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Good News Magazine: March - April 2007

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Is There Really a Spirit World?

  • by Mario Seiglie
Both popular culture and religion bombard us with references to the spirit world. But is it real? What’s it all about? Where can you turn to sort out fact from fable?
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The Spirit World's Dangerous Dark Side

  • by Mario Seiglie
Strange practices and religions such as Wicca, Santeria, voodoo and channeling are growing in popularity. What's behind them? Are such things harmless, or is there more to them than meets the eye?

What Is Channeling?

  • by Good News
Those who do the channeling claim they are receiving information or commands from a divine or unknown source. In effect, they say, they are like a radio receiving a signal from a transmitter. But who is speaking through the channeler?

What Will It Mean for the West if Radical Islam Triumphs?

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq may not worry the average American or European, but could defeat there also mean defeat at home? Could the seemingly inexorable advance of radical Islam in the Middle East be replicated in the West?
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Radical Liberalism: What's the Harm?

  • by Gary Petty
Lawyers argue in U.S. courts that pornography falls under the constitutional right of free speech. There is a strong movement to replace Judeo-Christian influences in schools with extreme multiculturalism. Radical feminists denounce concepts of the traditional family. Homosexuals want to totally redefine marriage. What is happening to America?

The Jesus So Few Know

  • by Dan Taylor
Why is the Christianity people see so different from the Jesus Christ of the Bible? Could it be that many have a fundamental misunderstanding of His teaching?
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What Did Jesus Teach About Sin?

  • by Good News
Most would rather bask in nice stories about Christ, in the knowledge of His grace and forgiveness of sin without acknowledging the requirements of obedience to Him and His law or the consequences of sin.
Spiritual Growth: From Immaturity to Immortality

Spiritual Growth: From Immaturity to Immortality

  • by Don Hooser
In the previous seven articles of this series we have explained essential tools for spiritual transformation—prayer, Bible study, meditation, fasting, repentance, baptism and the Church. Now we consider how to use all these tools to attain our ultimate destiny of eternal life!

World News and Trends: Doomsday clock ticks closer

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
For some 60 years the "doomsday clock" has been ticking in Chicago, sponsored by the directors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. They set it at seven minutes to midnight—midnight being a nuclear holocaust—back in 1947.

World News and Trends: Jews in Britain under attack

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Just over a year ago, in mid-February of 2006, British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks called for calm "in the face of recent, highly disturbing events" indirectly affecting the Jewish community in Britain. To most British Jews an act against the state of Israel is an act against themselves.

World News and Trends: France no longer a Catholic country?

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
A recent poll printed in Le Monde Des Religions revealed that "the number of self-declared French Catholics had dropped from 80 percent in the early 1990s and 67 percent in 2000 to 51 percent today." In contrast, the number of declared atheists rose from 23 percent in 1994 to 31 percent today.

World News and Trends: Why bad news in The Good News?

  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
Speaking of conditions before His return, Jesus Christ said our planet will experience "a time of great distress, such as there has never been before since the beginning of the world, and will never be again" (Matthew 24:21, Revised English Bible).