You want good news? Here's the only good news there really is, and it is in two parts:
PART ONE
While we were indulging in our slime pit of immorality and depravity, and paying no mind to God whatsoever, out of the depths of His own great love for us, He betstirred Himself to come among us in frail flesh, made His appeal to us in person that we should be reconciled in our relationship to Him, and topped it all off by giving His own Self as the atoning sacrifice that sealed the deal.
PART TWO:
Participation in this plan of Reconciliation to God is contigent only upon personal belief that it is as I describe; a simple decision addressed to The Almighty affirming, "I believe You did that in my stead."
THAT is good news not because it is an end in itself, but because it is the only avenue of access to a beginning that does not end in death.
OK. My bad.