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Table of Contents
- Does Sin Contaminate The Sanctuary? Part 1 • September 26, 2008
- Does Sin Contaminate The Sanctuary? Part 2 • September 27, 2008
- Donald Trump and Christians: What’s the Attraction? • January 22, 2020
- Dr. Jennings Answers a Concern About Materials and Comments Being Racist • December 5, 2024
- Dr. Jennings Examines the Arguments and Methods of a Critic • August 1, 2024
- Dr. Jennings’ 25 Cannots • March 6, 2025
- Drinking the Living Water • November 28, 2024
- Dying to Live—Lesson from the Seed • October 20, 2022
- Dying-Rising Heroes and How Satan Is Deceiving the World • December 18, 2019
- Earth: The Home of the Righteous • December 17, 2010
- Effective Communication • August 5, 2012
- Eight Signs of Jesus’ Soon Return • December 24, 2020
- Elisha and the Shunammite’s Son—An Object Lesson About Christ • December 29, 2022
- Embracing or Denying the Power of God • March 27, 2025
- Ephesians 4: Bible Wisdom for Today’s Problems • September 28, 2020
- Eternal Fire • May 26, 2010
- Every Eye Shall See Him • September 20, 2008
- Evidence and History or Claims and Wonders • April 13, 2023
- Evidence of a Spherical Earth • May 24, 2020
- Exegesis and the Thought Police • March 13, 2019
- Explaining Christ to Muslims • January 21, 2011
- Faith and Miracles • July 25, 2008
- Faith to Triumph Over Every Fear • October 14, 2021
- False Allegations about Substitution and Christ’s Mission • January 2, 2014
- Fasting: What’s the Point? • July 4, 2010
- Fear Is For Children • May 30, 2008
- Fear Not the New Year • December 28, 2007
- Fear: the Medium of Death; Love: the Elixir of Life • March 16, 2014
- Fighting the Good Fight • July 27, 2023
- Finding Peace when Life Is Stressful • May 15, 2019
- Fire from the Angel of Revelation 14 • June 1, 2023
- Five Requirements for Physical Life: An Object Lesson for Spiritual Life • July 13, 2023
- Five Steps to Reduce Stress, Improve Immunity, and Decrease Your Risk of Coronavirus Infection • March 28, 2020
- Fixing Our Eyes Upon Jesus • May 23, 2024
- Flat-Earthers: A Lesson in How We Deceive Ourselves • May 20, 2020
- Following Blind Guides in the World Today • February 10, 2022
- Forgiveness in the Non-Penal View • September 24, 2013
- Forgiveness: What Is It? • May 22, 2009
- Forgiving Self – Why Is It So Hard? • December 2, 2012
- Free to Disagree: The Protests, the Anthem, and Free Speech • September 30, 2017
- Free Will or Predestination—What Is the Truth? • November 4, 2021
- Freewill, Foreknowledge, and Open Theism • November 14, 2008
- Friends With Jesus • April 11, 2024
- Friendship with God • March 20, 2009
- Genesis 3: Did God Punish for Sin? • July 31, 2009
- Genuine Intimacy – What is it and Can Singles Experience it? • July 8, 2012
- God Foreknows and Predestines—What Does It Mean? • February 17, 2022
- God Is In Control – of What? • September 6, 2019
- God is Love – All the Time • July 21, 2011
- God Made Manifest in Christ • December 30, 2021
Chronological
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The First Death: A Manifestation of God’s Grace
The imposed-law view understands death as being inflicted by God as punishment for sin. Those who want to present God in the best possible light rightly reject the idea that God is the source of death or would act in a manner as His enemy. The problem is a misunderstanding of imposed law, design law, and differentiate between first death and second death.
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What Makes the Sabbath Holy?
Are all of God’s laws, including the fourth commandment, truly design laws, protocols built into reality, or are some of His laws arbitrary, simply made-up rules imposed by God by His declaring it to be so?
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God With Us—Forever!
Be in awe, stand amazed, let your heart be humbled in adoration and love, for our Creator God is not ashamed of us and will never be ashamed of us.
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The Psychodynamics of Saul Becoming Paul
The experiences of Saul of Tarsus (up through the events on the Damascus Road) are quite instructive to us when considering how God works through events and circumstances to present opportunities for people to experience His healing and how He works to win us to salvation.
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Storms and Other Disasters: Are They From God?
In the aftermath of 2024’s hurricane Helene and other extreme events, multiple people have asked me whether these storms are from God, the devil, or just the natural processes of nature. Let’s find out.
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Dr. Jennings Answers a Concern About Materials and Comments Being Racist
I thought it might be helpful to post my response to a passionate, but mature and reasonable, email I received in response to my Critical Race Theory magazine.
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Drinking the Living Water
Let’s examine some of the Bible’s object lessons about water that can teach us about the living water Jesus offers us.
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Who Was Ellen G. White?
Regardless of whether she had a special gift of prophecy or whether she was merely a committed Christian sharing wisdom, we should be determining for ourselves whether or not what she wrote is true—that is the only relevant question. If what she wrote is true, then we are blessed by following the truth. If it is false, then we are harmed by following lies.
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Love Compels to Discipline, but Law Compels to Punish
What do you think about not only God’s nature being love, but also God’s law being love? Does love function by force, coercion, threat, and inflicted punishments? Can you generate love in people by making up rules for them and then threatening to punish them if they disobey your rules?
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How Honest People Spread Lies
What is the difference between an honest and a dishonest person if they are both telling the same falsehood?
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Modern Science Upends the Scopes Monkey Trial Verdict
For the 100th anniversary of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial (July 10–21, 1925) in Dayton, TN, USA, I was asked to make comments at a joint meeting of the Southern Psychiatric Association and Tennessee Psychiatric Association about the events as they were depicted in the 1960 film Inherit the Wind.
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How to Get Good People to Do Evil
How can the devil trick people who want to do good into choosing to cooperate, participate, and practice evil upon their fellow citizens?
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