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Table of Contents

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

 

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  • Selfishness and Governance

    Selfishness and Governance

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    Selfishness is the root of sin, resulting from believing lies about God and breaking the circle of love and trust. Selfishness is based in fear and brings forth envy and jealousy. Selfishness leads to exploiting others rather than serving others.


  • New Wine in Old Skins

    New Wine in Old Skins

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    Recently, I received an email from a friend that had such powerful insight that I asked permission to post it on our website as a guest blog. I hope you find it as impactful as I did. – Dr. J Issues of women’s ordination and compliance committees have some of us thinking that deeper forces are at work today in the church.


  • Peace in a Violent World

    Peace in a Violent World

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    The Bible tells us that we are living at the end of time and that it is at this time in human history that the evil one would become more ferocious in his attacks upon humanity. But what kind of war does Satan wage?


  • What Is Essential for Salvation?

    What Is Essential for Salvation?

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    Have you ever wondered what the essential elements are that make someone a child of God? Is it: Whether they profess Jesus as their Savior? Whether they were baptized in the right way? What day they attend worship services?


  • The Lie That Led To Penal Substitution Theology

    The Lie That Led To Penal Substitution Theology

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    God is the Creator who built all reality—space, time, energy, matter, and life. His laws are the laws that reality is constructed to operate upon; the laws of gravity, physics, thermodynamics, health, and the moral laws. These are fixed principles upon which life is constructed to exist.


  • Sabbath — Imposed Rule or Design for Life?

    Sabbath — Imposed Rule or Design for Life?

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    I have many friends who were raised Seventh-day Adventist and were taught to observe the Bible Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset—the same Sabbath hours the Jewish people observe. But many of them have found the day to be a day of restriction, a day filled with lists of all the things they cannot do.


  • Truth — How It Unfolds and Advances

    Truth — How It Unfolds and Advances

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    Do you want to be a person of truth, someone who loves the truth, who is able to comprehend the truth and move forward in truth as it is revealed? The Bible tells us that those who are lost are lost because “they refused to love the truth and so be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:10).


  • Sincerity in Rule Keeping Can Destroy

    Sincerity in Rule Keeping Can Destroy

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    In the 1964 epic movie, Zulu, starring Michael Caine, the battle of Rorke’s Drift is depicted. This battle occurred in South Africa in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu war. The movie depicts the true events of 150 wounded and sick British Soldiers, successfully defending themselves against 4,000 Zulu warriors.


  • The Two Ditches: Atheism on the Left, Imperial Dictator God on the Right

    The Two Ditches: Atheism on the Left, Imperial Dictator God on the Right

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    God is Creator — builder of all reality (space, time, energy, life) — and God’s laws are the laws upon which reality are constructed to operate — the laws of physics, health, and the moral laws.


  • Transgender People and Our Community – A Rational Understanding and Approach

    Transgender People and Our Community – A Rational Understanding and Approach

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    Over the last several years, there has been much in the press about transgender individuals, transgender rights, and legislators battling over various issues (public bathrooms, etc.). In my practice, I have had a number of patients who are transgender, and even more family members of transgender individuals struggling with some aspect of this issue.


  • Alzheimer’s, Cholesterol, and Genetics – How to Reduce Your Risk for Dementia

    Alzheimer’s, Cholesterol, and Genetics – How to Reduce Your Risk for Dementia

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    It has been known for more than two decades that elevated cholesterol was associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).[1] It is also known that the ApoE gene produces a protein that transports fats, including cholesterol, into brain cells.


  • Does God Make People Deaf and Blind?

    Does God Make People Deaf and Blind?

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    This is Anisha, and I’m thirteen. I loved reading your book, The God-Shaped Brain, but I still have some doubts that needed clarification. Dr. Tim, in chapter 8, pages 116 to 118, you explained that God does not create all the health disorders that the human race suffers today, so how are we to fit the following verse in?


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Thank you! I love listening to the Come And Reason Ministries Bible study classes and am using some of your notes to get the lessons together that I will be teaching. You always have such good quotes and Bible texts and pull things together to make good sense.

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My husband is a pastor and I listen to your lesson almost every week. Thank you for helping me in my study life and to help me love the “real” God more.

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We listen to your bible studies lessons in our class in Montana. You actually were the main reason I decided to get a laptop, so I can go to your site and listen, read, learn, and print the class notes. I am so grateful to learn the correct view of God and his character. Now, to just have others have an interest in knowing, so I can share it with them. Good thoughts your way.

R. N., MT, USA

 

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Your seminars are still inspiring and changing our lives and we continue to share the principles we have learned from you. Your ministry has changed our lives!

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Testimony 51

I Love This Ministry!!!!!!! I see first hand how this message is desperately needed, how erroneous beliefs about God and His Character negatively affect humanity at every level. I thank God for your ministry, as I was searching on my own and was discovering some of your same beliefs and was blown away when I found your ministry. I know you hear it all the time, but it is truly life changing. May God continue to reveal His Will to you and Bless you!

Eric S., Sanford, FL, USA

 

Testimony 62

I would like to express my thanks to the C&R team for creating a platform from which people can learn to trust in God and grow. My life is a witness to the effectiveness of this ministry. Without believing the truth about God as you have shown, I don’t know what my life would be like. I had given up on God helping me with certain sins – it was all useless. Given that the scripture is clear and God is so good, how could I have betrayed him so many times? I was a yo-yo christian; spinning up and down. My faith and enthusiasm was driven by discoveries/threats that prophecy is about to be fulfilled. But when I watched your “Healing the Mind” seminar, it was like a light finally went on. I could see God had no plan to hurt me, the danger came from sin, and that He is working to protect me and strengthen me. Thank you for allowing God to use you. The message God gave C&R saved my life!

