Signs of the Times

May 2007 Issue | Vol 122 No 5

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Our Times: May 2007

Signs magazine has been helping people take the next step in their Christian journey for more than 120 years.

Bigger portion sizes make you eat more, even if you think the food tastes terrible, according to a new study from Cornell University. Portion size is now thought to be as influential as taste, in determining whether we overeat.

Am I a Monkey's Nephew?

While some people suggest you are what you eat, David Edgren claims you are what you believe.

Life-Giving Water

Water is easily our most precious natural resource. It is fitting that life begins, as Graeme Loftus demonstrates, in the water.

A Culture of Self-destruction

Doctors, lawyers and television commercials tell us that drinking is destructive to our health, families and employment. Yet, as John Ashton reveals, alcohol continues to escalate in popularity.

10 Ways Alcohol Wrecks Your Health

Health-and-fitness writer Andrew Cate looks at some of the more serious consequences to your health from drinking alcohol.

What Is Prayer?

We often limit God to our wish-list, and ourselves to quick visits with Him. Barry Oliver explains the reality and responsibility of sincere prayer.

Seeing Clearly

Spectacle lenses may be cleaned any way you like. Commercial liquids give a good result.

Burnout or a Break

Recently I've noticed that I am struggling to get out of bed in the morning.

Growing in Christ

Loren Seibold looks at what it means to be "born again" and how to continue the Christian growth.

William Tyndale: The Sword and the Word

Arthur Patrick explores the lifework of William Tyndale, who said, "As a good surgeon cutteth away a putrefyed member, for the love he hath for the hole body, least it infecte the others members adjoynge to it."