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| A Crusade for SANITY | February 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: We're living at the end of an age. Social and ethnic divisions in our nations are worsening. The Western world's spiritual and moral deterioration is accelerating. A recent survey of Northern Illinois University students found that 25 percent believed that sexual abstinence actually permitted sexual practices similar to those of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah (The New Your Times, Jan. 7, 1996), All around us it seems that violence and even terrorism have become accepted as commonplace. It is dawning on increasing millions of people that "something has got to give." |
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| Act on the Truth! | Oct-Nov 95 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: With this issue, The World Ahead magazine begins it's third year of publication. Some readers have been with us for almost two years. Has The World Ahead challenged your assumptions or touched your daily life? Does God seem more real to you than before you started reading this magazine? Does Bible prophecy seem more meaningful? Most important of all, have you started to build a close relationship with God and with the true Jesus Christ of the Bible? |
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| A Key to Eternity | Jan-Feb 98 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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Our lead article in this issue is about a topic that is truly a "key" to eternity. None of us is perfect---God knows that. But despite our weaknesses and imperfections, learning to contact the true God of Creation in a way that brings genuine answers is something that everyone needs and nearly everyone wants. The March 31, 1997, issue of Newsweek magazine ran an important feature article on prayer. |
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| A Key to Success---Now and Forever | April 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: There is one key character trait that can serve all of us well---whether in the secular pursuits of this life, or in our quest for eternal life. It is a trait that is increasingly neglected in our laid-back, pleasure-oriented society. Yet the exercise of this character trait can lift any ordinary man or woman from the level of mediocrity to the level of excellence? I am talking about the cultivated capacity to go all out---to make the second effort---to be ZEALOUS in the way we live our lives. |
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| America at the Crossroads? | January 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: As we head into 1996, the United States of America is at a significant crossroads. Since World War I, we have been recognized as the most powerful and wealthy nation. In many ways, we have been a beacon of light to other nations around the globe. Now all that is rapidly changing. |
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| Can You Worship Christ in VAIN? | May 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: Think this over. People spend time and effort to determine what clothes they should buy, what car they should drive. A wise young man and woman spend many hours over a period of months or years getting to really know each other's character before they are willing to make the commitment to marry. |
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| Do You Know How to "Watch"? | Nov-Dec 98 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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On the World Ahead television program and in the pages of this magazine, we are constantly encouraging you to obey this command of Christ: "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36). This instruction was given just after Jesus had been detailing point by point the world events that would lead up to His Second Coming. |
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| How Easily Are You Fooled? | Sep-Oct 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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We are daily, almost hourly, bombarded by lies, half-truths and exaggerations. Yet countless millions of human beings tend to believe whatever they are told. As P.T. Barnum reportedly said, "there's a sucker born every minute!" For instance the tobacco industry has managed to lie and lie and LIE---"fooling" millions into believing that no serious harm comes from smoking cigarettes. Yet some of the top tobacco executives have for many years been respected "pillars" in their communities and even in their churches! |
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| How Vital Is Truth | May-Jun 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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Is this "come easy, go easy" age of compromise, Truth is often a major casualty. People are generally more anxious to be accepted and to "fit in" than they are to stand firmly on principle/ This may not appear to harm us much in some secular issues---though in the field of space travel even a seemingly small error could cause a spacecraft to miss landing on Mars by millions of miles! |
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| Prove All Things | Sep-Oct 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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How did you come to believe what you believe? Did you investigate and prove the doctrines taught by your church? Or did you just grow up in your church or denomination ASSUMING that its teachings were based on the Bible? Making careless assumptions that may have no biblical foundation whatsoever is one of the greatest dangers facing modern religionists! Jesus said, "For many will come in my name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many" (Matt. 24:5 KJV). |
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| Should You Stay at Home to Worship God? | Mar-Apr 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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In the confusion caused by the virtual breakup of a formerly Bible-believing Church, thousands of sincere people have decided to just "sit it out" at home. Some even call themselves the "Stay at-Home Church." |
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| Should You Stay Where God has "Placed" You? | Feb-Mar 95 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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Many sincere people have the idea that they should just "stay put" in whatever church or organization they are in. People are creatures of habit. Familiar faces and church rituals encourage people to "stay put." Some ministers, whose congregations are bored or disgruntled by their lifeless teachings, try to hold on to their people by telling them, "You should stay where God has placed y ou"! |
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| The Character Issue | Nov-Dec 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro:
