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Health Message—Tactics of Grooming and Abuse As I read Colleen Tinker’s commentary on the Sabbath School lesson in the November 17 issue of the weekly Proclamation! magazine I was struck […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
A New Covenant Needs New Words
MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]
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November 25–December 1, 2023
Lesson 9: “Mission To the Powerful” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The fact that the Sabbath School department felt the need to devote an entire week to evangelizing the […]
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November 18–24, 2023
Lesson 8: “Mission To the Needy” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson focusses directly on the issue of finding the needy and meeting their needs to the […]
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What’s Your Hermeneutic? Why Does it Matter?
COLLEEN TINKER If there is any single Adventist icon that functions as an idol, it is the seventh-day Sabbath. In fact, the Adventist arguments for Sabbath-keeping are so ingrained that […]
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November 11–17, 2023
Lesson 7: “Mission to My Neighbor” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson focusses on proselytizing non-Adventists without dealing with the gospel. The lesson describes caring for the […]
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New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”
COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]
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November 4–10, 2023
Lesson 6: “Motivation and Preparation for Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson attempts to motivate the reader to actively share Adventism to potential proselytes. This lesson […]
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October 28–November 3, 2023
Lesson 5: “Excuses to Avoid Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Once again, the real point of the story of Jonah is obscured by the fact that adventism is […]
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October 21–27, 2023
Lesson 4: “Sharing God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Abraham is represented as an example of great love for his neighbors and as an intercessor for the […]
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October 14–20, 2023
Lesson 3: “God’s Call to Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson uses Abraham as the central example of being called for “mission”, an appropriation of the […]
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October 7–13, 2023
Lesson 2: “God’s Mission to Us: Part 2” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson is another frustrating piece that uses normal-sounding Christian words, such as “mission” and “disciples” […]
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September 30–October 6, 2023
Lesson 1: “God’s Mission to Us: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s focus is encouraging individual proselytizing. The lesson is based on the paradigm of […]
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September 23–29, 2023
Lesson 14: “Ephesians In the Heart” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson diminishes the point of Ephesians by overlooking the place of the cross in God’s creating one […]
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September 16–22, 2023
Lesson 13: “Waging Peace” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson’s chief aim is to emphasize that Adventism is defined by the great controversy motif. The author’s understanding […]
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