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Table of Contents
- Does Sexual Arousal Outside Marriage Damage the Brain? August 18, 2010
- 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
- Elijah Object Lessons for God’s End-time People April 10, 2025
- Elisha and the Shunammite’s Son—An Object Lesson About Christ December 29, 2022
- Ellen G. White and the Gut-Brain Connection April 24, 2025
- 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
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The World’s Wisdom Is Foolishness
“Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” (1 Corinthians 1:20 NIV84). What is the basis of all wisdom? God and the knowledge of God, which means His character, His design laws, His methods, purposes, protocols – how reality works and why.
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Isaiah One: A Message for the Church Today
Isaiah is called the gospel prophet, the prophet who brings the good news. It’s in the book of Isaiah that we find the beautiful description of the coming Messiah, who becomes a real human: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end (9:6, 7 NIV84).
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Eight Signs of Jesus’ Soon Return
It is Christmas, the time we celebrate Jesus first advent. Yet, while we give thanks for Jesus birth and victory as our Savior 2,000 years ago, our ultimate longing is in His second advent – and the Bible is filled with promises that Jesus is coming again. So, let’s this holiday not only celebrate the birth of our Savior, but look with longing expectation at the signs of His soon return.
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The Christian and Culture: Is All Culture Equally Healthy?
It is the Christmas season, and as we celebrate the birth of Jesus, God’s only Son, sent to save the world from sin, consider what that means. It means that Jesus came to win our hearts and minds back to trust, so that we will leave behind everything of this world that is out of harmony with heaven and trust Him and follow Him into a kingdom of love, truth, and eternal freedom.
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Understanding Bible Commentaries Through Design Law
Over the years, I have received repeated requests to help people understand, through a design-law lens, quotations from various Bible commentators that can easily sound penal-legal. Below is an example of one such quotation from a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, followed by my comments explaining how her concept are best understood through a design-law perspective.
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The Damaging Effects of Social Isolation During COVID-19
Now that the election is over, I hope we can have reasonable and rational discussions about the various governmental responses to COVID-19 and their impact on society. From the beginning of this pandemic, I have been critical of the way various government officials have responded and dealt with this problem.
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The Temptations of Jesus: A Lesson for Us
According to Scripture, Jesus was tempted “in every way just as we are yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15 NIV84). As we praise God for the victory of His Son, we can simultaneously examine how the devil approached our Savior and discover the evil tactics that he uses against us.
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The Law of Liberty and Society Today
My first book, Could It Be This Simple? A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind, was published in 2007. In it, I described for the first time the law of liberty, the principle of freedom upon which God created reality to operate. I described how this law is, like gravity, a constant that works whether one believes in it or not and that just like gravity, it is testable – there are reproducible and unavoidable consequences when we violate liberty.
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Love, Don’t Hate, the Liars
This morning, I read about Jesus’ trial and crucifixion from the gospel of John and was struck at the poignant lessons that apply to us today. The religious and political leaders conspired for months to mislead the people about Jesus and prepare the nation for the moment they would strike. They had their “media pundits” spread misinformation about the Messiah. They misrepresented His actions as being of the devil (Matthew 12:24).
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The Christian and Post-Election Blues
It is Friday, October 30, 2020; in four days, the United States will elect its next president, and I, like the rest of the nation, don’t know who is going to win.
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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Poison or Protection?
Back in 2014, I wrote a blog responding to the email below, but as truth is unfolding and I continue to learn, I have discovered new insights that have expanded my understanding of this question about the Tree of Knowledge, and I want to share those new insights with you here.
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Godly vs Ungodly Methods of Pursuing Social Justice
My blogs during 2020 have sought to make evermore clear the difference between God’s kingdom and the kingdoms of this world, the difference between God’s design laws and human imposed laws. I have sought to expose how imposed rules (human governments and methods) always seek power over others to coerce and force its way, while God’s kingdom always seeks to heal hearts and minds while leaving people free to choose for themselves.
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