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Table of Contents
- 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 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
- The Strangeness of God September 19, 2024
- The Sweetness of Trusting in Jesus November 24, 2022
- The Sword of God May 17, 2008
- The Temptations of Jesus: A Lesson for Us November 23, 2020
- The Ten Commandments of Religious Liberty: COVID and the Church’s Responsibility March 10, 2022
- The Timing of God in Sending His Son November 10, 2022
- The Trap of Perfectionism—the Fear of Making Mistakes May 8, 2025
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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