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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Category: Authors
You Can Leave it Behind
NICOLE STEVENSON “And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable, “A sower went out to sow his […]
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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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Adventism’s Forebears Unmasked
KASPARS OZOLINS The introductory page of LeRoy Froom’s work The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers notes that the writing was “[p]repared under assignment from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, […]
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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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Adventism’s Trojan Horse
COLLEEN TINKER I had a poignant and perceptive email this week. The writer was a top student in an Adventist seminary (not in North America) when he began to look […]
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November 6–12
Lesson 7: “Law And Grace” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Moral beings need a moral law to define morality; thus the moral law existed in heaven from eternity. The […]
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Revelation 8 & 9: Wrath From Six of the Seven Trumpets
PHIL HARRIS Introduction We continue our study of Revelation by looking at chapters 8 and 9 this week. While there are many different interpretations of this book among Christians, I […]
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Are You Bought With A Price?
MARTIN CAREY It’s Friday afternoon, and you just got home from work. You step into the living room and stop to look around. There are clothes on the floor, muddy […]
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October 30–November 5
Lesson 6: “For What Nation Is There So Great?” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: It states that the Decalogue is eternal and universal. It equates not adding or taking […]
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Experiencing New Covenant Life
You Are Formed by Jesus DALE RATZLAFF Today we have hope for true transformation only by focusing on the glories of the gospel, the many declarations that God has made […]
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The Agnostic Pharisee
MARTIN CAREY When I was seven years old, I saw a Harry Anderson painting of Jesus standing over a large city, holding out His hands. It was entitled, “Christ Of […]
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October 23–29
Lesson 5: “The Stranger In Your Gates” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: It equates the restatement of the Mosaic Covenant in Deuteronomy with the idea of the “new covenant”. […]
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