June 4–10
Lesson 11: “Joseph, Master of Dreams” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This lesson: Again, this lesson is human-centric and presents God as one who intervenes and helps Joseph. The […]
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Glorifying and Delighting in God
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 2 The opening question of the Redeemer Catechism asks, essentially, what our reason for living is. It answers by saying we are here to […]
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Water For the Weary
DALE RATZLAFF Introduction The book of Philippians is full of the spiritual nutrients which bring joy and peace into our lives. In fact, it has been one of the chief […]
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May 28–June 3
Lesson 10: “Jacob-Israel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores God’s restating His covenant with Abraham to Jacob, the son whom God chose to receive the […]
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Revelation 14: Worship Of The Lamb
PHIL HARRIS The 144,000 Firstfruits This study, just like the others in this series, examines the passage using the grammatical-historical hermeneutic that assumes the words of the text mean what […]
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The Sabbath Obscured in the Clear Word
This article is adapted from a soon-to-be-released book by Stephen Pitcher exploring the Adventist paraphrase of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Steve demonstrates how TCW changes the meaning of […]
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How We Worship in Spirit and Truth
Part Two: Sacrificing “Potential Persons” MARTIN CAREY In the first segment of this series on the nature of man, we looked at how physicalism is at the root of Adventist […]
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Do Not Nullify the Grace of God
A Study of Galatians 2:11-22 DALE RATZLAFF I was working on a study guide for the Phoenix Former Adventist Fellowship when the deeper meaning of Galatians 2:21 impressed itself […]
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“Procrasti-cleaning” To Avoid the Gospel
NICOLE STEVENSON I’m not a risk taker in obvious ways, but I tend to play “chicken” with fast-approaching deadlines. Hi, my name is Nicole and I am a procrasti-cleaner. Procrasti-cleaning […]
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April 30–May 6
Lesson 6: “The Roots of Abraham” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author treats the call of Abraham and his journeys as a series of moral lessons instead […]
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April 23–29
Lesson 5: “All Nations and Babel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The underlying Adventist worldview is revealed in the first day’s study which says “Once again, God’s […]
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Adventist’s Sabbath Trumps Resurrection
COLLEEN TINKER Last week we received a hand-addressed envelope in the mail from someone we didn’t know. Richard opened it, and inside we found a hand-written letter and a pamphlet […]
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