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- Christian Beware the Trap of the Social Justice Movement! • June 23, 2020
- Christian Warfare • October 6, 2022
- Christianity and Slavery • September 7, 2020
- Christianity versus Other Religions • March 18, 2010
- Christianity—The Remedy for Racism • August 18, 2021
- Christians and Aliens: Satan’s End-Time Deception • June 17, 2021
- Christians and Guns • April 1, 2010
- Christmas & The Christian • November 19, 2010
- Church Attendance & Conspiracies • February 26, 2010
- Circumcision & Feast Days Should We Do It Today? • August 27, 2010
- Circumcision What Does It Mean? • May 5, 2022
- Clothed or Naked – A Strange Bible Story for the End Times • August 3, 2020
- Codependency: What It Is—And How to Break Free • April 18, 2024
- Competitive Sports – Spiritually Healthy or Not? • November 12, 2010
- Confessing Faults and Sins • February 26, 2011
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) and End-Time Lessons • March 31, 2020
- COVID and the Death of the Independent American Physician • August 19, 2021
- COVID and the Genocide Playbook: Ten Steps to Get Good People to Harm Others • September 23, 2021
- COVID and the Manipulation of Your Mind – Part 1 • August 18, 2022
- COVID and the Manipulation of Your Mind – Part 2 • August 25, 2022
- COVID and the Manipulation of Your Mind – Part 3 • September 1, 2022
- COVID and the Manipulation of Your Mind – Part 4 • September 8, 2022
- Creation – Light on Day One but Sun on Day Four, Why? • August 21, 2009
- Creation, Evolution, and Evidence Based Thinking • October 14, 2012
- Critical Thinking and a Confused Society • June 27, 2019
- David and the Showbread vs. Uzzah and the Ark • January 2, 2018
- Dealing with Bad Decisions • January 7, 2020
- Dealing with Rejection • May 10, 2008
- Death: A Punishment Inflicted by God or a Natural Consequence of Sin? • February 15, 2024
- Demon or Holy Spirit Possession? • June 18, 2019
- Depression: Where Does It Start? • January 10, 2009
- Despising and Rejecting Jesus Today • March 17, 2022
- Did Christ die the “Second Death”? • August 8, 2008
- Did God Create Adam and Eve with a Defective Void? • June 28, 2018
- Did God Kill David’s Baby? • June 3, 2011
- Dinah: A Lesson in Satan’s Tactics for Today • June 15, 2020
- Disasters: Are they from God? • May 17, 2008
- Discerning Truth—Seeing Through the Lies • October 3, 2024
- Do Christians “go on sinning”? • December 19, 2008
- Do We Have to Give Up Sin? • March 6, 2009
- Do You Celebrate or Grieve When Your Enemies Suffer? • July 14, 2022
- Does Drinking Coffee Reduce The Risk of Alzheimer’s? • January 16, 2009
- Does God Bring Evil? • July 10, 2009
- Does God Choose Our Life Partner? • August 1, 2010
- Does God Create Evil? • August 21, 2018
- Does God ever NOT Forgive? • March 13, 2009
- Does God Make People Deaf and Blind? • September 20, 2018
- Does Perfect Love Remove Fear of My Child Going Astray? • August 7, 2009
- Does Science Ever Confuse You? • January 4, 2008
- Does Sexual Arousal Outside Marriage Damage the Brain? • August 18, 2010
Chronological
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Work or Handouts: How to Help Those in Need
In my 2018 blog, The Benefits of Work, I described how work benefits people in multiple ways. Today, I want to explore a different aspect of work — and the lack thereof.
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Suicide: Risk and Prevention
For the past decade, the suicide rate among teens has been increasing. Among teen boys, suicide completion has increased 33 percent over the last 10 years, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Where Is Your Citizenship?
Do you identify yourself as an American, Canadian, Australian, South African, or as some other nationality? I was raised to be a proud American—to wave the flag, to celebrate Independence Day, and to revel in the storied history of my nation.
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Critical Thinking and a Confused Society
Every day, I am amazed at how often contradictory and conflated ideas are presented that go unchallenged in our society. For instance, how a clear truth can be twisted into a lie
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Demon or Holy Spirit Possession?
As I have traveled around the world, one of the questions I am often asked is about demon possession. “What is demon possession?” and “What can I do about it?” are some of the frequent questions I receive, whether I’m in a nation known for its superstition or in a secular-dominated country.
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The Journey of Life: The Roads We Travel — Part 2
The journey of life can be tough. There are many roads, not all equally healthy. In part 1 of this series we examined Walking in Ignorance, Illiteracy and Infancy. Consider the remaining paths below as you decide the way you will walk through life.
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The Journey of Life: The Roads We Travel — Part 1
Filled with all its challenges, stressors, sickness, and conflicts, life can be hard. Many people come to see me in the midst of their struggles, desperately searching for a better way to live. But, as I teach them to find practical strategies that will help them cope, I have also discovered that our understanding of reality — how life works — has a direct impact on our understanding of what is happening to us and our ability to cope with the stress.
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Finding Peace when Life Is Stressful
Do you ever get stressed, worried, tense, keyed-up? In this world, we cannot avoid moments of stress because stressful events occur. When such events do occur, our bodies have an adaptive response to provide us quick energy and activate our body’s defenses (immune system) to protect us from injury or infection.
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Anger — Righteous Indignation or Selfish Retaliation?
Do you ever get angry? Recently, I was reading an article about marriage in which a Christian author was describing various indicators that might point to demonic oppression as a contributing cause to marital problems. One indicator he listed was “inappropriate anger.”
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The False Allure of Universalism
Recently, I received an email from a sincere lady who expressed her appreciation for my book The God-Shaped Brain, but was concerned that I have failed to embrace the fullness of God’s love by not promoting Universalism. She cited 1 Corinthians 13:8, that “love never fails,”
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Exegesis and the Thought Police
Have you ever received a note or email with a comment that went something like this: According to Professor Smarter-than-you of the Biblical Academic Institution, your exegesis on Bible text such and such is incorrect”?
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