Antony N. – Hobart, Australia

 

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I borrowed “Healing The Mind” DVDs from a friend and showed them at my home for a small gathering of women friends. Neither of my friends are Adventist, but they both enjoyed and embraced the messages you taught. In fact, one of the ladies prayed out loud in our group and that was the first time she had ever had public prayer.

J.B. ,Dalles, OR, USA

 

Testimony 31

It was very touching to hear the testimony of your class share how viewing God’s true character has changed their lives. My feelings are the same – there is so much freedom in knowing that God LOVES me – regardless of my… just, REGARDLESS! I’m still blown away by the true gospel, the fact that God is not ready to strike us when we fail. He is not arbitrary. He simply loves us and warns of the natural consequences because He can’t stand to see us suffer. I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GOD!!!

Ceil V.,  UT, USA

 

Testimony 69

After reading your book, ‘Could It Be This Simple,’ someone was explaining Christianity in a way that made sense to me for the first time in my life. One morning, I simply prayed “I’m sorry and I love you.” As soon as I silently said that, I could literally feel God’s presence and light flood down on me from above and fill me up with love and joy. I sat there crying my eyes out, because I was so overpowered with this feeling of love and joy. It was just so incredible. I hope that more people can read this book and get a blessing from it. It’s really amazing.

Rachael H.

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I have been watching you for many years and have learned to love God with all my heart. I was raised by a loving Christian mother that had been lied to about who God really was, so our religious upbringing was hell fire and damnation. As soon as I was old enough and moved out, I not only left the church, I ran as fast as I could to get away from it. Sad to say, it wasn’t until the past couple of years that I learned and understand who my Father really is and how much He loves me. I understand God’s Design Laws (which make sense) and when I’m teaching my church Bible study class, I’m able to really put to use the things I’ve been learning and Holy Spirit is leading. Thank you for introducing me to my Father of true, pure love. Everyday with Him is new and exciting. One thing that breaks my heart is that I didn’t know Him sooner. God Bless you and your ministry!

Judy Phelps, Reno, NV, USA

Testimony 45

I have been confused for years about what [christianity] calls [its] most disgusting teaching. It has never made much sense to me and for that reason has been evermore empty. I have listened to your class off and on and have struggled determining what is truth, because of the resistance design law encounters in the church. So, I thank God for your ministry. What you teach makes sense. It’s logical and backed up by the power of love. I have never seen that in Christ until now. I am astounded by the insight that is found when we look at God’s ministry through design law. All strength to this message, as I believe it to be the power of God.

Brendon S.

 

Testimony 57

You have helped make sense of thirty two years of confusion. The material you freely provide reorganized so much of my life into such a beautiful pattern that has always been hinted at from within, but misguided with my training and what I was experiencing externally. My filipno parents, who were converted from Catholicism to SDA, were sincere and did their best to raise me the right way and I have deep respect for them. However, being immigrants and not understanding the language made for a difficult transition as I was growing up, which also applied to my spiritual growth as I learned the patterns of religion. I have been listening to as many bible study classes and reading blog posts as my time in a work truck will allow, searching for the practical applications of where spirituality and reality meet, and I thank you for helping me find that. You have helped me reach a point in which I can truly say that I love God, that I believe He loves me, and, like David, I delight in His law. God bless.

Emmanuel V., Calgary, AB Canada

Testimony 55

I was born [into the church], then I left it for many years. 10 years ago, I came back, but I could not take the hypocrisy and the lack of answers to the missing pieces. I struggled, but I did not abandon my commitment to know the truth. God is leading me to the simple understanding of his relevance and I am relearning what the church taught me as a youth… that he loves me, that he has led me to a knowledge of him such as I have never known. He is using Dr. Jennings to connect the dots that are now so apparent and hiding in plain sight!

Dean P., Arlington, TX, USA

 

Testimony 46

Over the past couple of years God has been expanding my view of Himself and His character. Along my approximately 40-year journey, I have often had questions, but was hesitant to voice these and step outside the traditionally accepted thinking, for fear of admitting that I may in fact be eternally lost. In the recesses of my thinking has been the thought – if one blindly accepts (which is widely regarded as “real faith”) and does not question, is this really ‘truth?’ I often find it challenging to grapple with very theological ‘speak,’ but Dr. Jennings has a real gift of explaining spiritual concepts with clear practical examples. The weekly discussions are growing my Christian experience and slowly changing my view of how to live as a child of God in today’s complex world. Finally the whole Old Testament sanctuary teaching moved in my mind from fantasy to reality!

Beverly S., South Africa

 

Testimony 53

I was so blessed by a friend who gave me your book, “The God Shaped Brain,” while I was sitting in church asking God to please help me learn more about Him and help me not to be so confused and scared. That was about 2 years ago. Your books have helped me to love God even more. I’m not confused or scared anymore! I have listened to all of your bible study classes and feel like I know the wonderful people that attend every week. Thank you for all that you’re doing in spreading the true message about God and His law of love. God bless you and your whole class.

Elssy P., Modesto, CA, USA