Ellen White Is Used to Suppress Jesus
NICOLE STEVENSON I probably would have forgotten about the practice altogether if it hadn’t suddenly come to mind while I was singing at church recently. There I was, worshiping in […]
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Author: Nicole Stevenson
Nicole Stevenson lives in Southern California with her husband Carel and her two children, Joshua and Abigail. Nicole graduated from La Sierra University with a degree in social work and is currently staying home to raise their kids. Nicole, with her husband Carel, was on the launch team of Redeemer Fellowship, an evangelical church in Loma Linda, California.
“I’m sorry that you were hurt in Adventism”
NICOLE STEVENSON Have you ever been told that you left Seventh-day Adventism because you were hurt? Or that you left because you didn’t understand it? I suspect that if we […]
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Facing Our Former Commanders
NICOLE STEVENSON I’ll never forget the moment. It was early 2010 and I’d only recently left Adventism and discovered the true gospel. It was a quiet afternoon, and I had […]
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I Thank God for You
[NICOLE STEVENSON] Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see all the emails and comments from formers or from critics of Life Assurance Ministries (LAM). The work of preparing podcasts and writing blogs […]
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Truth is Immutable!
[NICOLE STEVENSON] “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). When I was […]
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Gardening Taught Me Truth About Fear
[NICOLE STEVENSON] I vividly remember sitting in my friend Sarah’s bedroom looking out her picture windows into the woods that surrounded her home. She was telling me how she was […]
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Come Home!
NICOLE STEVENSON Time for another true confession. In my last blog I confessed my habit of procrasti-cleaning. This time, I confess that I’m a hopeless Fixer Upper fan. I’m the […]
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“Procrasti-cleaning” To Avoid the Gospel
NICOLE STEVENSON I’m not a risk taker in obvious ways, but I tend to play “chicken” with fast-approaching deadlines. Hi, my name is Nicole and I am a procrasti-cleaner. Procrasti-cleaning […]
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We Worship God Alone
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” (Exodus 20:1,2). […]
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Trusting God With Our Loved Ones
NICOLE STEVENSON It was Saturday, January 16, 2010. In our parental exhaustion we planned to skip church that day. My husband—a natural early morning riser— was happily “on duty” for […]
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You Can Leave it Behind
NICOLE STEVENSON “And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his […]
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Anchored Only in The Word
BY NICOLE STEVENSON One of the truths that most changed my life after leaving Adventism is that the Scriptures are inerrant and worthy of absolute trust. The undeniable veracity of […]
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Interviewing the Kids of Former Adventists
This week as I was considering topics for this blog, my thoughts were interrupted by the noise of unabated laughter in the back rooms of my home. Our kids, Joshua […]
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How the Bible Convinced Me We Have Spirits
NICOLE STEVENSON Examining the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Adventism for our current series on Former Adventist Podcast has been quite the experience. I confess that preparing for these episodes often […]
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The Bible—God Was In Charge of the Words
NICOLE STEVENSON This week on the Former Adventist Podcast, Colleen and I discussed the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief about the Bible. Before discussing the specifics of their beliefs we briefly […]
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