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Table of Contents
- The Difference Between Clinical and Situational Depression February 1, 2024
- The Economy a sign of the End? October 11, 2008
- The False Allure of Universalism April 18, 2019
- The First Death: A Manifestation of God’s Grace January 9, 2025
- The Flag and the Sabbath April 21, 2022
- The Flood and the Question of Whether God Kills – Part 1 December 11, 2019
- The Flood and the Question of Whether God Kills – Part 2 January 15, 2020
- The Four Judgments July 22, 2021
- The God-Shaped Brain Changing Lives June 6, 2013
- The Gospel for Today February 16, 2012
- The Gospel Is the Good News About God May 26, 2022
- The Great Controversy and COVID August 5, 2021
- The Green Delusion April 15, 2021
- The Healing Substitution Model June 4, 2010
- The Imminent Collapse of the United States April 6, 2023
- The Impending End of the Earth April 15, 2020
- The Infinite Sacrifice of Christ April 21, 2020
- The Injustice of Human Justice January 14, 2021
- The Insidiousness of Sin – and God’s Remedy June 3, 2020
- The Integrative Evidence-Based Approach to Finding Truth November 5, 2019
- The Journey of Life: The Roads We Travel — Part 1 May 29, 2019
- The Journey of Life: The Roads We Travel — Part 2 June 5, 2019
- The Kingdom of Love January 25, 2008
- The Law of Liberty and Society Today November 17, 2020
- The Lie That Led To Penal Substitution Theology January 10, 2019
- The Little Horn, God’s Law, and How You have been Deceived September 4, 2011
- The Most Holy Place: A Metaphor for Our Minds December 16, 2021
- The Never Ending Lie – You will not surely die! August 18, 2011
- The New Jerusalem—the Bride of Christ April 7, 2022
- The Old Testament, Modern Teaching, and the Integrative Evidenced-Based Approach June 22, 2023
- The Plagues of Egypt and the Seven Last Plagues: They Are NOT the Same August 15, 2024
- The Power of a Lie December 21, 2007
- The Power of Truth to Change the Brain May 10, 2018
- The Psychodynamics of Saul Becoming Paul December 19, 2024
- The Purpose of Confessing Our Sins to Others February 27, 2025
- The Question of Punishment – Part II April 18, 2008
- The Question of Punishment – Part III April 25, 2008
- The Question of Punishment Part I April 11, 2008
- The Renewed Mind and the Will of God December 8, 2022
- The Rich Young Ruler—Insights for Today August 3, 2023
- The Sabbath & Church Duties April 8, 2011
- The Science of Happiness June 27, 2024
- The Seal of God July 24, 2025
- The Secret to Happiness and Joy May 5, 2020
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 1 February 18, 2021
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 2 February 25, 2021
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 3 March 4, 2021
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 4 March 11, 2021
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 5 March 18, 2021
- The Six Powers of Satan and How to Overcome Them: Part 6 March 25, 2021
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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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