LOOKING AROUND THE TABLE
By Colleen Tinker They say that Thanksgiving is the most-travelled holiday of the year. Even though Christmas is perhaps the most sentimental holiday, Thanksgiving is the celebration that gets […]
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BEWARE OF BABYLON: ADVENTISM’S SIXTH CORE BELIEF EXAMINED
By Colleen Tinker This month the Adventist Review is presenting its sixth “core belief” of Adventism in its “Digging Deeper” series. While Adventism has 28 Fundamental Beliefs, the Review […]
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WE SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE
By Colleen Tinker People always have opinions about what we at Life Assurance Ministries should say when we talk about Adventism, and many do not hesitate to tell us […]
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DON’T TOUCH THE UNCLEAN THINGS
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received a letter asking a good question about “unclean things”. The whole subject of unclean meats and other foods marginalized by the Adventist health […]
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JUDGMENT: THE CORE OF ADVENTIST BELIEFS
By Colleen Tinker This month the Adventist Review has released its fifth of seven podcasts and clusters of articles expounding on what they call “the core beliefs of Seventh-day […]
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ARE YOU A DISHONEST ADVENTIST?
By Colleen Tinker When I was still an Adventist, I believed that I saw the flaws of the organization and that I had divorced myself from the historic, cultic […]
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“HELP! MY FIANCE IS AN ADVENTIST!”
By Colleen Tinker A couple of months ago, we received an email from a Christian woman who was engaged to an Adventist. They had dated for two years, and […]
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GRIEVING DIFFERENTLY
By Colleen Tinker This week is surreal—my mother just died. She’s been on hospice care, and we have known that she is declining steadily, but last week on her […]
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THE SOURCE OF ADVENTISM’S PHYSICAL GOD
By Colleen Tinker Last week’s blog, “Does God Have a Body?” generated a surprising number of responses, some of which were posted online and others which came via email. […]
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DOES GOD HAVE A BODY?
By Colleen Tinker Again this week I’m sharing a response to a letter we received a couple of weeks ago. The letter asked very good questions about the Trinity—questions […]
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DEBUNKING ADVENTISM’S DEATH DOCTRINE
By Colleen Tinker “Death” is the featured topic this month in the Adventist Review’s seven-part “Digging Deeper” series of articles addressing core Adventist beliefs. The first three topics were […]
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON LEAVES OUT GOSPEL
By Colleen Tinker Reading this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons on the book of Acts has reminded me why that book seemed so dull to me as an Adventist. I […]
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ADVENTISM MAKING THEIR PROPHET LOOK GOOD
By Colleen Tinker Over the past ten years, online searches for information about Ellen White have yielded more results from non-sympathetic sources than from Adventist sources. The White Estate […]
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON PERVERTS THE GOSPEL
By Colleen Tinker This week’s Sabbath School lesson purports to teach Paul’s second missionary journey. Because it cannot contradict traditional Adventist doctrine, however, the lesson perverts two significant passages […]
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THE DANGER OF CLINGING TO THE LAW
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received a thoughtful letter from a former Adventist who had been watching a sermon online, unaware at first that the speaker was from the […]
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