June 25–July 2
Lesson 1: “The Shepherd’s Crucible” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson, based roughly on Psalm 23, stresses that we can learn discipline from our hardships to grow […]
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Come Home!
NICOLE STEVENSON Time for another true confession. In my last blog I confessed my habit of procrasti-cleaning. This time, I confess that I’m a hopeless Fixer Upper fan. I’m the […]
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Does Paul Conflict with Jesus?
DALE RATZLAFF Recently, I was sitting in an audience where I heard an Adventist pastor say something to the effect that Paul had his disagreements with Jesus. Deeply disturbed, I […]
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June 18–24
Lesson 13: “Israel in Egypt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson approaches the last chapters in the story of Joseph from a technical, analytical perspective that […]
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Is Ted Wilson the Face of Adventism?
HEADER PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSEF KISSINGER © 2010 JOSEF KISSINGER, SUPPLIED BY ADVENTIST NEWS NETWORK. USED BY PERMISSION. PHOTO HAS BEEN MODIFIED. KASPARS OZOLINS The 61st session of the General Conference […]
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Ten Commandments: Only for Israel?
COLLEEN TINKERResearch by Beverly Bessada “But what about the Sabbath?” people ask us when we leave Adventism. “The Ten Commandments are the Law of God, not the law of Moses,” […]
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June 11–17
Lesson 12: “Joseph, Prince of Egypt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author trivializes the eternal themes of repentance and forgiveness by focussing on word plays and […]
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Getting Unstuck From the Sabbath
COLLEEN TINKER The Sabbath is the great sticking point for almost all of us who question Adventism. We know the arguments for Sabbath better than we know the rules of […]
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Dear Adventist, Do You Keep the Sabbath?
TRULY ADVENTIST WITH LISA WINN The Sabbath is one of the pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Ellen White says, “It means eternal salvation to keep the Sabbath holy unto the Lord.”1 […]
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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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