Magazine Issue

Good News Magazine: July - August 1997

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Will Your Marriage Survive the Tough Times?

We all face difficult times. When the storms of life hit, how will they affect your marriage? What can you do to make sure your marriage will survive?
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Putting Romance Back Into Marriage

Basic misunderstandings can lead to a lack of romance later in marriage. Here are practical ways you can renew and revitalize your marriage!
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Hong Kong Handover: Symbols of a Global Transfer of Power

A global power a century ago, once in control of a quarter of the world's land mass, Britain is losing yet another key possession: the thriving island of Hong Kong.
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Society's Slide Into Sexual Immorality

We are now some 30 years into the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s. What has been the impact on society? What are the implications for the future?
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Why Is the New Covenant Better?

How does that covenant differ from God's previous covenant with ancient Israel?
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The Greatest Destroyer of Marriage

If increased divorce was one result of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, another ominous trend accelerated even more dramatically: the number of couples living together outside of marriage.
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Building Bonds in Marriage

Several societal forces move marriage partners toward isolation and loneliness. But practical means are available to build the bonds that make a marriage grow stronger.
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The Bible and Archaeology: The Red Sea or the Reed Sea?

For many years scholars have disagreed over the identity of the sea the Israelites crossed and thus the site of the drowning of Pharaoh's army. Three routes for the Exodus have been proposed and continue to be debated.
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God's Color Guard

Being a member of the color guard, bearing the standard for a group, is a position of honor, courage and responsibility. You are called to help bear a standard.
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How to Practice Love and Respect

How can you practice love and respect in your marriage? How can you start living these two important principles?
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Lessons from the First Marriage

God is the designer of marriage, instituting it with our first human parents, Adam and Eve. What can we learn from their marriage?
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Keys to a Lasting Marriage

For many years couples entered into marriage assuming their loving relationship would last "until death do us part." Now about half of all marriages in many countries end in divorce. What has changed? What makes some marriages last while others...
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World News and Trends: Thou shalt not steal (usually)

Church of England priest John Papworth raised a furor when he suggested that shoplifting is acceptable if the victim is a large supermarket or corporation.
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World News and Trends: Soviet fall hits population hard

The collapse of the U.S.S.R. has led to major social changes and a potentially major population decline, according to observers.
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World News and Trends: Germany faces jobs crisis

Unemployment in Germany has risen to the highest level since World War II, according to figures released by the government, triggering warnings of possible strikes and other social upheavals from opposition leaders and economists.
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World News and Trends: U.S. concern over Mideast threats

The U.S. State Department has tried to draw the world's attention to developments in both Iran and Libya.
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World News and Trends: Hebron only a beginning

Some Arab states and the Palestinians regard the Hebron agreement as only a stepping-stone to more concessions on the part of Israel.
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World News and Trends: Europeanizing nuclear weapons

Increasing evidence exists of a Franco-German push to Europeanize nuclear weapons.
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World News and Trends: Seventh-day confusion

Strict Sunday observance is deteriorating in Britain.