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Table of Contents
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Pretenders Among Us May 15, 2025
- Living in the Land of Liars: Part 1 April 1, 2021
- Living in the Land of Liars: Part 2 April 8, 2021
- Living Stones in God’s Temple December 11, 2009
- Loneliness: Its Cause and Cure May 6, 2021
- Look to Jesus June 16, 2022
- Love and Boundaries November 7, 2008
- 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
Chronological
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The Tree of Knowledge – Poison or Protection?
I have been thinking a lot about how God is a God of love and not a cruel God. I have gotten to a point that i cant think past, What was the point of God putting the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil in the garden. I just don’t see the point in it. the only thing that could come out of that tree was death but still God put it there.
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False Allegations about Substitution and Christ’s Mission
Recently, I have noted, from online forums and emails, a resurgence in the number of people who misunderstand what our ministry teaches. It appears these misunderstandings arise out of false assumptions. For instance, if we say we don’t believe in “penal substitution,” then some individuals allege we don’t believe in the substitutionary nature of Christ’s death, which of course is not true.
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Bible Genocide & A God of Love
Can you please explain the genocide that occurs in the Old Testament. For example God orders the Israelites to go and wipe out certain nations. The reason held is because if they don’t, then the influence on the Israelites will lead them away from God. How do you reconcile this order with the picture of a loving God?
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Appeasing an Offended God, What It Really Means!
This week, an online viewer to my weekly Bible Study Class asked how I understand this quotation from an article in Signs of the Times Dec 23, 1886: The altar and the promise stand side by side, and one casts clear beams of light upon the other, showing that the justice of an offended God could be appeased only by the death of his beloved Son.
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What Does the Veil Represent? – Satan or Jesus?
Thanks for your SS lessons which I watch without fail as they become available. Loved lesson 4’s typology. However, there is so much symbolism in Jesus being the 2nd veil, which I have summarized below:
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Jesus Paying Our Debt To God
I just saw this quote and wanted what your understanding of it is: The servant who had defrauded his master had nothing with which to make restitution. The sinner who has robbed God of years of service has no means of canceling the debt. Jesus interposes between the sinner and God, saying, I will pay the debt. Let the sinner be spared; I will suffer in his stead. {Review & Herald, December 14, 1911 par. 16}
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Forgiveness in the Non-Penal View
In this non-penal picture of God, when I ask Him to forgive me, what am I asking Him to do? And then, following that vein, when I ask a person to forgive me, what am I asking them to do?
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The God-Shaped Brain Changing Lives
The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life was released by Intervarsity Press in late April 2013. Since its release it has been extremely well received […]
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Biblical Keywords: Comparing Definitions
Many times, on theological topics like justice, judgment, atonement, satisfaction, etc., we encounter conflicts with those who oppose or do not appreciate what we are saying. Comparing how these and […]
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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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