Now I Love Communion
KELSIE PETERSEN Growing up Adventist, 13th Sabbath was an exciting—yet dreadful—event. Usually there was a special program and a short sermonette instead of the regular sermon, and this was followed […]
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Category: Devotional
My Anger and Four Hard Lessons
MICHAEL PURSLEY From the get-go, let me tell you that I did not have this list in my hip pocket, far from it! This list jelled gradually as I slowly […]
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I Do Well to be Angry
MARTIN CAREY Have you ever been angry with God? Most of us have, for many different reasons. According to researcher Julie Exline, 62% of all adults have reported feeling angry […]
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Can You Be an Accidental Christian?
KELSIE PETERSEN This week I came across a video by a popular YouTuber named JP Sears who has dabbled in “spirituality” for many years, but he has always come up […]
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“I’m sorry that you were hurt in Adventism”
NICOLE STEVENSON Have you ever been told that you left Seventh-day Adventism because you were hurt? Or that you left because you didn’t understand it? I suspect that if we […]
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Are You Being Defrauded?
MARTIN CAREY “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according […]
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Sabbath Carries the Death Penalty
BEVERLY QUINN BESSADA Colleen Tinker’s recent article, “Are We Against Catholics?” was, as always, informative and enlightening, and it made me think. Once in a while, my thoughts get carried […]
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Boast in the Lord!
KELSIE PETERSEN For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it […]
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Necessary Divorce
Beyond Leaving the Adventist Pew TERRY MIRRA Divorce is an ugly word. It evokes images of fighting, legal battles, and dissension of every sort. Divorce is defined as: “total separation; […]
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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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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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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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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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I Thank God for You
[NICOLE STEVENSON] Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see all the emails and comments from formers or from critics of Life Assurance Ministries (LAM). The work of preparing podcasts and writing blogs […]
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Heaven Rules
[COLLEEN TINKER] Richard and I slowly opened bleary eyes about 3:20 AM on Monday to watch the livestream of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral service at Westminster Abbey. No one does […]
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