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Good News Wants to Know … Who Gave You Your First Personal Bible?

The Good News
13 Aug 2018
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My first personal Bible was given to me in 1969 by a representative of “The Gideons international,” when I was inducted (drafted) into the United States Army. Reading from this Bible almost every day gave me the spiritual strength to carry out my military infantry duties while serving in Germany and Vietnam. O’Neal Dozier, Pastor, Worldwide Christian Center     My first personal Bible was given to me by paternal grandmother Ann Connor. At the time it didn’t mean much to me, but now I don’t have the words to express how grateful I am for the gift of a […]

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Grandparents Taking on The Role of Parents

Rob Hoskins
10 Aug 2018
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You know when you get a new car, all of a sudden you start to see the same make and model everywhere? Well, that is happening to me with all things grandparent as I look forward to becoming a granddad this summer. A segment from the NBC news special, “One Nation Overdosed” caught my attention as it focused on grandparents faced with the reality of raising their grandchildren. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2012, there were 2.7 million grandparents who had the primary responsibility to care for their grandchildren who lived with them. The number of grandparent-headed households […]

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Cross International Rebuilding Communities After Volcano

The Good News
8 Aug 2018
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Cross International and its ministry partners in Guatemala are launching a major community building effort to help families displaced by the Fuego Volcano eruption. The effort aims to provide new housing construction for 1,100 families with donor support. Because of the disaster, hundreds of people died and hundreds more remain missing. The thousands who fled struggled for days with hunger and homelessness, and most are now living in crowded shelters with little more than the clothing they wore when fleeing. Plans are underway to build 200 homes on donated land in a new community to be named Nueva Jerusalem. The […]

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Rock the Universe™ 2018: A Weekend of Fantastic Music and Spectacular Thrills

Lydia Hicks
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Florida’s largest Christian music festival, Rock the Universe™, returns on September 7 and 8 with a weekend of soul-stirring music, faith and fun! The event will showcase top GRAMMY, Dove and Billboard award-winning artists such as TobyMac and Casting Crowns. Pack your bags and get ready for a dazzling, entertaining and worshipful weekend with thrilling rides and rocking artists. You can enter for a chance to win tickets or the Grand Prize Rock the Universe™ prize pack for four at goodnewsfl.org/rtu2018. Imagine yourself riding among your favorite super heroes. Check. Then you shake hands with Optimus Prime. Check. Next thing, […]

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Hope Women’s Centers Opened New Fort Lauderdale Center

The Good News
3 Aug 2018
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Hope Women’s Centers has opened their doors at their new medical center location in Fort Lauderdale. Their lease was up at their previous Fort Lauderdale Center where they have seen patients for many years, and many renovations were needed to what was an already older building. So, they began looking and are now very happy to report that they opened their doors at their new medical center location. The most amazing news came when some of their staff came to pray over the new center before they opened to the public. “We invited Hope’s very first Center Director Margy Richardson […]

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What is Your Teachability Factor?

Dr. Gary Hewins
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Humility seems to be teachability’s first cousin. These two family members seem to hang out together a lot. They are almost always doing something together. If you are fairly teachable, then you are fairly humble. If you are truly humble, then you have things to learn. As you think about your attitudes and opinions, consider your level of teachability and your level of flexibility. Dr. Ken Boa has a name for a condition that people who are less than teachable and flexible endure. Boa calls this rigidity “hardening of the categories.” Some people tend to prematurely place others in categories. […]

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Loves Me Loves Me Not

Elizabeth Mitchell
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“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (Isaiah 53:3 KJV). Lashes from one who should love us lacerate like sharp fangs. Rejection curls its snarling lips, extends its cavernous jaws and clamps down in the way a rabid wolf rips apart its prey. Sometimes the bite is a sarcastic slur; often it bears the mark of death in its grip. Joseph’s brothers knew how to bite so did a few of King David’s sons. Jacob […]

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A “Beautifully Broken” World in the True Story of Three Unlikely Families

Lydia Hicks
2 Aug 2018
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How far will a dad go to save his family? How can a teenage daughter express her deepest nightmares and free herself from the bondage of the past? What makes a man leave his entire family in a war-torn country and follow “God’s calling” to build a new life he cannot yet see? These are three primary questions that “Beautifully Broken,” based on a true life story, answers. With major actors such as Scott William Winters (“Lethal Weapon” television series), Benjamin Onyango (“God’s Not Dead,”) and renowned Christian artists Toby McKeehan and Michael W. Smith, “Beautifully Broken” is a dramatic display of God’s […]

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Upcoming Faith-Based Films Will Shine As Lights In A Dark Place

Stanley Goldenberg
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Summer is a time when Hollywood rolls out some of its biggest blockbusters. Millions of people flock to theaters for these films. Some of these are mindless entertainment, but many carry messages – positive or negative – and most contain content that is objectionable for people of faith. However, in August, as the sun begins to set on the Hollywood Summer Blockbuster season, the sun begins to rise on the Fall Faith-Based movie season. And this upcoming faith-based movie season has an impressive line-up of diverse firms, many based on true stories, and each of which has biblically-based messages that […]

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Residents Celebrate Independence Day at New Facility

The Good News
1 Aug 2018
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On the Fourth of July, residents of Symphony at the Waterways in Fort Lauderdale celebrated our country’s birthday with decorations, music, entertainment, delicious barbecue and a fishing contest. They also heard from Nikolas Kimaz, a candidate for U.S. Congress Florida District 22. Symphony at the Waterways is an Assisted Living and Memory Care facility centrally located on East Oakland Park Blvd. on the Inland Waterway in view of the Atlantic Ocean. Residents are involved in all kinds of activities, including nightly movies, daily exercise with Thai Chi and yoga among the choices, resident chorus entitled “Alive and Singing,” lectures on […]

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