Adventism’s Excuse: “Present Truth”
COLLEEN TINKER We had been out of Adventism only a few years. My very Adventist parents-in-law were visiting one afternoon, and our conversation fell into a discussion of whether or […]
Read more
Category: Colleen Tinker
September 9–15, 2023
Lesson 12: “The Call to Stand” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson equates Paul’s instruction to put on and stand in God’s armor with fighting in the […]
Read more
September 2–8, 2023
Lesson 11: “Practicing Supreme Loyalty to Christ” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The biggest problem with this lesson is the underlying Adventist worldview that doesn’t understand that the […]
Read more
August 26–September 1, 2023
Lesson 10: “Husbands and Wives: Together at the Cross” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author writes without understanding the new birth and the new identity we have […]
Read more
August 19–25, 2023
Lesson 9: “Living Wisely” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson takes the texts from Ephesians 5 out of sequence to make points about good lifestyle. The significance […]
Read more
August 12–18, 2023
Lesson 8: “Christ-Shaped Lives and Spirit-Inspired Speech” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Again, the lesson attempts to instruct members to live and speak positively without understanding being born […]
Read more
August 5–11
Lesson 7: “The Unified Body of Christ” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author does not understand the impact of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling believers but admonished readers […]
Read more
Pondering the Rapture
COLLEEN TINKER As Nikki Stevenson and I have been walking through the book of Revelation in the Former Adventist Podcast, we have been bumping into questions about the rapture of […]
Read more
July 29–August 4, 2023
Lesson 6: “The Mystery of the Gospel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson again eviscerates the power of the gospel and the depth of what Paul was […]
Read more
July 22–28
Lesson 5: “Horizontal Atonement: The Cross and the Church” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Although the author says the cross is the means of Christ’s uniting Jews and […]
Read more
July 15–21
Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]
Read more
My Hairdresser Transformed!
COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]
Read more
Can I Trust God When Someone Sins Against Me?
COLLEEN TINKER Once again the correspondence we received during the past couple of weeks has yielded a subject that is so important we felt it deserved to be shared with […]
Read more