My Changes Explained
PAM WYCKE This essay is written as an attempt to explain the recent changes in my life that have led to my re-baptism and separation from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. […]
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December 30, 2023–January 5, 2024
Lesson 1: “How to Read the Psalms” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week we begin a new lesson quarterly entitled Psalms, and this first week focusses on “How […]
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Christmas Tree Teaches Redemption
COLLEEN TINKER “Christmas trees are pagan. We have no business celebrating Jesus’s birth with symbols of idolatry!” Many people grew up in Adventist homes where this attitude dominated Christmas. A […]
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Daniel 3: The Fiery Furnace
PHIL HARRIS Introduction In the previous chapter Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a huge statue that portrayed the sequence of the major succeeding world nations that would affect Israel from […]
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December 23–29, 2023
Lesson. 13: “The End of God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: • This lesson reveals Adventism’s tritheistic godhead and their assumed “mission”.• This lesson assumes the great controversy […]
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His Disciples Trust
MARTIN CAREY Jesus has always been able to draw a crowd. When He fed more than 5000 by the Sea of Galilee, the excited crowds followed him everywhere. This was […]
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We Got Mail
Relieved Not To Feel Crazy I left the Adventist church when I became a freshman in college and have never wanted to go back, even though I couldn’t identify exactly […]
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
COLLEEN TINKER In 2008 Richard and I experienced one of the most significant gifts God has ever given us (apart from saving us and giving us family): a two-week trip […]
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December 16–22, 2023
Lesson 12: “Esther and Mordecai” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson once again appropriates the word of God as an instruction manual for Adventist proselytizing. This week the […]
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God Gave Us the Greatest Gift of All!
MYLES CHRISTIAN Advent is probably my favorite time of the year. Every year I tend to spend quite a bit of time reflecting on Christ’s incarnation and why it deserves […]
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December 9–15, 2023
Lesson 11: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 2” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In Part 2 of “Mission to the Unreached”, the focus of the author is to teach […]
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Former Adventists Give to the Church
COLLEEN TINKER The day I first understood the new covenant changed me forever. As an Adventist I couldn’t have explained how the new covenant “worked”, although I had heard the phrase. […]
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The Cross of Christmas
SCOTT BLAKEY Think of it. That blessed night in Bethlehem has become such a well-known, oft-told story, we sometimes forget the full meaning of that night—why this seemingly humble birth […]
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December 2–8, 2023
Lesson 10: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In this lesson the agenda of Adventist evangelism reveals itself even further. The artificial divisions of […]
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We Got Mail
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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