Leave Adventists Alone
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Why do you at Life Assurance Ministries continue to bash Adventists? Can’t you just leave Adventists alone? If you […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
Separating in Order to Draw Near
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) If a person professes Jesus’ incarnation, His death, and His resurrection, why does it matter what “secondary practices” we […]
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Is There a Coming Time of Trouble?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Do you believe there is a coming time of trouble? If so, how can we prepare for it? The […]
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Wasting Time on Doctrine and Theology?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Why do you spend so much time examining doctrine and theology? Doctrine and theology are important. However, neither one […]
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How Can You Have Life Assurance?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) How can you have what you call “life assurance” when you are not keeping God’s commandments? Athorough answer to […]
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Who Is Your Husband?
Understanding Romans 7 and 8 DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) I believe that Romans 7:1-6, when fully understood within the context of Romans 7 and 8, will […]
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Is Sprinkling Good Enough?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Does a person who was baptized as an infant by sprinkling need to be re-baptized by immersion when he/she […]
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Facing Death
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Pastor Ratzlaff, don’t you ever worry about whether you are saved? You are not a young man anymore—don’t you […]
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Was Paul’s Gospel Actually Christ’s Gospel?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Can we be certain that the gospel Paul claims to have received “through a revelation of Jesus Christ” […]
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Is The Cross of Jesus a Big Deal For You?
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Why do evangelicals make such a big deal about the cross? The cross and the resurrection are God’s provision for saving humanity. […]
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This Man Receives Sinners
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) One of the easiest sections of Scripture from which a hurried pastor can craft an acceptable sermon is Luke 15. […]
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What Are New Covenant Ethics? The Ten Commandments?
CHRIS BADENHORST | Introduction In a secular sense ethics can be defined as the science of conduct. It is a systematic attempt to consider the purposeful actions of mankind so […]
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Jesus is the Firstborn
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q. In a recent conversation with a reader of Proclamation! it was stated that he did not agree with the presentation of the […]
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The Ethics of Darkness and Light
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: Can I stay in the church and “make a difference” by teaching the gospel and ignoring the practices and doctrines with which […]
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Abiding In the Word
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: How can I pray so my prayers will be answered? There is more authority and power in the word of God* than […]
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