Truth Triumphs Over Terror
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast One of the Apostle Paul’s great desires for the church was that we would be a growing people with lives shaped by the gospel. Led […]
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Seeing WITHOUT the Lens of Adventism
ANTHONY ANDREOLA | Blogger and Health Program Specialist I grew up Seventh-day Adventist. I don’t blame my parents; they believed they were obeying God by teaching me Adventism. They had been […]
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September 7–13, 2024
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
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We Got Mail
Grief For the Lost Years I wanted to thank you for emailing Proclamation! magazine to me every week. (Yeah, I know there are a lot of other people involved. Thankful […]
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Paul Teaches Us To Love
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries When I was an Adventist, the apostle Paul seemed almost out of reach. His epistles were obviously deep and theologically meaty, but I often felt […]
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Can a Believer Fall Away?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024 FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, WINTER, 2015. Doesn’t the parable of the Sower teach that a believer […]
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Safe With Our Shepherd
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Southern California has secrets. Unless a person knows her well, So Cal appears worldly and sophisticated—and indeed, she is in many ways. She has, however, […]
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August 31—September 6, 2024
Lesson 10: “The Last Days” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses Mark 12:41–44 through Mark 13:32. Here Mark recounts Jesus’s teaching about things […]
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We Got Mail
Clarity and Understanding To Leave I want to thank you for the Former Adventist Podcast.…In March of 2020 I received a transformed life through the true gospel preached…I went from […]
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My Only Comfort in Life and Death
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary My family and I recently returned home from two months away in Europe for the summer break. We […]
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Does Adventism’s health message conflict with the biblical gospel?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024 FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, SPRING, 2015. The answer is a clear “yes” and an uncertain “no”. […]
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Rescued! How God Went Deep For Me
STANLEY ROUHE | Christ-Follower and Neurosurgeon (1943–2011) This is a story about salvation—a deep-water rescue. For years I believed that salvation and the judgment were to be determined by behavior. […]
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August 24–30, 2024
Lesson 9: “Jerusalem Controversies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: More and more these lessons reveal Adventism’s downplaying of the eternal, divine authority of the Lord Jesus […]
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We Got Mail
Was Daniel Awake or Asleep? I do not mean to be a “picky” reader, but I have a question. I read Phil Harris’ article on Daniel 7:1-14 with great interest. He […]
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Daniel 7:1–14: The Ancient of Days
PHIL HARRIS | Seeker of Truth Introduction In the book of Daniel, chapter 7 and onward, Daniel records visions that were given directly to him by God. In the whole of chapter […]
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