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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: A Method of Seeking Union with Christ that Cuts One Off from Him • May 1, 2025
- 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 Perfection and Ongoing Sin • April 17, 2025
- Bible Prophecy: The Overarching Theme • July 7, 2020
- 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 (handout) • 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
Chronological
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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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Genuine Intimacy – What is it and Can Singles Experience it?
What exactly is intimacy? Is it a human need or just a want? Is it just for marriage? If it is a need we were created with, how do singles fulfill that need without violating the design protocol?
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Abuse, Christian Reconciliation, and Boundaries
Where and how does one draw the line between Christian reconciliation and not having contact with an individual who is verbally abusive?
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Subpoenaed By God
“You are my witnesses,’ says the Lord…” (Is 43:10) Have you ever thought about being a witness for God? Could God really need human beings to testify about Him? If […]
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10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Brain
Approximately one in three Americans is chronically sleep deprived, sleeping less than seven hours per night. Sleep is one of four physical requirements for life, along with air, water, and food. Yet far too many people fail to provide their brain and body with adequate sleep.
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Biblical Justice: What Is It?
On September 20, 2001, just nine days after terrorists attacked the United States in four hijacked passenger jets, President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of congress. In that speech President Bush stated, “Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.”
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The Gospel for Today
God is love. When God built His universe, He constructed it to operate in harmony with His nature and character. The construction protocol upon which the universe is built is commonly known as God’s law. The Bible tells us that this law is the “law of love,” which is not a feeling, but the principle of other-centeredness, giving or beneficence that life is designed by God to operate upon. (Rom 13:10, James 2:8, 1 Cor 13:5)
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Righteousness: A Real Change of Heart
This week in my devotional I came across the following quotation from one of the founders of my church: Christ came to manifest the love of God to the world, to draw the hearts of all men to Himself. He said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me” (John 12:32).
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