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Good News Magazine: July - August 2002

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Does Marriage Matter?

  • by Scott Ashley
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 families. Almost everywhere you look, the family is in trouble.
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God's Purpose for Sex and Marriage

God's Purpose for Sex and Marriage

  • by Noel Hornor
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—and why?

What Is True Love?

  • by Good News
"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 title of Mr. Porter's song suggests, many—perhaps most—do not know what love really is.

Living Together: What Aren't They Telling You?

  • by Noel Hornor
Millions of people choose to live together outside of marriage, thinking that will bring them happiness and a stable relationship. The truth, however, is far different.

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).

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).

The Transforming Power of Forgiveness

  • by Good News
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 will be forgiven.

What Do You Know And What Will You Do About It

  • by Darris McNeely
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 advance information the government had—and whether that could have prevented the attacks. But a larger question to consider is: What does it take for a people to awaken to the urgency of the times?

America's Child Sacrifice

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Child sacrifice is horrifying to even contemplate. Yet it remains with us, practiced millions of times every year.

America's Values War

  • by David Treybig
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 reconsider some of the values they thought archaic not that long ago—values like courage and personal sacrifice for the good of others.
An open Bible on top of a table.

God's Test Commandment

  • by Scott Ashley
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 about you?

The Sabbath in the Scriptures

  • by Good News
Most people have given little thought to what God says about the Sabbath in His Word. Here are some highlights:
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From Sabbath to Sunday

  • by Good News
So when did Sunday, the first day of the week, come to be seen as a substitute for the seventh-day Sabbath?

Just For Youth... What's So Special About Families?

  • by David Treybig
Some suggest a family should be redefined as any group of people living together in the same household, irrespective of blood connection or sexual orientation. But is such definition warranted? Before we throw away our traditional view, maybe we should consider what we would lose in the process.

World News and Trends: Outside powers to occupy Middle East?

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes, Scott Ashley
Writing in the British Independent newspaper, diplomatic correspondent Robert Fisk commented on the continuing Mideast conflict, which has contributed to the division between the United States and the European Union.

World News and Trends- Southern Africa: Hunger may affect millions

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes, Scott Ashley
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 soon have to feed up to 8 million people in Southern Africa as famine stalks a region wracked by drought, floods, economic mismanagement and political instability."