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Table of Contents
- Love Compels to Discipline, but Law Compels to Punish • November 14, 2024
- Love, Don’t Hate, the Liars • November 9, 2020
- Love: A New Command – Part 1 • November 2, 2023
- Love: A New Command – Part 2 • November 9, 2023
- Loving Others First • December 7, 2007
- Loving Others — What Does It Look Like? • February 4, 2020
- Maintaining a Healthy Brain • February 9, 2008
- Manicures and Spas: Should I Feel Guilty • October 22, 2010
- Marijuana – The Science Behind the Smoke • February 6, 2018
- Marijuana – What Affect Does It Have? • May 20, 2010
- Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage • July 17, 2009
- Mass Delusion: How It Happens and How to Protect Your Mind • January 13, 2022
- Mass Shootings — The Real Cause • August 13, 2019
- Medical Marijuana and Psychiatric Illness – A Call to Action • January 21, 2013
- Meekness Is Not Weakness • April 28, 2022
- Meeting in Person During the Pandemic • September 16, 2020
- Merry CHRISTmas • December 23, 2021
- Metaphors of the Atonement • April 23, 2011
- Miracle Healing Via Dead Spirits? What’s Going On? • May 7, 2010
- Misunderstanding the Truth • June 19, 2009
- Modern Science Upends the Scopes Monkey Trial Verdict • October 31, 2024
- Mother’s Stress & Her Child’s Brain • January 11, 2011
- Music and the Brain • May 8, 2011
- My Sin Is Not as Bad as Your Sin • April 22, 2021
- Naaman: An Object Lesson for Us • December 21, 2023
- Near Death Experiences • February 6, 2009
- Nebuchadnezzar—Lessons in God’s Grace • December 14, 2023
- New Wine in Old Skins • February 20, 2019
- No One Escapes the War Between Good and Evil • May 19, 2022
- Only God Is Infallible • July 7, 2022
- Open Theism • November 1, 2008
- Our Resistance and God’s Persistence • January 4, 2024
- Our Two Natures: Gaining the Victory! • June 20, 2010
- Overcoming Evil • March 13, 2025
- Parables of Jesus – The Overarching Theme • August 25, 2020
- Parents Represent God to Their Children • June 8, 2023
- Pastors Faithful to Jesus Think for Themselves • January 16, 2025
- Peace and Victory When Evil Abounds • January 5, 2023
- Peace in a Violent World • February 14, 2019
- Penal Substitution versus Design Law – What’s the Difference? • July 18, 2018
- Penal Substitution: Modern Baal Worship • May 12, 2020
- Perfecting Christian Character • January 22, 2012
- Politics and the Gospel • July 6, 2023
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • March 25, 2020
- Prayer Beads: The Upside and Dangers • April 3, 2009
- Pre- or Post-Tribulation Rapture? • October 17, 2019
- Premarital Sex – Should I Stop When I Come To Christ? • October 28, 2010
- Prepare! The King of the North Is Coming • February 24, 2022
- Priests and Child Abuse — A Predictable Result • September 5, 2018
- Psalms 23 – The Path to Eternal Life • February 11, 2013
Chronological
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Red Heifer Ceremony
A listener asked me about the red heifer sacrifice—what is its significance? We find the instructions for this ceremony in Numbers chapter 19…
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Repairers of the Breach
Isaiah 58 says we “shall build the old waste places… raise up the foundations… and… be called the Repairer of Broken walls (NIV).” What is the wall that has been breached? And what is the breach that we are to repair?
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Codependency: What It Is—And How to Break Free
There is healing for people who struggle with dependency relationships, but the first steps are realizing that one is struggling with dependency and differentiating those emotions from healthy love.
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Imputed and Imparted Righteousness—Design versus Imposed Law
The way we understand the Bible and its themes, such as imputed and imparted righteousness, is determined by the law lens through which we view them. What is the reality?
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Salvation and the Cleansing of Our Spirit—Part 2
Let’s examine how Jesus’ vicarious, self-sacrificial, substitutionary death provides for our salvation, for our redemption, rebirth, and cleansing from sin.
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Salvation and the Cleansing of Our Spirit—Part 1
In order to intelligently cooperate most effectively with God for the cleansing of our spirits, we must understand what our spirit is.
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Urim and Thummim: Judgment and the Sanctuary
“The sanctuary was designated as the place of divine judgment as indicated by the judgment of Urim (Num. 27:21) and by the breastplate of judgment of the high priest…” When you read descriptions like this, what comes to mind? Something legal?
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Happiness from Killing Babies? A Closer Look at Psalm 137
Psalms 137 is the culmination of a short psalm that laments Israel’s captivity in Babylon and concludes with what appears to be a very human, worldly response to injustice—retaliation against the enemy. But is this what the Holy Spirit actually inspired the psalmist to write, or did something get confused in the translation?
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Hope and Healing for Those Struggling with Anxiety
Pain is designed to signal us when something isn’t functioning as it should so that we can address the problem quickly, remove the offending source, and prevent more serious injury. Anxiety serves the same purpose; it alerts us that something is wrong…
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Reformers and Today
Will we be people who love to grow, discover, and move forward in new epiphanies, deeper comprehension, and closer intimacy with God, which occurs as we press forward in the knowledge of God, His kingdom, His design laws, methods, and principles?
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Death: A Punishment Inflicted by God or a Natural Consequence of Sin?
If the power of death is the devil’s power and God does not inflict death as punishment for sin, then what do we do with texts like these?
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