Are the ice caps melting?
theregister.co.uk - 08/07/2008

USA - The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict.

Merkel Warns Food Crisis Could 'Destabilize Nations'
spiegel.de - 07/07/2008

JAPAN - The G-8 summit in Tokyo, which opens Monday, faces a number of alarming problems, and Germany's chancellor has sent a letter to other leaders of the world's industrialized nations arguing that the sudden rise in the price of food needs urgent attention.

Australia climate report 'like a disaster novel'
telegraph.co.uk - 07/07/2008

AUSTRALIA - Australia is facing severe drought and heat waves on an unprecedented scale, a "disaster novel" of a government report has warned.

Protests ahead of G8 summit in Japan
telegraph.co.uk - 07/07/2008

JAPAN - Protesters took to the streets of cities on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido again on Sunday, but were kept in check by a watchful local police force as the leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations arrived for their annual summit.

'Big Brother' government costs us £20billion
telegraph.co.uk - 07/07/2008

UK - The cost of Britain's "surveillance society" measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today. The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras.

Financial market losses could top 1,600 billion dollars
sonntagszeitung.ch - 07/07/2008

GENEVA - The global financial crisis could lead to losses of 1,600 billion dollars for financial institutes, according a report in the Swiss Sunday newspaper SonntagsZeitung.

'Gay talks' deadlocks scrub work
BBC - 07/07/2008

ENGLAND - Scrub clearance work on the Downs area of Bristol has been delayed because of complaints from gay men who use the area for sex, the city council said.

'Stop wasting food', urges Brown
BBC - 07/07/2008

JAPAN - Britons must stop wasting food in an effort to help combat rising living costs, Gordon Brown has said as he travelled to the G8 summit in Japan.

The end of our National Church
The Spectator - 07/07/2008

ENGLAND - On the eve of the General Synod and the Lambeth Conference, Theo Hobson says that the sleeping giant of evangelical and orthodox Anglicanism has been awoken by liberal agitation and Rowan Williams's failed leadership. The church is damaged beyond repair

Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit
telegraph.co.uk - 07/07/2008

ENGLAND - Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops.

Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
AP - 07/07/2008

WASHINGTON - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.

Credit crisis: Negative equity threat spreading for homeowners
telegraph.co.uk - 06/07/2008

UK - One in eight homeowners who took out a home loan since the start of last year are already in negative equity, with tens of thousands now exposed to financial trouble from falling house prices.

G-8 Leaders Face Economic Woes
time.com - 06/07/2008

SAPPORO, JAPAN - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.

The 11-year-old girl whose beauty treatments cost £300 a month
dailymail.co.uk - 06/07/2008

ENGLAND - She wore her first set of false eyelashes at eight, and her beauty treatments cost £300 a month. A sick abuse of an 11-year-old? "No", insists Sasha's mother, "I just want her to be famous..."

Bad News Plagues Beijing Olympics
bloomberg.com - 06/07/2008

CHINA - Beijing Olympic organizers, struggling to clear their algae-choked sailing venue and facing a possible locust invasion, say these latest challenges to next month's games are no "major problem."

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)