My Year of Faith-Building
COLLEEN TINKER This week marks one year since Richard got his diagnosis: prostate cancer. The good news was the stage was early; the bad news was that surgery offered the […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
January 15–21
Lesson 4: “Jesus, Our Faithful Brother” COLLEEN TINKER For further study: Former Adventist Podcast “Enter Sabbath Rest Today—Hebrews 4” Problems with this lesson: The lesson presents Jesus’ destruction […]
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January 8–14
Lesson 3: “The Promised Son” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: While claiming Jesus is eternal and is God, it diminishes Him and says His work is fighting for and […]
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Your Mandate for 2022
COLLEEN TINKER Can you believe this is the second New Year we have welcomed in the time of Covid? When we all entered our first two-week “lockdown” to “slow the […]
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January 1–7
Lesson 2: “The Message of Hebrews” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author uses Hebrews 1 to affirm Ellen White’s prehistory idea that God exalted Jesus to the […]
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Christmas Security
COLLEEN TINKER This Christmas season I am impacted by the way God brought the world’s attention to the end of the law and the revelation of the new covenant. Through […]
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December 25–31
Lesson 1: “The Letter to the Hebrews and To Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with the lesson: The author ignores the occasion for this epistle: the recipients of Hebrews “were being […]
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December 18–24
Lesson 13: “The Resurrection of Moses” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Jesus is NOT Michael the Archangel; Michael defers to the Lord to rebuke Satan; Jesus rebuked Satan directly […]
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December 11–17
Lesson 12: “Deuteronomy in the New Testament” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The persistent refusal to see that the old covenant was fulfilled by the Lord Jesus, not […]
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The Incarnation: Example Jesus or Jesus the Sacrifice?
COLLEEN TINKER And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and […]
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December 4–10
Lesson 11: “Deuteronomy In the Later Writings” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author fails to see that the nation of Israel was under a specific covenant—the same […]
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November 27–December 3
Lesson 10: “Remember, Do Not Forget” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The emphasis on “Remember” is really about the Sabbath. The Sabbath application is not made in the […]
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Thank God for Turkey and Cream Cheese Frosting
COLLEEN TINKER This coming week we in the United States will celebrate our annual Thanksgiving holiday. This day is rooted deeply in our country’s early history and echoes the stories […]
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November 20–26
Lesson 9: “Turn Their Hearts” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: Limiting God’s ability to act within the paradigm of the great controversy Exaltation of man’s supposed free will and […]
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November 13–19
Lesson 8: “Choose Life” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The great controversy worldview which makes salvation about choosing to keep the law and to be “good” in order to […]
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