Good News Magazine: July - August 2009

Table of Contents

6 minutes
Did you know that God set aside a special day so you can have meaningful, lasting contact with Him? Nearly 6,000 years ago our Creator declared the...
2 minutes
When did Sunday, the first day of the week, come to be seen as a substitute for the seventh-day Sabbath commanded in Scripture?
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Two elephants lifting a log.
8 minutes
The biblical qualities of meekness and gentleness are misunderstood and undervalued in today's society of extremes—where all too often people tend to...
3 minutes
Humanity is heading down its own perilous road toward a far more serious type of bankruptcy.
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The New World Disorder: Where Is It Taking Us?
14 minutes
Why does the world seem to be crumbling into chaos? Can we restrain the forces of anarchy? Is it possible to right the course of our severely straying...
4 minutes
Are warnings being given now that people are intentionally choosing not to listen to?
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What's at the Heart of National Problems?
10 minutes
In the Bible we find page after page of God's warnings to ancient Israel of the inevitable negative consequences of national and individual sins. But...
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A Modern Menace: Emerging and Reemerging Diseases
18 minutes
Worried health officials have declared the latest swine flu outbreak to be a worldwide epidemic, though so far it has proven not to be as deadly as...
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A Lesson in Prayer
8 minutes
You've probably heard about the power of prayer and how prayer can bring about wonderful changes in your life. But have you ever prayed and nothing...
3 minutes
In a world currently focused on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Israel—not to mention a biting recession—it's easy to overlook important...
3 minutes
Ethan Bronner, reporting in Jerusalem for the International Herald Tribune, raises an important question in regard to U.S.-Israeli relations: "Iran...
2 minutes
A report by the United Nations Nuclear Agency says that Iran has increased its number of centrifuges enriching uranium [to almost 5,000] and that...
3 minutes
Governments get into deep trouble when many things go wrong at once.
2 minutes
LGBT is an acronym that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender." You'll probably be seeing it more often in the coming months, especially...
6 minutes
Even though fear and anxiety are affecting more and more people, there is a way to be positive in spite of the troubling news that dominates our lives...
16 minutes
Important world events are happening all around us. But what do they mean? Can we understand? Here are four key principles for analyzing world events...