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Table of Contents
- Love Compels to Discipline, but Law Compels to Punish • November 14, 2024
- Love, Don’t Hate, the Liars • November 9, 2020
- Love: A New Command – Part 1 • November 2, 2023
- Love: A New Command – Part 2 • November 9, 2023
- Loving Others First • December 7, 2007
- Loving Others — What Does It Look Like? • February 4, 2020
- Maintaining a Healthy Brain • February 9, 2008
- Manicures and Spas: Should I Feel Guilty • October 22, 2010
- Marijuana – The Science Behind the Smoke • February 6, 2018
- Marijuana – What Affect Does It Have? • May 20, 2010
- Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage • July 17, 2009
- Mass Delusion: How It Happens and How to Protect Your Mind • January 13, 2022
- Mass Shootings — The Real Cause • August 13, 2019
- Medical Marijuana and Psychiatric Illness – A Call to Action • January 21, 2013
- Meekness Is Not Weakness • April 28, 2022
- Meeting in Person During the Pandemic • September 16, 2020
- Merry CHRISTmas • December 23, 2021
- Metaphors of the Atonement • April 23, 2011
- Miracle Healing Via Dead Spirits? What’s Going On? • May 7, 2010
- Misunderstanding the Truth • June 19, 2009
- Modern Science Upends the Scopes Monkey Trial Verdict • October 31, 2024
- Mother’s Stress & Her Child’s Brain • January 11, 2011
- Music and the Brain • May 8, 2011
- My Sin Is Not as Bad as Your Sin • April 22, 2021
- Naaman: An Object Lesson for Us • December 21, 2023
- Near Death Experiences • February 6, 2009
- Nebuchadnezzar—Lessons in God’s Grace • December 14, 2023
- New Wine in Old Skins • February 20, 2019
- No One Escapes the War Between Good and Evil • May 19, 2022
- Only God Is Infallible • July 7, 2022
- Open Theism • November 1, 2008
- Our Resistance and God’s Persistence • January 4, 2024
- Our Two Natures: Gaining the Victory! • June 20, 2010
- Overcoming Evil • March 13, 2025
- Parables of Jesus – The Overarching Theme • August 25, 2020
- Parents Represent God to Their Children • June 8, 2023
- Pastors Faithful to Jesus Think for Themselves • January 16, 2025
- Peace and Victory When Evil Abounds • January 5, 2023
- Peace in a Violent World • February 14, 2019
- Penal Substitution versus Design Law – What’s the Difference? • July 18, 2018
- Penal Substitution: Modern Baal Worship • May 12, 2020
- Perfecting Christian Character • January 22, 2012
- Politics and the Gospel • July 6, 2023
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • March 25, 2020
- Prayer Beads: The Upside and Dangers • April 3, 2009
- Pre- or Post-Tribulation Rapture? • October 17, 2019
- Premarital Sex – Should I Stop When I Come To Christ? • October 28, 2010
- Prepare! The King of the North Is Coming • February 24, 2022
- Priests and Child Abuse — A Predictable Result • September 5, 2018
- Psalms 23 – The Path to Eternal Life • February 11, 2013
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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