September 7–13, 2024
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
August 31—September 6, 2024
Lesson 10: “The Last Days” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses Mark 12:41–44 through Mark 13:32. Here Mark recounts Jesus’s teaching about things […]
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Does Adventism’s health message conflict with the biblical gospel?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024 FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, SPRING, 2015. The answer is a clear “yes” and an uncertain “no”. […]
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August 24–30, 2024
Lesson 9: “Jerusalem Controversies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: More and more these lessons reveal Adventism’s downplaying of the eternal, divine authority of the Lord Jesus […]
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Library of Congress Responds to “The Desire of Ages” Myth
Letter to the United States Library of Congress Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540-4660 Dear Librarian, I was recently told at a Seventh-day Adventist prophecy seminar […]
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Adventism Can’t Solve the Real Problem
MYLES CHRISTIAN | Host, Answering Adventism For those coming out of the Seventh-day Adventist movement, detangling from the theological cobwebs can be a laborious chore. Like a cobweb, the fingers of Adventist […]
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The Big Deal About Antiochus Epiphanes
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Why make such a big deal out of Antiochus Epiphanes and Daniel 8:14? I have received many wide-ranging responses […]
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August 3–9, 2024
Lesson 6: “Inside Out” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with they lesson: This week’s lesson covers Mark 7 through Mark 8:21—a passage which includes the accounts of the disciples’ […]
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Unpacking My Adventist Brain
KELSIE PETERSEN | Contributor and a Boy-Mom Over the past couple of months, I’ve had the great pleasure of reconnecting with someone I knew briefly in my years as an […]
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July 27–August 2, 2024
Lesson 5: “Miracles Around the Lake” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is the fifth in the Sabbath School quarterly entitled simply, Mark. The […]
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12. Isaiah, Revelation, and the Eternal Sabbath
JERRY RECTOR | Physician A last Sabbath argument comes from the last chapter of Isaiah. In fact, the last few chapters are devoted to the promise of heavenly redemption, the New Jerusalem, […]
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11. What About James and the “Royal Law”?
JERRY RECTOR | Physician A favorite Sabbath text, used by the late Adventist television evangelist George Vandeman and others is in James 2. The context of this passage is a warning against […]
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False Abraham Created By Ellen White
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Growing up in a progressive Adventist household, I was not raised to read the writings of Ellen G. White. While she was […]
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10. Hebrews and the Old Covenant Shadows
JERRY RECTOR | Physician Hebrews is the last scriptural area that I want to cover. It is directed to Jews, obviously, and uses familiar Old Covenant terminology to establish Jesus with the […]
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June 29–July 5
Lesson 1: “The Beginning of the Gospel” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This new quarter’s lessons focus on the Gospel of Mark and are written by […]
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