Reaching Out Magazine

• The atomic bomb brought a swift end to World War II sixty-three years ago. The whole world welcomed the peace (?).
• For forty-some years Yugoslavia enjoyed peace (?) under the strong communist dictator Tito. Many years later, with the butchery going on among the various ethnic groups of Croatia and Bosnia, did we understand what simmering hatred Tito was able to suppress?
• Many husbands and wives fight. Their children’s lives are torn up until in some cases peace (?) is restored through divorce.

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Friends are people who stick by you no matter what happens. They care about you. They love you. They understand you. They rejoice with you. They suffer with you.

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It will soon be that time of year again! Before you know it Thanksgiving and Christmas will be upon us and then the New Year.

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“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

The complexity and order in nature from the billions of bits of precise DNA information on our genomes(Psalm 139:16) to the life cycle dependency of organisms in our ecosystem (Psalm104:14) are proof of God. But beyond that, that we find beauty in creation reveals a personality of emotion, pleasure, and goodwill (Revelation 4:11; 1 Timothy6:17). God’s predominate trait is love. “God is love” (1 John 4:16). This is not a selfish love of self-gratification but is revealed in seeking the welfare and delight of mankind. It reveals itself in nature, in beauty, designs, and miraculous innovations that could not self-organize from random chaos (Ecclesiastes3:11).

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In an industrial accident, a piece of flying metal severed a nerve in a young man’s shoulder. It left an otherwise perfect arm hanging worse than useless, in a disconnected course with the rest of the body. It became a burden to the rest of the body, severed from communication with the brain.

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The world is filled with bad news. People have learned to feast on bad news for so long that one wonders if they would be contented to read only good news.

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The Way . . .

Jesus died to provide the way.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
“He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John5:12).
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).

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