Love: God’s New Covenant Gift
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | Full confession: studying through Romans for the Former Adventist Podcast with Nikki Stevenson has opened my eyes in so many ways that I didn’t realize I […]
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Author: Colleen Tinker
Colleen Tinker, the editor of Proclamation! magazine, and her husband Richard left Adventism in 1998 with their two sons, Roy and Nathanael, who were in grades six and ten. They have co-led the Former Adventist Fellowship since 1999. Colleen, a graduate of Walla Walla University, is a former high school English teacher and also the former managing editor of Adventist Today magazine. Colleen became the stepmother of Roy and Nathanael in 1989, and in 2008 she adopted them. Romans 8:15-17 has assumed new depth and significance for her and Richard since she and her sons chose to claim each other legally and permanently. She and Richard share an office and a commitment to sharing the gospel of the true Jesus with all of those seeking a way out of the bondage of the false gospel of Adventism.
November 8–14, 2025
Lesson 7: “Ultimate Loyalty: Worship in a War Zone” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | The Great Controversy paradigm makes it impossible for an Adventist to understand the Bible in context. When […]
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We Got Mail
What Happens To the Wicked Dead? I’ve been intending to write, but life seems to go on fast even though I live in the slow lane of my garden. I […]
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November 1–7, 2025
Lesson 6: “The Enemy Within” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | What is “sin”? Is it, as Adventist historian and author George Knight has said, a disease which yields “sins” as its […]
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Reaction to Podcast “A False Prophet? Ellen G. White” That’s not what Adventists believe in. Ellen G. White never mentioned herself to be a prophet, and Adventists have never used […]
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October 25–31, 2025
Lesson 5: “God Fights For You” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | This week’s Sabbath School lessons are the second round of attempts to explain Israel’s battles against the Canaanites from a […]
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Paul Named Names Just a few words of reflection: why didn’t Paul leave Demas alone, in love with this present world (2 Timothy 4:10)? He didn’t; he mentioned him in […]
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October 18–24, 2025
Lesson 4: “The Conflict Behind All Conflicts” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | This week’s Sabbath School lesson states that Adventism interprets the Bible through the lens of Ellen White’s great controversy. […]
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I Don’t Understand the Trinity Please explain the Trinity of the Bible. The Father, Son-Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. I know they are one. However, I still do not understand […]
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Editorial: Are You Antinomian? What is the Law of Christ?
Why do some Christians who know and teach the gospel say that the Ten Commandments are the moral law of God, the written expression of His character, and the guide […]
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October 11–17, 2025
Lesson 3: “Memorials of Grace” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | What do you know about the Israelites’ crossing into the Promised Land? Why did the priests carrying the ark of the […]
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What Freedom Did You Find Breaking the Sabbath? There is only one way to say: if the validity of Sabbath keeping is removed, all other nine commandments are also no […]
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Leaving Sabbath Gives You Freedom
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | We who have been Adventists have consistent questions the catch us off guard as we begin to process what we believed as Adventists. This week I […]
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October 4–10, 2025
Lesson 2: “Surprised by Grace” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | When you hear the word “grace”, what does that word bring to your mind? What does God’s grace look like? Is […]
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Disagreement With Des Ford When I was having baptismal studies in 1975, Pastor Chris Jagger from Bankstown SDA Church, Sydney, Australia, said I should ignore Colossians 2:16,17. The Adventist practice […]
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