August 2002 Vol.5, No. 7 Contents What Do You Mean, "Under God"?; by Cecil E. Maranville Restoration: Hope Beyond the Headlines by Darris McNeely Money Won't Solve These Problems by Melvin Rhodes When Is Enough...Enough? by Darris McNeely In Brief... World News Reviews by Cecil E. Maranville, John Ross Schroeder and Jim Tuck This Is the Way...Getting Underneath the Skin by Robin Webber August '02 Main Restoration: Hope Beyond the Headlines What a summer when it comes to headlines! Just like the stock market, our hearts, hopes and dreams have gone up and down on an incredible roller coaster ride of news events. Many have affected us personally and others have allowed us to rejoice as one big global neighborhood. America's stock market has tumbled, taking with it billions of dollars of investment savings, which for many were the hopes and dreams of a secure retirement. Today more than half of Americans are invested in the stock market. The fall in stock value rivals the great October 1929 Wall Street crash, which led to the Great Depression. The biggest bankruptcy in history is proclaimed as WorldCom restructures its debt and tries to survive. Instead of seeing executives leap from windows, we see them hauled away in handcuffs to face charges of theft, deceit and corruption. Throughout the Western states, raging forest fires have burned millions of acres, destroying homes and other personal property. The force of these fires is staggering. Drought continues in many areas where below average amounts of rain not only limit the crops of one season but also fail to replenish rapidly diminishing water tables, threatening whole regions for years to come. Even seasoned worldly-wise commentators use biblical-type descriptors such as "signs," "portents" and "end time," while trying to come to grips with the news. Terrorist bombings continue in Israel. President Bush was furious when American students studying at Hebrew University were killed in a bomb blast on July 31. No one, it seems, has any idea how to bring the Palestinians and Israelis together in peace. Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0208/restoration0208.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "Hope Beyond the Headlines" Other Articles by Darris McNeely Terrorism, answer to: _God's Wake-Up Call _Praying More Than Ever _Dealing Effectively With a World of Terrorism and Tragedy _A Cure for Code Orange _War & Peace Natural disasters: _World News Review November 1998 _World News Review December 1998 _The Message of Mitch _The Cause of Natural Disasters _Red Cross Warns of "Super Disasters" _World News Review November 2003 _Krakatoa -- Preparing for the Future? _World News Review June 2004 _In the Aftermath of Katrina: What Can We Learn? _Why Don't We Prepare? _Earthquake in Hawaii Shows We Are Still Not Prepared for a Disaster _Disasters to Hit the United States _Did Jesus Christ Foretell Devastating Storms? _Superdisasters: Growing Weather Danger? _Homeland Security: What Crucial Piece Is the United States Missing? _Natural Disasters: A Biblical Perspective U.S. economy: _The Achilles' Heel of Global Banking _Global Economics: From Kosovo to McDonalds _Deutschland AG Versus Corporate America _World News Review Dec 2000 _World News Review Aug 2001 _Greed Is the News of the Day _Mortgage Bubble About to Burst? _A Looming EU-U.S. Trade War? _World News Review July 2004 _U.S. Troop Withdrawals -- What Do They Mean? _The Source of America's Bounty _A Downsized Lifestyle Is Coming - Will You Make the Adjustment? _When the Gas Pumps in Europe Run Dry _The Housing Bubble: Making of a Banking Crisis? _Gross Domestic Product: Is It the Measuring Stick of Success? _Energy Costs, the Mideast and Illegals Are Americans' Biggest Concerns _Are Things Really Better Than We Think? _World News Review January 2007 _Is America in Financial Decline? _Generation Debt _Are We Living in a "9/10" Economy? _What's Behind the Falling Dollar? _World News Review February 2008 _World News Review March/April 2008 _Coping With the Current Housing Crisis _The Wealth of a Nation _"In God We Trust" _What Will the Next President Face? _Farewell to America as a Financial World Power _Mama Told Me... _Prayer for Success _Waves of Destruction _The Meaning of the Mortgage Meltdown _Map: Captivity Routes _The Global Economy's Uncertain Future _Sept. 11 Aftermath Highlights U.S. Strengths and Weaknesses _When Do I Get a Break? _Our World Is Rapidly Changing - in Ways Foretold by Bible Prophecy _World News and Trends - November/December 2006 _What Will It Mean for the West if Radical Islam Triumphs? _Are We Living in a '9/10' Economy? _Coping With a Growing Economic Crisis _World News and Trends - May/June 2008 _The Growing Economic Crisis: A Biblical Perspective _World News & Trends - November/December 2008 _Dealing With Fear _When Nations Fall _Hands of Confusion _Could the Dollar Fall? _Vantage Point _America's Hope for Recovery: Real or Merely an Illusion? _An American Thanksgiving _Discerning This Time Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site