Good News Magazine: July - August 2002

Table of Contents

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The Good News magazine is dedicated to showing solutions to our problems. No doubt some of our greatest challenges lie in today's marriages and...
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God's Purpose for Sex and Marriage
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We live in a world saturated with sex. But are we missing an unrealized dimension when it comes to sex and marriage? When and how did sex originate...
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God created sex- and He pronounced it very good.
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"What Is This Thing Called Love?" is a popular song by the late Cole Porter. Love is the most popular theme of songwriters and poets. Yet, as the...
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Millions of people choose to live together outside of marriage, thinking that will bring them happiness and a stable relationship. The truth, however...
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The sexual revolution of the '60s encouraged us to liberate ourselves from old sexual taboos. Millions did. What have we learned?
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Children of divorce often experience the same hardships suffered by children born out of wedlock. Because divorce typically slashes the mother's...
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The major consequences of sex before marriage include the problems of disease, premarital pregnancies, single mothers and fatherless children. Since...
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The fact of the matter is that sex in any context other than marriage is damaging and the statistics prove it.
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Jesus preached forgiveness upon repentance. If sexual sin has been a problem in anybody's life, if they truly repent and turn their ways around, they...
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While America slept, the nation was caught unprepared for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Some have questioned how much...
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Child sacrifice is horrifying to even contemplate. Yet it remains with us, practiced millions of times every year.
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The war on terrorism, uncertainty in the economy, worries over unemployment. Every day it’s more bad news. In recent months people have begun to...
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An open Bible on top of a table.
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God described one of His commandments as a "test" command. Which command is that? What was he testing? How has mankind fared with that test —and what...
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Most people have given little thought to what God says about the Sabbath in His Word. Here are some highlights:
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So when did Sunday, the first day of the week, come to be seen as a substitute for the seventh-day Sabbath?
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A open Bible laying on a table.
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Jesus stunned His listeners in proclaiming His own divine identity. But He went even further, quoting a verse that tells human beings, "You are gods."...
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The winds of political change are blowing across Europe, including upheavals in the Netherlands and France.
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Some suggest a family should be redefined as any group of people living together in the same household, irrespective of blood connection or sexual...
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Writing in the British Independent newspaper, diplomatic correspondent Robert Fisk commented on the continuing Mideast conflict, which has contributed...
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A Sunday Times feature article contained an element of surprise.
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Not many years ago it would have been unthinkable, but now it's happened: Russia has become a NATO partner.
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The following summary was included in a report from Maseru, Lesotho, to The Independent on Sunday: "The World Food Programme is warning that it may...
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AIDS continues to claim a devastating toll in southern Africa. Botswana, the world's worst-hit country, has an HIV infection rate of 38.5 percent.
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Concerns are growing about the inevitability of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.