{"id":1388,"date":"2025-04-21T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:42:53","slug":"issue-20-2-mar-apr-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"Issue 20-2 Mar\/Apr 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/FlipBook20-2\/mobile\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"599\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20-2-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20-2-cover.jpg 599w, https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20-2-cover-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>David Andrew advises us to \u2018Mind the gap\u2019!<\/li><li>Steve Maltz examines barriers to blessings &#8211; how the Church is losing out<\/li><li>Chuck and Karen Cohen asks why the world condemns Israel in its war against terror<\/li><li>Kameel Majdali looks at what was really going on in the Los Angeles fires<\/li><li>John Maclaughlan is learning to trust in God\u2019s Word<\/li><li>Rosemary Bamber asks who are we allowing to influence us?<\/li><li>David Jones asks who can we trust? And Who do we follow?<\/li><li>Malcolm Baker looks at the certaintiy of death and the impact that should have on our lives!<\/li><li>Charles Gardner asks why US evanglicals \u2018get\u2019 Israel and UK ones mostly don\u2019t<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Philip Wren is preparing for a wedding &#8211; ours!<\/li><li>Alexander MacLaren encourages us to focus on Jesus only.<\/li><li>And finally, we have report of the late Margaret Baker\u2019s visit to Israel 25 years ago.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the full magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/FlipBook20-2\/mobile\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: David Andrew advises us to \u2018Mind the gap\u2019! Steve Maltz examines barriers to blessings &#8211; how the Church is losing out Chuck [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}