Activated Magazine: 2005 Activated Issues
January 2005
Want to ace the coming year? You can! Jesus loves you and wants to see you succeed even more than you do. He has all the answers and wants to be your personal tutor.
February 2005
Never has there been so much importance put on expressing individuality as in today's commerce and media-driven world. But in our quest for self-identity, are we really just conforming?
March 2005
This Easter issue of Activated contains a personal message to you from Jesus in which He explains His true passion and offers you the key to "freedom, peace of mind, joy, happiness, and true love--now and forever."
April 2005
The skies are black with clouds—the clouds of the smoke of war. The ground is red with blood—the blood of innocent lives caught in the inferno and torments of war. Villages, towns, and cities are being destroyed. Poor and innocent civilians, including small children, are being deprived of basic necessities. Families are being torn apart, watching their loved ones die in pain and agony. Is any cause worth so great a cost in human life? Are injustices on the part of one government corrected by the injustices of another? What government is righteous and just and worthy of judging another?
May 2005
Discover how to have a happy home and successful relationships, as well as where to go for that all-important ingredient, real love.
June 2005
Don’t live in eternal insecurity. Find out what the Bible says about salvation and claim what is rightfully yours the instant you receive Jesus.
July 2005
- You are what you “eat”
- Good or Bad - who’s to say?
- The Rise, Reign, and Wars of the Antichrist - Part 2
Somebody once said, “You are what you read.” It’s like the saying about health, “You are what you eat,” physically. Well, you are what you read, mentally and spiritually. And the same is true of movies, TV, music, and other forms of input, like the Internet and computer games. Tell me what kind of input someone enjoys most, and I can usually tell what that person’s spiritual condition is like.
God created people with a spiritual hunger for truth—insights and ideas that will feed their souls, bring them closer to Him by helping them better understand Him and His loving ways, and inspire them to live better lives. But sad to say, a lot of people today have developed perverted spiritual appetites through reading and viewing the wrong kinds of things, similar to what happens when people develop an appetite for junk food and sweets, and lose their appetite for good wholesome food.
August 2005
Job-related stress has become a “worldwide epidemic” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). So has depression. And the two are linked: Chronic stress can lead to depression. What’s a person to do? Believe it or not, the safest, surest cure for both stress and depression is a strong personal connection with our Creator. He made us, so He understands our needs better than anyone. What’s more, He has it within His power to supply those needs. He loved us enough to send His only Son to save our souls, so surely He can and will do whatever is needed to save our sanity. He’s just waiting for us to turn to Him.
September 2005
People have been both fascinated and mystified by their dreams for as long as they’ve been dreaming, which is always. Questions about the origin, nature, and meaning of our dreams are nearly as numerous and diverse as the people who dream, which is everyone.
Scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists and researchers of the paranormal have all weighed in. Case histories of dreams that foretold future events or resulted in scientific or technological discoveries have been documented.
How does God figure into all this?
October 2005
How the world has changed in the last 100 years! We’ve gone from horse and carriage to space shuttles, from the one-room schoolhouse to surfing the Internet, from the family farm to a global economy. But all this advancement has come at a cost. Some would argue that it’s costing us our collective soul.
November 2005
Want to be one of the happiest people around, as well as one of the happiest people to be around? You can be!
December 2005
The five personal accounts of Christmas experiences in this issue could hardly be more diverse. Each of the stories makes its own point, yet they all have one thing in common: They are all much more about giving than receiving. And it’s not the “that made me feel so good” kind of giving, either, but the kind that does some genuine and lasting good in this tired old world of ours.
