January 28–February 3
Lesson 5: “Dealing With Debt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson cannot fully deal with the debt problem while promoting a false gospel that does not change […]
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Category: Authors
Facing Our Former Commanders
NICOLE STEVENSON I’ll never forget the moment. It was early 2010 and I’d only recently left Adventism and discovered the true gospel. It was a quiet afternoon, and I had […]
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January 21–27
Lesson 4: “Offerings for Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author separates offerings from tithes and makes offerings the sign of our gratitude to God. The lesson […]
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Are We Against Catholics?
COLLEEN TINKER Recently I received an email from a woman who was, it turned out, a Catholic apologist. She was a convert to her religion, and interestingly, she is also […]
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January 14–20
Lesson 3: “The Tithing Contract” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores the hermeneutical principle of prescriptive and descriptive passages. This week’s argument is based on the […]
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Martin Luther vs. Erasmus (and Adventism)
KASPARS OZOLINS Toward the end of his life, the famous German Protestant Reformer Martin Luther remarked that he would not care much if most of his theological writings were forgotten […]
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January 7–13
Lesson 2: “God’s Covenants With Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The foundation of the lesson is wrong: God’s covenants are misdefined and misapplied. The author arbitrarily […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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What is God?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 6 JORDAN QUINLEY As noted in my last article, questions 5, 6, and 8 of the Redeemer Catechism discuss God’s nature. That is, they attempt to […]
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December 31–January 6
Lesson 1: “Part of God’s Family” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The identification of God’s family is based on EGWs view of “conversion”, not on a biblical understanding […]
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Revelation 19: King of Kings and Lord of Lords
PHIL HARRIS Introduction The first five verses of Revelation 19 served as the conclusion of the previous chapter; the voice of a “great multitude in heaven”, the twenty-four elders, and […]
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Don’t Miss the King!
COLLEEN TINKER Podcasting through the book of Daniel with Nikki Stevenson has deepened my amazement this Christmas. Having just finished working through the intimidating 70-week prophecy, I’m left with an […]
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December 24–30
Lesson 14: “All Things New” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: The lesson is written on the framework of EGW’s Great Controversy requiring a physicalist worldview. The lesson […]
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He Will Make You Clean
MARTIN CAREY Some of you find yourselves living on the margins of the Christian community. You have your reasons for being on the outside, maybe painful reasons—and yet, you probably […]
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To the World, From Matthew
DALE RATZLAFF Every Christmas season we are directed back to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth in Matthew and Luke. When we review these records, both new and old insights […]
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