THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #62
With Dale Ratzlaff John 16:16-22 A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.” Some of His disciples […]
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PUTTING FIRST THINGS FIRST
By Nicole Stevenson If you’re reading this blog on the day it’s published then you need to know the annual Former Adventist Fellowship Conference is convening at 9:00 AM, […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #61
With Dale Ratzlaff John 16:12-15 I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He […]
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ISAIAH 66 DOES NOT PROVE SABBATH KEEPING IN HEAVEN
By Colleen Tinker One of Adventism’s recurring arguments for keeping the Sabbath goes something like this: “How can the Sabbath have been cancelled or ended at the cross? After all, […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #60
With Dale Ratzlaff John 16:5-11 But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, “Where are You going?” But because I have […]
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HOW DO CHRISTIANS FAST?
By Phil Harris Prolog In my morning reading of Scripture I came across this passage where Jesus responds (verses 27-32) to the grumbling of the Pharisees and their scribes […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL—PART 2
By Colleen Tinker After last week’s blog addressing “spiritual Israel” and the fact that Adventism cannot be considered to be “spiritual Israel” and that the law was never required […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #59
With Dale Ratzlaff John 15:26-16:4 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, […]
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WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
By Colleen Tinker Occasionally we receive letters from former Adventists who still argue that the Sabbath was a holy day set apart at creation for all humanity. They sometimes […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #58
With Dale Ratzlaff John 15:18-25 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world […]
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I WAS DEAD BUT NOW I LIVE
By Kaspars Ozolins There is a passage from Scripture that has become something of a life verse for me in the time that I have been a born-again Christian: Galatians […]
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“KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS!”
By Margie Littell People tell me to “keep the commandments”. This command leaves me a bit uncertain, so let’s be specific: which commandments? Old commandments or new commandments? I […]
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WE DO NOT KEEP THE NINE
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received an email asking a question we hear quite frequently. This is the email: Since leaving Adventism I have had a sense of peace […]
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THAT YOU MAY BELIEVE #57
With Dale Ratzlaff John 15:12-17 This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one […]
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ADVENTISM KEEPS A PHYSICAL SABBATH
By Colleen Tinker In December, the Adventist Review completed its seven-month series, Digging Deeper of what they called Adventism’s Core Beliefs. Beginning in June the magazine featured a different Core […]
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