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Table of Contents
- The Undermining of Religious Liberty in the USA • June 11, 2020
- The War Between Chaos and Order: Why Our World Is Descending Into Disorder • February 9, 2023
- The Warping of Minds • May 12, 2022
- The Wedding Ring: To Wear or Not To Wear • October 4, 2010
- The World’s Wisdom Is Foolishness • January 7, 2021
- Three Reasons Why Now Is the Biblical “Time of the End” • June 3, 2021
- Three Rejections of God by Ancient Israel: An Object Lesson for Us • November 17, 2022
- Tithing • March 2, 2023
- Top 10 Reasons NOT to Get Married • December 2, 2011
- Top 10 Ways To Establish a Healthy Marriage • December 23, 2011
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation—A Drug-Free Treatment for Depression • May 16, 2024
- Transfiguration: A Conversation Between Jesus, Elijah, and Moses • July 28, 2022
- Transgender People and Our Community – A Rational Understanding and Approach • November 8, 2018
- Transgenderism • December 2, 2021
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment • August 7, 2019
- Treasure in Heaven • March 23, 2023
- Tree of Life: Real or Metaphor? • October 31, 2009
- Trinity – More Questions • November 13, 2009
- Truth — How It Unfolds and Advances • December 6, 2018
- Turning Evil into Good • May 9, 2024
- Two Pictures of God • April 28, 2010
- Two Pictures of God • May 26, 2010
- Understanding Bible Commentaries Through Design Law • December 7, 2020
- Understanding Ellen G. White’s Quote About the Righteousness of Christ and the Sinner’s Account • February 13, 2025
- Understanding Revelation 6 and Being Fully Persuaded in Your Own Mind • May 18, 2023
- Unity Versus Division in the World Today • March 9, 2023
- Urim and Thummim: Judgment and the Sanctuary • March 14, 2024
- Vatican Lists “New Sins” • March 15, 2008
- Victorious Living – Now or Then? • January 8, 2010
- Victory Through Intimate Love • April 20, 2023
- Violence and Turning the Other Cheek • November 23, 2007
- Viruses: What Are They and Where Did They Come From? • March 17, 2020
- Walking With God • November 11, 2021
- Was Jesus a Created Being? • December 12, 2008
- Was Sin Inevitable? • May 1, 2009
- Welcome to My Blog • November 16, 2007
- What Angels Saw at the Cross • November 12, 2012
- What Child Is This? • December 26, 2008
- What Do “Blood of Jesus” and “Hand of God” Mean? • December 18, 2009
- What Does It Mean to Be Guilty of Breaking All of God’s Law? • May 30, 2024
- What Does the Law Demand? • January 22, 2010
- What Does the Veil Represent? – Satan or Jesus? • October 20, 2013
- What Is Biblical Justice? • November 16, 2017
- What Is Essential for Salvation? • February 6, 2019
- What is God’s Grace? • September 15, 2022
- What Law Was Broken? • May 15, 2009
- What Makes the Sabbath Holy? • January 2, 2025
- What the Law Demands • May 26, 2010
- What would had happened to Jesus if the Jews would have Accepted Him? • December 13, 2011
- When Apologizing Is Wrong • August 18, 2020
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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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