Devotional – Page 9 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

God Will Never, Ever Abandon Us

September 30, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

BY ROLAANT MCKENZIE Recently I read an interview of Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Bishop Schneider’s parents were Black Sea Germans from Odessa, Ukraine. After World War II, they were sent by Joseph […]

What Is True?

September 23, 2021 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Devotional, Feature

BY COLLEEN TINKER A Facebook conversation drew me in this week. The original post (written by a former Adventist) asked, in essence, how much personal discomfort and loss we would […]

Jesus Provides Certainty in an Uncertain World

September 9, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

ROLAANT MCKENZIE Open Doors, based in Ermelo, The Netherlands, is a Christian mission that supports persecuted Christians around the world by distributing Bibles and Christian literature, providing discipleship training, and […]

Raining!

August 26, 2021 Darrel Carson Darrel Carson, Devotional, Feature

DARREL CARSON It got dusty in May this year, even while there was still snow beside the road in the shady places. There we’d be, driving past the last of […]

A Woman Accused

August 26, 2021 Martin Carey Devotional, Feature, Martin Carey

MARTIN CAREY It was the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the city was crowded with festive Israelites. The feast was to remember how God had preserved their […]

Trusting in New Ways

August 19, 2021 Kelsie Petersen Devotional, Feature

KELSIE PETERSEN Last month, I wrote about the safe and convenient “box” that Adventism provides. It is a neat and tidy place to be, one that provides all the answers as […]

One Blood, One Family in Jesus Christ

August 12, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

ROLAANT MCKENZIE Many years ago, I was listening to a morning news, commentary, and opinion radio show when a man calling himself Davey called in to give his opinion on […]

Interviewing the Kids of Former Adventists

August 5, 2021 Nicole Stevenson Devotional, Feature

This week as I was considering topics for this blog, my thoughts were interrupted by the noise of unabated laughter in the back rooms of my home. Our kids, Joshua […]

How the Lord Broke Through My Pride

July 15, 2021 Darrel Carson Darrel Carson, Devotional, Feature

DARREL CARSON “I go to church over there,” I said, pointing to the little white church nestled among the trees on the other side of the field. “You worship the […]

There Is a New Country!

July 8, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

ROLAANT MCKENZIE In Peter Jackson’s 2003 movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the Dark Lord Sauron sent an enormous force of […]

Intervention for a Frightened Father

July 1, 2021 Martin Carey Devotional, Feature, Martin Carey

MARTIN CAREY When we are confronted with difficult challenges that nothing prepared us to handle, how should we seek God’s guidance? We know that He has promised never to leave […]

Missing My Box

June 24, 2021 Kelsie Petersen Devotional, Feature

KELSIE PETERSEN When I think back on my years as an Adventist, I realize that Adventism gave us a framework, a rule book. A box. There was an answer for […]

Perseverance Is Never Obsolete

June 10, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

ROLAANT MCKENZIE Most Americans and Canadians probably still remember the popular anthology television series called The Twilight Zone, created by Rod Serling, which aired from 1959 through 1964, and continues […]

How Can I Know If I’m Saved?

June 3, 2021 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Devotional, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER The moment is emblazoned in my memory. Richard and I were sitting in a classroom in an Adventist church in San Diego County one Sabbath afternoon in 1996. […]

The Heavens Declare God’s Majesty

May 13, 2021 Rolaant McKenzie Devotional, Feature

BY ROLAANT MCKENZIE “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. […]