many surveys show that Americans think their leaders---especially their presidents---should possess good character. Yet when it comes to specifics, most Americans tend to vote for the man or party they agree with on the pocketbook issues---the issues affecting their economic or social well-being. The nominee of the conservative major party seems to indicate that concern over the huge issue of abortion---the taking of human life---is less important than, say, defending the tobacco industry. |
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| The Cult of Materialism | Jun 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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We are living in the most sensuous, worldly generation that has arisen for many centuries. Today's society is obsessed with materialism. Our world WORSHIPS material things and places their acquisition as the first priority in life. Some of this "gimme" obsession does rub off---even on professing Christians. The Apostle John wrote, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world---the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life---is not of the Father but is of the world" (1 John :2:15-16) |
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| The Importance of ZEAL | September 95 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: Most of us have seen the television images. Multiple thousands of Muslims in Iraq or Iran screaming at the top of their lungs "Death to America! Down with the Great Satan!" |
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| The Way of Give | Sep-Oct 98 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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There are two fundamental ways of life---the way of get and the way of give. Although putting it this way may sound too simplified, the outcome of each of these two ways of life is profoundly different. We have all been encouraged by people who are "givers." They have a genuinely caring attitude---a mindset to help those around them. Yet while enjoying their human warmth, many of us "tune out" the message in their example, often considering them impractical or even naive because they don't seem to be "looking out for number one." |
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| The Way of Peace They Have Not Known | May-Jun 99 WA p. 3 | ? | No |
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Unspeakable tragedy has once again rocked the Balkan region. For hundreds of years, this area, the birthplace of World War I, has been a minefield of ethnic tension and hostility. The last explosion happened between the Serbs and Croatians over Bosnia. Yet as awful as that was, this time it may end up being worse. Reports from Kosovo---a Yugoslavian province of mainly ethnic Albanians seeking political autonomy---tell the horror story of armed conflict, forced marches, boarding of trains to concentration camps and mass executions of Kosovar Albanian men, ages 16 to 60, by Serbians. Not since World War II has Europe seen such large-scale brutality and genocide. |
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| Total Surrender | March 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro: Do you believe in the true God---the God of the Bible? If so, it is vital that you come to understand the one basic attitude that God looks for in people. What is it? In this world's confused Christianity, many will tell you that God wants us, above all, to "accept Jesus." |
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| Watch Jerusalem | Jul-Aug 96 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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Tough-talking Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Prime Minister of Israel, favors taking a harder line in the peace negotiations with the Arabs. And He refuses to divide Israel's "eternal, undivided capital city" in order to give back East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. So tensions in the Middle East are rising! |
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| WHICH Jesus Christ? | Jul-Aug 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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All over the world, evangelists and ministers are regularly holding meetings at which they exhort audiences to "accept Christ." The listeners are often urged to "give their hearts to the Lord" or "make a decision for Christ." But a vital question that very few bother to ask, let alone answer, is which Christ? |
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| Why Are We Different? | Jan-Feb 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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What makes the World Ahead magazine unique among all publications? Why are we truly "different"? What gives us the "right" to be right? As thousands of you newer subscribers browse through the pages of this magazine, you will note a perspective that is found virtually nowhere else. We write of biblical prophecy in a way that shows it power and immanency. We explain the PURPOSE of life itself and the LAWS of successful living in a manner that conveys AUTHORITY. How and why do we do this? |
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| Will Christ Return Soon? | Nov-Dec 97 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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On Sunday, August 31, most of us learned the tragic news of the death of Princess Diana. Later that same weeks, word came of another gruesome terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Six people were reportedly killed and almost 200 were injured. As a result, the Arab-Israeli "peace process" was put on hold yet again. There seems to be no shortage of bad news on a worldwide scale....What does it all mean? Is there some common denominator to the barrage of tragic headlines that seems to assault us on a weekly basis? Could it be that prophetic events are speeding up? Is the return of the true Jesus Christ of the Bible going to occur in this generation? |
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| Will You Just Follow the Crowd? | May-June 98 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
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Tens of millions in Western democratic nations have been led to believe that the safest and best thing to do is to "follow the crowd." In fact, it's almost an assumption of the democratic system. The unspoken idea is that the "majority is always right." But is the majority always right? The largest single nation on earth is China, with more than 1.2 billion inhabitants. Yet very few Christians live there. |
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| Will You "Walk in the Light"? | Mar-Apr 98 WA p. 3 | R. Meredith | No |
| Intro:
We constantly read today that people are searching for genuine "values" or "standards of conduct." And as we've repeatedly pointed out in these pages, the basic standards to which Jesus constantly referred are the Ten Commandments. These foundational points of the magnificent spiritual law of God tell us how to love our Creator and how to love our fellow man. And this law is even more meaningful when we see how it is magnified in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7) and throughout the entire New Testament. |
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