There is only one reason to leave
If leaving Adventism should not be about changing one’s worship practices, but if there is danger of complacently sliding into unbelief if one stays, for what reason should one leave? […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
This is how it feels to be free!
Story of Faith by DELLA GRABOW | Proclamation Contributor | Driving away from a visit with Adventist loved ones, I feel heavy. Searching for clarity, I remember there had been […]
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On the Death of My Dad
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | On Monday morning, October 15, 2001, the phone rang. Exhausted from days of anxiety and sadness and nights of staying late at the hospital, I answered […]
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Adventists Question My Faith
LIVING BY THE SPIRIT WITH PHILEMON OMWEGA ARONI | Proclamation! Contributor | On Friday, August 17, at 4 o’clock I received a team of three Seventh-day Adventist pastors in my […]
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Another Jesus
The Life Examined with CAROLYN MACOMBER | Proclamation! Magazine Contributor “The Jesus I know now is so different from the Jesus I knew as an Adventist,” said a young woman who recently […]
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Who Has the Original Blueprints?
SAMUEL PESTES | Proclamation Contributor | Who designed this building, anyway? The other day while driving we ventured upon a most unusual house that caused us to stop and gaze at it in […]
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I Am Grateful to God
Former Adventist pastor Greg Taylor wrote this article of praise for the May/June, 2008 edition of Proclamation! His journey of discovering the New Covenant and leaving Adventism for freedom in Christ […]
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Five-Fold Witness of Christ
V. STREIFLING | Proclamation! Contributor | In John 5, Jesus had just healed the invalid at Bethesda on the Sabbath, telling him “Arise, take up your bed and walk.” Because […]
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Justice: God’s Forgotten Attribute
CAROLYN MACOMBER | Proclamation! Magazine Contributor When we have been wronged or hurt we cry out for justice and restitution. It is a different story, though, when we are the ones that […]
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Easter reflections on “God with us”
BILL BORN | Pastor of Worship Ministries [2010] Note: We bring you this article which first appeared in the January, February, March, 2010, issue of Proclamation! In this week after Easter, we […]
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Singing God’s Perspective
The Life Examined with CAROLYN MACOMBER | Proclamation! Magazine Contributor I have often heard the phrase, “God’s ways are higher than ours”. I must admit I haven’t liked that phrase […]
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Redeemed From the Chains of Legalism
SHIRLEY BURTON | Proclamation! Contributor | It was Tuesday evening, and the ladies had come to my home for our weekly Bible study. We were studying To Live Is Christ—The […]
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Biblical Support Or Obscurantism?
Review of Graffiti in the Holy of Holies DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) | Having just completed the republication of Dale Ratzlaff’s Cultic Doctrine of Seventh-day Adventists, we bring […]
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In Adam or In Christ: Where Are You?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine | I sat in my eighth grade Bible class watching my teacher draw a diagram on the chalkboard. Beginning at a point on the left side of […]
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Lost but found by Jesus
ROSS COOPER | Stories of Faith | My journey began in 1991 when I was lost and I didn’t even realize it. I was a third generation Adventist pastor’s kid. […]
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