Do Your Children Know Jesus?
Ever since I can remember I had a picture of Jesus in my mind. Like most of my Adventist friends, I learned Bible stories and knew the heroes of faith […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
JUNE 22–28 COMMENTARY
“Turning Hearts in the End Time”—Lesson 13 By Colleen Tinker The Sabbath School lessons for this “Thirteenth Sabbath” are, on the surface, an attempt to call Adventist families back […]
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GOD SUBJECT TO LAW?
By Colleen Tinker “The Sabbath is part of God’s law, and God never changes. The Sabbath is eternal,” Adventists often argue. “The Sabbath is God’s day!” These familiar arguments […]
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JUNE 15–21 COMMENTARY
“What Have They Seen In Your House”—Lesson 12 By Colleen Tinker This week’s lesson uses God’s words to King Hezekiah when, after being healed from his disease and granted […]
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JUNE 9–14 COMMENTARY
“Families of Faith”—Lesson 11 By Colleen Tinker This week’s lesson addresses the concern of keeping one’s faith pure and living, from generation to generation, in spite of cultural traditions. It […]
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COMING OUT OF ADVENTISM HALFWAY
By Colleen Tinker “It seems you guys at the magazine did come out of Adventism,” wrote a former Adventist, “but you only came out halfway. You say you understand the […]
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DEATH IS REQUIRED
By Colleen Tinker “I never wanted this job,” I said to Richard one day as I was filing statements and keeping track of my mother’s dwindling assets as she approached […]
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MY GUILT IS CRUSHING ME!
By Colleen Tinker “Hope and joy elude me,” Angela said; “I constantly feel a sense of doom and guilt, and I don’t see a future without it. There are times […]
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DISTORTING SCRIPTURE TO STAY UNDER THE LAW
By Colleen Tinker Adventist “law arguments” die hard. No matter how clearly the Bible explains the limited scope of the Mosaic covenant and the surpassing glory of the new covenant […]
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JESUS DIDN’T COME TO ABOLISH THE LAW
• By Colleen Tinker • What are we supposed to do with Matthew 5:17,18 when we begin to learn that Jesus fulfilled the law and inaugurated a new covenant? What […]
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EASTER IS DIFFERENT
By Colleen Tinker What does Easter have to do with the new birth? I wish I had an easy way to explain why Easter is different now. I used to […]
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USING PROPER HERMENEUTICS FOR ROMANS 3:31 AND 7:21
By Colleen Tinker This week a letter to Life Assurance Ministries asked that familiar question almost everyone has faced as they begin to question Adventism. The writer said: “I have […]
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DESMOND FORD: A MIXED LEGACY
By Colleen Tinker Desmond Ford, one of the most controversial Adventist figures within the last 50 years, died on March 11, 2019. His wife Gillian announced his death on Facebook […]
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MOBILITY CART SHOWS GOD’S CARE
By Colleen Tinker “After your surgery, you can ride in one of those electric carts when we shop at Costco,” Richard said to me with a little more enthusiasm than […]
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PLEASE UNDERSTAND US!
By Colleen Tinker I’d put it off as long as I could. “Bone on bone”, my orthopedist told me at least four years ago when the pain in my left […]
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