaf offering, even though it represents one of the most significant acts of God's Plan: the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ! The day this offering was to be given is also the first day of the count to Pentecost, making it a significant time-marker for God's people. John Ritenbaugh explains the offering's relevance to us today.

Ready Answer
Unsheathe Your Sword! (Part Two)
by Pat Higgins

Christ has consistently given each generation of the church the same message: "To him who overcomes." Only an overcomer, victor, or conqueror will become a child of God. As Paul reminds us, our battles are spiritual; that is, we must overcome our carnal human nature and begin to live the life of God. Pat Higgins provides some strategies to help us win our battles against the sinful habits that still lie within us.

I Am Barabbas
by Staff

Many, reading the accounts of Jesus Christ's trial and crucifixion, note the story of Barabbas, the criminal Pilate freed that Passover instead of Jesus. Some realize a few of the parallels between the two men and see Barabbas as an anti-Jesus, a sinner whom the people chose rather than the Savior. But the lesson of Barabbas goes much deeper, affecting us personally as sinners who received unmerited pardon through Christ.

Head 'Em Up and Move 'Em Out!
by Mike Ford

Among the many doctrinal debates that cycle through the churches of God on a regular basis is the question of when the Passover should be kept, the fourteenth or the fifteenth of Abib/Nisan? Leviticus 23:5 reads plainly that Passover should be kept "on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight." Does it matter as long as we keep it? Mike Ford shows how the logistics of Israel leaving Egypt prove that Passover should be kept on the 14th.