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Table of Contents
- “My Blood, Father!” How Do We Understand Such Words? • April 16, 2010
- ‘One With You’ Poem • October 17, 2024
- 10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Brain • April 2, 2012
- 7 Steps to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Mind Sharp • June 13, 2018
- 8 Steps for Successful Bible Study • September 13, 2010
- A Call for Help • January 18, 2008
- A Kitten, a Scorpion, or a Dragon: How Do You See Your Government? • October 28, 2021
- A Remedy for Loneliness • January 7, 2018
- A Scriptural Healing Plan for Overcoming Addiction • April 29, 2020
- A Summary List of What We Believe at Come And Reason with Resource Links • June 29, 2023
- Abuse, Christian Reconciliation, and Boundaries • May 15, 2012
- Addictions – Does Conversion Heal the Brain? • September 3, 2010
- ADHD • June 26, 2009
- Adventists are for Health—Not the Herd • November 12, 2021
- Alzheimer’s, Cholesterol, and Genetics – How to Reduce Your Risk for Dementia • October 25, 2018
- Amusements and Jewelry • September 11, 2009
- An Attitude of Gratitude • November 19, 2019
- Anger — Righteous Indignation or Selfish Retaliation? • May 9, 2019
- Anointing with Oil: Real Medicine or Superstitious Ceremony? • July 6, 2018
- Anxiety: A Symptom Made Into a Disorder • April 3, 2025
- Appeasing an Offended God, What It Really Means! • November 4, 2013
- Are Jesus and Michael One and the Same? • November 16, 2011
- Are Sins Passed Down to Our Children? • February 12, 2010
- Assurance of Salvation • December 5, 2008
- Atonement Models: Thoughts and Questions • June 14, 2008
- Authority and Satan’s End-Time Deception • August 29, 2024
- Babylon, Popery, and Your Church—A Call to Come Out • October 12, 2023
- Babylon, the Mother of Harlots: Time To Come Out! • February 11, 2021
- Baptism – Necessary or Not? • March 4, 2011
- Becoming Like Little Children • September 26, 2019
- Being a Member of God’s Family on Earth • February 16, 2023
- Being a Priest of God • May 25, 2018
- Beware the Methods of the Crucifiers • April 14, 2022
- Beware: The Current Claim of “Institutional Racism” Is Really an Attack on Christianity • July 27, 2020
- Bible Genocide & A God of Love • November 25, 2013
- Bible Language and Judgment • February 27, 2009
- Bible Mistranslations • December 4, 2009
- Bible Prophecy: The Overarching Theme • July 7, 2020
- Bible Texts Reveal Why Jesus Had to Die • April 24, 2009
- Biblical Approach to Addictions • May 29, 2009
- Biblical Justice: What Is It? • March 12, 2012
- Biblical Keywords: Comparing Definitions • May 12, 2013
- Building on the Rock • November 18, 2021
- Calling Someone Fool or Raca: What’s The Difference? • October 28, 2011
- Changing Your Mind: Pornography and the Brain • March 31, 2018
- Christ Our Remedy To Sin • May 26, 2010
- Christ Our Substitute • November 21, 2008
- Christ Pleading Before His Father • March 22, 2008
- Christ’s “Effectual Plea” – To Whom Is He Pleading? • October 9, 2009
- Christ: Our Remedy to Sin! • February 19, 2010
Chronological
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Why Does the Law Demand the Life of the Sinner?
How do we harmonize quotes like this one, or perhaps is there a better way to say it?: “On the Day of Atonement the high priest… went into the most […]
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Psalms 23 – The Path to Eternal Life
Several months back, in one of my Bible Studies I shared my understanding of the meaning of the 23rd Psalm – that is is a Psalm of the experience of salvation from sinner to eternal life. Several have emailed me and asked for my take on this psalm, so I have summarized it here. “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” God is watching out for me and I don’t need to worry about where my support will come from. He will provide all my soul needs.
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Medical Marijuana and Psychiatric Illness – A Call to Action
Dr. Jennings submitted the following article to Psychiatric News to consider for publication in their paper, however after several months he has not had a response and is posting it […]
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School Shootings – Why All the Violence?
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting of 20 children and 6 adults, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut people are searching for answers – why? Why did this tragedy happen? Why all the shootings[i] – Columbine, Nickel Mines Village, Clackamas Town Center Mall, Virginia Tech, a movie theater in Colorado and far too many more – why?
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Soy Beans, Fish Oil and Obesity
Over the last 100 years dietary patterns in many westernized countries have changed. In the US, there has been a significant shift in the percentages of dietary oils ingested, away from healthy oils to more obesity promoting fats. Historically, the human diet containing no more than 1% of an oil known as linoleic acid (LA), which is an omega 6 fatty acid found in a variety of foods, but is highly concentrated in soy bean oil. Over the past century the US dietary intake of LA has increased from 1% to 8% of daily caloric intake.
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Forgiving Self – Why Is It So Hard?
Hello, I am from Malawi but live in the UK. I have been following your class for about a year now. I must say I am impressed with how your ministry has grown… you have taught me how to forgive myself. This has set me free indeed… [but my] question is “Why is it so hard to forgive ourselves?” Can you please help me shed light on this?
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What Angels Saw at the Cross
Revelation 12:10-12 says, “Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ‘Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
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Creation, Evolution, and Evidence Based Thinking
As a Christian physician and scientist (one who forms beliefs based upon objective evidence, which is testable and reproducible, while remaining open to modifying those beliefs as more evidence becomes available), I am struck by the level of non-evidence-based thinking and believing rife within both religious and scientific communities.
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Women’s Ordination
Recently I was asked to read an article that addressed the issue of ordination of women. The article, while advocating for female pastors, opposed ordination for women as ordination included “church authority” to baptize and establish churches. The author appealed to the example of Lucifer in heaven being jealous of Christ and Korah being jealous of Aaron and neither being content with their position as evidence that God has selected men to be ordained and women should not be jealous of ordination but content with their position.
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Retribution or Rehabilitation
As I was reviewing this week’s [bible study] lesson on Final Events, you make the statement in your outline…”When one accepts that God imposes law, then one must conclude that the consequences one experiences for disobedience to God’s law is imposed by God, or that God’s wrath is something that he inflicts to punish for sin.” Since I am developing in law school my views of criminal punishment and civil sanctions, should I relate my view of God into the courtroom?
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Effective Communication
Writer Charles Swindoll once found himself with too many commitments in too few days. He got nervous and tense about it. “I was snapping at my wife and our children, choking down my food at mealtimes, and feeling irritated at those unexpected interruptions through the day,” he recalled in his book Stress Fractures. “Before long, things around our home started reflecting the patter of my hurry-up style. It was becoming unbearable.
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Salvation & Sanctification
The following is a short exchange with one of our online listeners: Nelson: I just listened to 2012 Q3 Lesson 4 and I’m a little confused about your last statement before the prayer. You mentioned that Peter wasn’t saved until he died to self (I’m paraphrasing). I’ve always thought that salvation comes from accepting (believing) Christ as your Savior (John 3:16) and that sanctification is the process of dying to self and becoming more like Christ. Can you explain to me a little more what salvation is?
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