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What Does the Bible Say About Self-harm?

  • by United Church of God
God gave His likeness to man. There are no other organisms on this planet that are made in the image of God, only humanity. We are special to Him, and we have received a special calling.
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The War Within

The War Within

  • by Carolyn Trombi
How do you handle those inner conflicts.
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Parental Pain

Parental Pain

  • by Robert H Berendt
What does God show us about the love of a parent?

Pain Sweetener

  • by United Church of God
Helping others through their trials can give us a new perspective on our own.

Pain - the Teacher

  • by United Church of God
"Ouch, that hurts," are words that also mean "I will never do that again." We hope this teacher does not stay long.

Illicit Sex: The Threat to Children

  • by Good News
The major consequences of sex before marriage include the problems of disease, premarital pregnancies, single mothers and fatherless children. Since 1960 in the United States, 'out of wedlock births have skyrocketed 511 percent, and the percentage of single-parent families has more than tripled' (Human Life Review, Spring-Summer 2000).

Divorce's Devastating Impact on Children

  • by Good News
Children of divorce often experience the same hardships suffered by children born out of wedlock. Because divorce typically slashes the mother's financial resources, "mothers and children in families that were not poor before separation suffered an average decline in income after divorce of 50 percent" (Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture, 1996, p. 93).
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Why Does Evil Exist?

  • by Bill Bradford
In the wake of the New York and Washington, D.C., suicide bombings, we need to find a plain answer to this great question.

Armageddon and Divine Intervention

  • by Gerhard Marx
In an age of ever-increasing violence and horrifying acts of terrorism, bewildered people ask: Where is God? Why did the Almighty not intervene and prevent the outrages of Sept. 11?

The Middle East in Prophecy

  • by Melvin Rhodes
The world stood transfixed in the wake of a carefully planned series of hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center, crippled the Pentagon and took the lives of more than 5,000 men, women and children. On a sunny September morning, the world dramatically changed. What is the long-term significance?
More Disasters on the Horizon?

More Disasters on the Horizon?

  • by Tom Robinson
The shocking events of recent times should serve as a powerful wake-up call to the United States and other nations that sprang from Britain. God repeatedly warns that He will bring punishment on the modern descendants of Israel until they turn from their disobedience and repent.
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How to Seek God's Will

  • by Good News
Many leaders are imploring us to pray for God's help. Indeed we should. But let's be realistic enough to realize that God will hear us only if we are willing to hear Him.

A Different World

  • by Mario Seiglie
The terrible events of Sept. 11 may have forever altered life for much of the world. That day's atrocities underscored the grim reality that the cultural clash between Islamic extremism and the West is a clash of different worlds.
Why Do We Blame God for Catastrophes?

Why Do We Blame God for Catastrophes?

  • by Good News
When an accidental death occurs or a weather disaster or earthquake demolishes buildings and injures or kills people, is it fair to classify such troubling events as deliberate acts of God?

Where Was God?

  • by Bruce Gore
If God is all powerful and all knowing, the source of all that is good and kind and right, how could He allow evil human beings to snuff out the lives of people who have done them no harm? Why would He allow such things?

A Rising Tide of Islamic Fundamentalism

  • by Good News
What fuels Islamic fundamentalism? An article in the November-December 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs helps us understand the roots of the motivation that probably lies behind the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.