I missed out on cheeseburgers, but I found the feast!
AERIN TOUSSAINT About seven years ago, my family left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Looking back, it is amazing to remember the proud feeling I had when I could tell someone […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
Did Paul Misunderstand Jesus?
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Periodically I encounter resistance against the authority of the Apostle Paul’s epistles. This resistance comes primarily from educated people with college degrees—usually […]
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You Must Count the Cost
GREG TAYLOR | Former Adventist Pastor There is a tendency in faith communities to share the joys of the Christian life in such a way that it appears to be […]
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Word of Man or Word of God
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! We had been attending Trinity Church for close to two years. Nourished by the Bible teaching we received every week in church as well as in the […]
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The Law Fulfilled [Jesus Reveals His Mission in Matthew 5]
HAROLDO CAMACHO | Former Adventist Pastor The many references to the Law and the Old Testament in the Gospel of Matthew indicate that Matthew wrote this “Good News” with the […]
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What Are the Works of the Devil?
WILLIAM HOHMANN | Former Member, Worldwide Church of God The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God […]
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Prayers I Didn’t Know to Pray
LIVING BY THE SPIRIT WITH CORA HOLDER | Nurse Raise a shout for God, all the earth; sing the glory of His name, make glorious His praise. Selah. Come and […]
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The Nature of Man and Death
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary In her Dec 12 1844 vision, Ellen White records Jesus and her ‘winging our way upward’ in heaven, and “here we saw […]
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Why do you persist in publishing against Adventism and the Sabbath?
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Republished and edited from Proclamation!, Fall 2016 It began in the early 80’s when a small group of us organized a church […]
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My Heart is Free!
AARIKA SHEWMAKE | Story of Faith REPUBLISHED FROM PROCLAMATION!, FALL 2013 I am seventeen and the youngest of four siblings. I grew up attending a Seventh-day Adventist church since I […]
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We Can Trust the Bible
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) How does one choose the right version of the Bible? Do we choose the one that translates our favorite verses the way […]
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Is Breaking the Sabbath Breaking the Whole Law?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, SUMMER, 2016. Doesn’t James 2:10 teach that if you break the Sabbath, […]
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Christ Is The Firm Foundation
THE LIFE EXAMINED WITH CAROLYN MACOMBER | Marriage and Family Counselor This morning I woke up, and all I wanted to do was worship. All I wanted was to be […]
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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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Do Not Touch What is Unclean
ROY TINKER | Software Engineer I want to share my own testimony of the faithfulness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. I am the older son of Richard and […]
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